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Nested order panels for primary care medication and laboratory orders: adoption and impact on ordering efficiency [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Electronic health record (EHR) order preference lists and order sets potentially improve efficiency but have limited utility in complex primary care settings. nurse practitioners and physician assistants). A one-time survey was also conducted. Setting: Primary care clinics partnered with an academic health center.

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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

Temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens physicians , nurse practitioners (NPs) , physician assistants (PAs) , and dentists travel across the country to work short- and long-term assignments at healthcare facilities that are short-staffed.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Lexy: Well, so no.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

Randy died February 26, 2023. Should it be decreased utilization, decreased use of CPR? There’s what matters to the healthcare systems that put this together, which includes some of your secondary outcomes like utilization, because every intervention costs some money. Randy Curtis was first author of the JAMA paper.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. So we came out with a report in March of 2023, followed it on the heels of a report that we had done in November, 2022. And guess what?