My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually. And yet, the global health sector receives less than 1% of all climate adaptation finance. We must transform healthcare into a frontline responder for climate resilience. Alcayna et al.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare Finance Education 52

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

It does seem that if communities, particularly historically marginalized communities, are interested in ACP, that fact should carry some weight in how resources are allocated to research and health care financing. So am I measuring it for that specific clinic level quality metric or am I measuring it for my research study?

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. As Sei Lee notes, the argument for developing prognostic models has won the day, and we increasingly use prognostic scores in clinical decision making.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Tsai-Chin 01:02 Thank you.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93