Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls. Setting: Safety net hospital/clinic system in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Estimates of LCS have relied on medical records which may underestimate true prevalence. Objective: This study aimed to characterize populations with COVID-19 and LCS, describes symptoms, and health care utilization by presenting symptoms. Outcome Measures: Characteristics of patients with COVID-19, LCS symptoms, and healthcare access.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum. Objective: To describe a decade-long implementation process for genomic and precision medicine embedded in a primary care community hospital network. Study design: Descriptive epidemiological and implementation methodology description.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Patients with mental health and/or SUDs disproportionately seek medical care in EDs, yet research rarely examines first-hand accounts of their experiences,” wrote study corresponding author Linda M. Embedding a psychiatric registered nurse or SUD counselor can decompress boarding and free physicians to manage medical presentations.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

In This Issue : Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Medical Waste: One Model for Improvement OnTrack with your Sustainability Goals? Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health. This isn’t just about saving the planet—it’s also about saving money, protecting patients, and strengthening our healthcare systems from the inside out.

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Sound Physicians

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

For hospitals, this means investing in cutting-edge medical interventions and partnerships that help them transition to the modern best-practice of dedicated ICU management. Led by specially trained medical, team leadership is armed with the tactical knowledge needed to drive high-quality care and highly effective practice management.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Barnes, MD, MPH: Although we seek to improve our understanding of pouchitis and other inflammatory conditions of the pouch, much of our research has focused on outcomes or medication-related studies rather than the patient experience. Patient-centered research should continue to be a focus as we seek to improve outcomes in this population.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Cato — On June 1, CDRH announced that it is seeking public comment on questions regarding how CDRH can facilitate access to medical technologies designed for use outside of traditional clinical settings, particularly in the home. This includes devices intended for use in both professional healthcare facilities and homes.”

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. These factors include a high-protein diet, muscle mass, creatinine generation, and certain medications.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

We didn’t have medications that were effective with a few side effects. So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. We’re very datified.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Wiped-out grocery stores, medications unfilled, spoiled food, hours-long lines for gasoline, and impatient citizens pulling firearms on each other, escalating tensions in an already tumultuous time. Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Some of our healthcare systems are hard, and challenging, and I think that it’s time that we have a change. I think there’s maybe a little bit of debate as to when those turn from being just normal age related changes to then being something more, but it happens in many different areas of healthcare. Eric: Lovely.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

During this episode, we gained insight from special guests Dr. Margot Kushel and Mr. Bobby Watts about what brought them into their fields, how their work reaches the most marginalized, and what can be done at the community and structural level to address homelessness. Know your community resources. Calac, Victor A.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. Essien MD, MPH, Jazzmin Williams, Alec J. Calac, Victor A. Lopez-Carmen MPH, Naomi F.

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Healthcare Utilities Hospital Internal Medicine 52

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

To address the growing demand for health care services combined with workforce shortages, utilizing health care innovations that improve patient health and restore the joy in medicine for physicians and clinicians is more essential than ever. And utilization is expected to grow as the number of Americans who are 65 and older is expected to.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To determine if there are differences in HPV vaccine uptake among children and adolescents in community-based healthcare organizations by ethnicity and country of birth, stratified by sex. It remains uncertain how ethnicity and country of birth relate to HPV vaccination among younger Latinos.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Identify realistic solutions to drug policy reform that promote health equity among marginalized communities living in the United States. Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As the 2025 legislative session swings into full gear, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has set its sights on a cadre of pivotal bills set to shape the healthcare landscape for years to come. Chip Brown, HB 2 proposes a change to existing law regarding the consent process for medical procedures involving minors.

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Insurance Management Hospital Vaccination 130

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Alex: We are honored to be joined by Barbara Jones, who is professor and associate dean for Health Affairs at the School of Social Work at UT Austin and chair of the Department of Health Social Work at Dell Medical School. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Barbara.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. There were rules a little bit, because the healthcare system likes to have some level of consistency as people move in. Jane: Right.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And we have Scott Halpern, who is Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center or Payer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. So now it’s just POLST, the word POLST, Portable Medical Orders. Hey, it’s National POLST Collaborative now. Good to know.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Eric 04:27 Yeah, I gotta ask about the community advisor. So I don’t want my Marin community to.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Very excited to be here. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Nathan: I have drawn for my entire life, but I gave up cartoons because I thought I had to during medical school and residency. But if you look at my lecture notes from medical school, it’s just plastered with cartoons and doodles. And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. Nathan: Yeah.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 9, 2024

Tobolowsky & Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Sarah Wicks & Deborah L. DAP Content In developing DAPs, the Draft Guidance recommends that sponsors consider whether certain demographic groups may have a different response to a medical product regarding either effectiveness or safety. 360j(g)(9)(A)).

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. There’s also been some differences in things like staffing.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

When we protect our kids from the dangers of gun violence, the whole community stands to benefit. I’m Dr. Carney and I am a pediatric resident at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. In our current environment, it can feel overwhelming as a healthcare provider to discuss firearms. Children’s Defense Fund.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And assisted living doesn’t offer the same level of medical supportive services as nursing homes. So it’s, you know, nursing homes are part of the healthcare sector, but they’re also part of the social care sector in the same building. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

None of the changes that we saw in end-of-life care processes relied on specialist palliative care increases or resources, which is really important because seven of the 10 hospitals that participated were rural or community-based, which is where most Americans receive their care, and also where specialist palliative care is often most limited.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. But, what you need is a community-based game there. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. You go back home.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Disruptive events are medical, surgical. And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event. But we all know intuitively as clinicians and as people in the community, we see people have these events and then we see them have a much faster decline after that. In the community? I have no idea what that is.

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