PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Choosing Wisely Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recommendations The Choosing Wisely Campaign Toolkit Expert Contributors Kelly Levasseur, DO Children’s Hospital of Michigan Detroit, MI, USA docklevasseur@gmail.com Jennifer Thull-Freedman, MD Alberta Children’s Hospital Calgary, Alberta, Canada Jennifer.Thull-Freedman@albertahealthservices.ca

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

OUR ENTIRE FIELD of hospital medicine grew out of the need to innovate to address the growing complexities of inpatient medicine. At its core, the technology utilizes sophisticated speech recognition to transcribe a conversation in the exam room or at the bedside. That’s the essence of ambient dictation.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults? Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Choosing Wisely Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recommendations The Choosing Wisely Campaign Toolkit Expert Contributors Olivia Ostrow, MD Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ontario, Canada olivia.ostrow@sickkids.ca for bronchiolitis and 1.5% antivirals for influenza) or public health recommendations (e.g., isolation for SARS-CoV-2).

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

They carry existing diagnoses and are followed by outpatient mental health providers. In those without psychosis, those with likely psychosocial issues, especially those with a prior history of psychiatric diagnoses, and with reassuring history and exam, lab tests are not necessary to exclude a medical condition. Health Aff (Millwood).

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. and consulting for Papa Health. This is 24,000 encounters, over 15,000 patients, 11 hospitals, eight states.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. What does “early” really mean?

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