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

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MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. Eric: VA people will know what that is. David: Yeah. It used to be a much more complicated model. Eric: Okay. David: They were not.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades. What do we know about.

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

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We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. Because pre-pandemic, right, there was issues with you had to be boarded in the state, right? I would expect that the DEA or the state medical boards would be looking at volumes of prescriptions.