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Factors associated with patients' experience of access to their primary health care clinic: a multilevel analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

This study aims to examine individual, organizational, and contextual factors associated with patients’ experience of access to their multidisciplinary primary healthcare clinic. Analyses were stratified by the number of consultations in the last 12 months: between 1 and 5 or over 5 consultations. Population studied.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. That’s where we’re focusing our efforts. Tell me about that. So it’s give and take.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. Reasons why people thought about consulting palliative care. But we, we do a lot of, a lot of care in the facility. Connie 21:45 Right, right.

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” I’m not going to talk about finances.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Caroline: I’ve had a lot of n of one experiences, or just clinical experience one on one, where I’ve had to, as the geropsych consultant, encourage families and providers to stop the feeding tube. And there’s really no reimbursable system for that.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

But neither Kennedy nor President Donald Trump have explained why individual agencies such as AHRQ were targeted for cuts or indicated whether any of their work would continue. “What we’ve been doing isn’t working,” he said. Despite spending $1.9 trillion in annual costs, Americans are getting sicker every year.”