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Permanente Live webinar — Finding success in value-based care

Permanente Medicine

This complimentary virtual event will feature a candid, strategic conversation with national health care leaders as they share their insights and best practices from proven value-based care models to help health systems, physician groups, and health plans navigate this critical transformation. .” PT / 11:30 a.m. CT / 12:30 p.m.

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Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Aspiring Minority Doctor

In the event you are unsuccessful at extending your graduation date or securing an internship position, options for practicing medicine tend to become severely limited. After extending your graduation date, the year can be utilized as a research year that can help you enhance your application and build further connections.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. How do we move on? She had been included. But we have to.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. So it’s not that great when someone’s acutely hospitalized.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

Medical societies and hospitals are weighing in on periprocedural concerns in patients taking GLP-1s who need procedures or surgeries. That’s according to two internists who work closely with hospitalized patients who take GLP-1s. “I would not recommend starting a GLP-1 in the hospital.” Nor should they be.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

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.