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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. By filling vacancies in critical positions, temporary medical staff help maintain essential service and ensure continuity of patient care.

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

GeriPal

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. Ethical and practical. I guess those are the questions.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? He was an otolaryngologist and epidemiology person too, might have an appointment in geriatrics too. Think about the last time you attended a talk on communication skills or goals of care discussions.

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

GeriPal

I treat patients with acute leukemias and related diseases, so I kind of know some of this from my own clinical practice. We put a couple extra things in place to really try to reschedule appointments, and this was telehealth. Getting the appointments for outpatient palliative care was a challenge, it sounded like.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Eric 18:39 Yeah, I do worry a little bit because I recently had a primary care appointment. Whereas if you look at function, if someone comes in and tells me, I am struggling with remembering things that just happened to m e?

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. We’ve all been taught through fellowship or through clinical practice about how to assess pain. You can listen to our prior podcasts on substance use disorder here , here , here , and here.