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Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

Though severe weather events like this used to feel like a ‘once in a decade’ tragedy, they are, statistically speaking, becoming more and more common. Should recent weather events impact your emergency fund? Should recent weather events impact your emergency fund? It happens. What Can We Learn From This?

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. In Kaiser Permanente here, we exist to provide high-quality, affordable health care for our patients in the communities we serve.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

Many were community hospitals. The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. And the nudges were focused on two areas of communication, one prognostication, in which we asked the clinicians.

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Better Late Than Never – Unpacking FDA’s Highly Anticipated (and Long Overdue) Draft Guidance on Diversity Action Plans

FDA Law Blog

This could be based on differential pharmacokinetics (“PK”) or pharmacodynamics (“PD”), possible differences in susceptibility to specific adverse events of concern, or due to differential presentation of the disease or condition. by sex, age or by genetic variations). socio-economic status, geographic location, comorbidities).

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Utilizing Community Outreach Workers to address COVID-19 Misinformation [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

The University provided guidance on how to recruit youth ambassadors, train community members and staff to accomplish the goals of the project, to decrease the vaccine hesitancy rate and increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among youth through education/outreach from respected individuals and organizations from local communities.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

And so for pt, we’re generally focused on assistance with transfers, providing assistive devices to help people maintain independence with ambulation, doing stairs, leaving their homes, getting into the community, but really focusing on symptom management. And oh, guess what? Are there any tools? Do we have any data?