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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. Yeah, yeah.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And so the metrics kind of spoke for itself. That’s really important.