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Optimizing participation in the OECD PaRIS Project: Lessons learned in Saskatchewan [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Eligibility criteria involved PCPs (family physicians and/or nurse practitioners) who facilitated a panel of patients; and PWLE who were 45 years of age or older, with or without a chronic condition, and who had documented appointments with an eligible PCP in the past six months.

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Traditional vs. Subscription Primary Care Payment Model: Which Fits You?

Plum Health

Think of it like a gym membership but for healthcare: you pay a flat fee that typically covers all your basic primary care needs, which often includes regular check-ups, minor procedures, and even certain diagnostic tests. This flat fee covers most basic care needs, so it can make budgeting easier and keep healthcare costs predictable.

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

GeriPal

And our next guest is Amy Linsky, who’s a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor at Boston University University. Were we able to activate patients to be more engaged in their healthcare and healthcare decisions? They have a lot of chronic conditions.

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

GeriPal

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And nurses and other healthcare practitioners knew nothing about it. Over-the-counter hearing aids: What will it mean for older Americans?

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

But I think people would have an embolic event if you gave them a flipping range. The chart that I have in my book and that I use in practice and so many healthcare systems have adopted already, is the very best, cutting edge data we have. You take their age, their gender, you take their chronic conditions.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Today we largely focus on reasons for caution, including: We know almost nothing about psychedelics in older adults – only about 1% of patients in published trials were older adults, much less older adults with multiple chronic conditions, multiple medications, and frailty. There is a marked lack of diversity in published trials.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

And often patients are told there’s no cardiovascular problem, you don’t have heart failure, you’re older, or maybe it’s from another chronic condition or. If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events.