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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

More specifically, healthcare facilities benefit from partnering with medical staff recruitment agencies to: Maintain regular appointment schedules and avoid cancellations. Bring specialized skills that might be otherwise lacking among permanent staff. Keep emergency departments and urgent care centers fully operational.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. I was at an ophthalmology appointment a while back and I was checking in and there was a receptionist, her name was Rosie.

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Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

Did they have to wait long to obtain an appointment? For example, if you need to refer your patient to another physician for specialized attention, encourage staff to do the preliminary work and make the call and appointment for the patient. or less) on an appointment card. What is it that they see?

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

GeriPal

David: Similarly informed by my clinical experience, really, actually, beginning in residency when I took care of a lot of sick folks in the hospital, particularly those with cancer and heart and lung diseases like these. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. Eric: How about you, David?

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. These were clinically significant and statistically significant improvements. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

What are your thoughts about using humor to convey ideas, thoughts, clinical work? I think that there are times when we use humor to cope, and that’s a special and very tender space for of people to share in, but is not something that you want to expose to the light of the world. I very rarely use them at the bedside.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. And by the way, we have really good reason for that because this isn’t like a prescribing clinician within a clinic or an outpatient clinic or something. Eric: Yeah. Joe: Yeah.