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Dedicated ICU management: Navigating the transition

Sound Physicians

Led by specially trained medical, team leadership is armed with the tactical knowledge needed to drive high-quality care and highly effective practice management. Sound clinicians also solely practice ICU care. Our dedicated training focuses on improving key ICU quality factors.

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Corporate Liability from Employee Diversion: Costly on Many Fronts

FDA Law Blog

The government alleged that Sovah failed to conduct a full physical inventory during this period which would have identified the pharmacy tech’s diversion exploiting that a non-utilized location was still in the computer system. DEA regulations require “adequate security” but do not specially require cameras in health care facilities.

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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

There is a special emphasis on the use of public health models that prioritize harm reduction and person-centered care to prevent drug-related fatalities and curb the opioid epidemic along lines of race and class.

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

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

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.