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Evaluation of Primary Care Provider Utilization by Asthma Patients after the Implementation of Coach McLungsSM [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: An urban pediatric emergency department in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, that serves a low-income, high-minority community. Outcome Measures: Emergency department utilization, hospitalization, steroid prescriptions, and primary care provider (PCP) utilization. to 0.08, p=0.44), 5% to 2% ([95%]CI -0.03

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How to Improve Care for Patients With Multiple Chronic Conditions

Physician's Weekly

For example, many population health management tools can run reports that identify patients who: Have not been seen by their PCP in a year (and thus aren’t engaged in their care or completed preventive exams). Communicate clearly with appropriate non-clinical staff. So, patient communication is equally vital.

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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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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

GeriPal

So that would be palatable to the community that I could look at, whether we were over-screening those 80 and older. They were hospitalized but something comes up about mammography screening and it can be really quick. And so we recruited 546 women and they were from 137 different PCPs. And so then they saw their PCP.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. So the patient gets gabapentin prescribed from their surgeon, they see their PCP, they have a list of medications, and they all get renewed, get represcribed. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nisha. Happy to be here.