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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

What’s more, a 2023 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association uncovered that one-third of the doctors surveyed considered leaving clinical practice altogether—and over 6% of the country’s doctors (more than 70,000) left medicine between 2021 and 2022, according to Definitive Healthcare.

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

Special thanks to Todd Florin, MD, MSCE who contributed to this post – he is also an expert on respiratory and infectious emergencies. Provider level factors such as newly autonomous trainees, advanced practice professionals, and clinicians with infrequent exposure to pediatric respiratory illnesses may lead to overreliance on tests.

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

GeriPal

I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. And this is, of course, an old and foundational idea about clinical practice. There’s plenty more to learn, but within the knowledge base that we currently have, we can do a lot of good for people.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. Alex: And, they were talking about how they were so annoyed because they felt like they got called so frequently by companies trying to sell them electronic wheelchairs. I’m sure we all have the same issue. Alex: Okay.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). He was the special prosecutor. The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court.

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

GeriPal

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. I treat patients with acute leukemias and related diseases, so I kind of know some of this from my own clinical practice. Eric: And how did you do that? Why another study? Tom: Yeah, I think it is different.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. And that was one of the reasons that was appealing to us is that the conversation guide and could be delivered by lay facilitators in partnership with the clinical practice.