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

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These are patients who had a pre-existing chronic disease, very broadly defined. COPD, heart failure, solid oncology, hematologic malignancy, dementia, ALS, interstitial lung disease, several others. It’s complicated because right now there’s no mechanism other than cost avoidance. Kate: Sure. Eric: Okay.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

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But the HIV we do see, and it feels tragic because the people who are dying of and affected by the more kind of traditional, if you call it that, kinds of complications, some of which can be fatal of HIV AIDS are the people who are not on treatment. Older adults may not have received AIDS education. Meredith 17:07 Yes.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers. Annals of Int Med. This is Eric Widera.

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