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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. So we created these heat maps where you could see for each individual what actually happened in the days and you. It’s right there.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. And that’s more standard.

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