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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

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The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). I would say it’s probably the most measured physiologic parameter and strangely still one of the least understood, especially in older adults with multiple chronic conditions.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. There were a lot of those kinds of recommendations being made, and then the nurse and social worker would actually help the patient make the initial contact, make an appointment, whatever it is they need to do, and would follow up with them on how it went.