Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. Understanding Its Role in Healthcare Urgent care clinics are designed to handle non-life-threatening situations that still require timely medical attention.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. It's a common challenge many people face.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

Medical Respite Care : Mr. Watts advocated for medical respite, a safe place to heal and “short circuit” the street-emergency room-street-emergency room cycle as a way to treat people experiencing homelessness who are not sick enough for inpatient service, but too sick to send back out to the streets, only for their sickness to worsen.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 2, 2024

These facilities offer a wide range of medical services, from treating minor injuries to managing chronic conditions, without the long wait times and hefty price tag of an emergency room. Understanding Urgent Care Centers Think of urgent care as your neighborhood medical clinic on steroids.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Some family doctors choose to do a fellowship and are trained more specifically to do more advanced surgical procedures, deliver babies (including C-sections), work on public policy and advocacy, work in an emergency room, and the list goes on. Other family doctors only see patients in their clinics.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. That put me in the emergency room. I’d been a nurse at the time, and I went back to do my clinicals in an oncology clinic locally. They just kept at it.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. And so I was driven by the fact that I needed more information, and so it sort of became my clinical focus as well as I dabble in the research.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. These were clinically significant and statistically significant improvements. Emergency rooms. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. Why is that important in the emergency room? And then we had clinical decision support.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. Now as I understand it, you and Dr. Widera talked in clinic about this and that. Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?” Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Gretchen: Yeah, I think probably the underlying story here is that I’m really good at doing negative randomized clinical trials, but there is a good thing about doing a big clinical trial, which is that you get tons of data even if you don’t end up with the result that you want. And that’s how we connected.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And when I was getting my PhD, I wanted to find something that spoke to me, and I had been doing clinical work in nursing homes. A lot of assisted livings, it’s acted like it’s not even a choice, that it’s usually the default is you go to the emergency room.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

It isn’t the randomized trials, which are very important, obviously, for the work that all of us do, the work that I do clinically. So, for example, in my essay, I initially used the phrase emergency room, and JAMA said, “We use emergency department.” ” So very minimal changes. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And it’s really interesting because if you look at other studies like using other cohorts, like one out of Canada and they’ve used the clinical frailty scale, they have similar like Kaplan Meier Curves where it’s the really frailty that’s driving that risk of mortality and frailty, we’re not seeing it as much.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Scientific Evidence of Marijuana’s Pharmacological Effects, If Known HHS found that marijuana abuse can lead to negative consequences that include addiction and the need for medical attention through poison center calls or emergency room visits. Basis at 18; NPRM at 44,605. Basis at 24. NPRM at 44,607. Basis at 7-8; NPRM at 44,614.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. And then, the system responds in turn.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. And that’s just one example of how, especially when you’re on the clinical side, talking about it as a science and talking about it to scientist pain is very, very clean.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. We do a lot of clinical focused discussions. We shouldn’t be screening every older age and adult who comes into our clinic about these incidents for different reasons.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. Like, should we be doing advance care planning? What’s the evidence behind it? Should we throw it out?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

And that’s where, based on this, I made a decision to leave University of North Carolina to come to Indiana University because my mentor, Chris Callahan, just received the grant from AHRQ to build the first randomized clinical control trial that evaluated the comprehensive dementia care model. ” Diane: Fantastic. And guess what?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience. Bruce: Sure.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Does this issue ring true to you clinically? In your clinical, everyday reality, this comes up and say, like, does this ring true to you from your work in the icu, from your work with patients? But more and more patients end up in emergency rooms and ICUs and they’re unrepresented. Teva, I want to go to you.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

They rushed to the emergency room, fearing a dangerous bowel impaction. For Prader-Willi, two other notable phase 3 clinical trials are underway, led by Acadia Pharmaceuticals and Aardvark Therapeutics, each targeting different pathways. That future may already be taking shape. medical research funding.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. Our national record for health care during the covid pandemic emergency was second to none. Our women’s clinics are not plagued by political ideology.

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