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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

Patients with the worst outcomes often lack continuity of primary care and receive care at emergency departments during exacerbations. Improved asthma outcomes are associated with effective communication between patients and providers, such as using shared decision-making. to 0.24, p=0.28). to 0.24, p=0.28).

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

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The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

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Mara Schonberg is associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. So that would be palatable to the community that I could look at, whether we were over-screening those 80 and older. Do you think most patients know that? Eric: Alex, who do we have with us today? Mara: Yeah.

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