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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

Temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens physicians , nurse practitioners (NPs) , physician assistants (PAs) , and dentists travel across the country to work short- and long-term assignments at healthcare facilities that are short-staffed. Bring specialized skills that might be otherwise lacking among permanent staff.

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

GeriPal

However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. Were these palliative care trained nurses and social workers? Lyndsay: That’s a great question. Eric: VA people will know what that is. David: Yeah. Eric: Okay.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

He created fee for service, special fee for depression. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. And when we made that with David and other, we talk with Jürgen Unützer. Malaz: Yeah.