Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: Pre-consultation telemedicine tools have been proposed as an effective solution to optimize the care of the growing number of older patients with chronic conditions. However, little information exists on how to successfully implement these tools in the primary care setting.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Though dementia can be managed in primary care, the complexity of the condition and high prevalence of multimorbidity often require advice from a variety of specialists. Travel to see consultants can be disorienting and difficult for persons living with dementia (PLWD). Context: Dementia affects nearly half a million Canadians.
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Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Interviews with ~24 staff in family medicine who offered the GP-MATE consultations. For further information see GP-MATE ( warwick.ac.uk ) Outcome Measures Our feasibility study explores suitable outcome measures for a potential trial including hospital readmission, patient experience, primary care utilization and harm/error.
Aspiring Minority Doctor
APRIL 18, 2021
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. 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.
GeriPal
JANUARY 25, 2024
David: People with these illnesses suffer from persistent symptoms, poor quality of life, depression, anxiety, despite all the great things we do and all our colleagues in those specialties and in primary care and geriatrics. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. David: Yeah. Eric: Okay.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again. I think once someone becomes kind of a high-utilizer, it’s a slippery slope. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.
GeriPal
JUNE 9, 2022
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. I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one. And I practiced both on the palliative care consult team and in the ICU.
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