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Emergency Room vs. Urgent Care

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

When sudden illness or injury strikes, knowing whether to head to the emergency room or an urgent care clinic can make all the difference—both in terms of your health and your wallet. When To Go To the Emergency Room (ER) Emergency rooms are typically part of hospitals, and generally are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Risk of Acute Rhinosinusitis Progression Based on Duration of Symptoms, Method of Care, and Setting of Care [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

Patients were recruited from primary care practices, emergency rooms and urgent care centers, and the community (e.g., Patients recruited in primary versus urgent care clinics had similar rates of progression to ARS, but the community rate was lower (69% vs 65% vs 45%, p=0.085). recruitment flyers).

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

The vaccines were 75% effective in preventing emergency room or urgent care visits, and 75% effective against hospitalization, both among those ages 60 to 74 and those older. A connection to dementia will require further research, and Geldsetzer is trying to raise philanthropic funding for a clinical trial.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings. What is primary care?

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

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. Sarah 06:23 It’s just me.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

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. Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?” And great song choice: Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

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