Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

JULY 1, 2025

When sudden illness or injury strikes, knowing whether to head to the emergency room or an urgent care clinic can make all the difference—both in terms of your health and your wallet. If you have a cold, respiratory infection, bladder infection, or other health issue that can be treated without hospital care, then you need urgent care.

Emergency Room 52

Emergency Room ER Family Medicine DO 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. We retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019.

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Diabetes ER Medical 130

StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Suddenly, my job as an ER physician was boring. Not only Emma, but soon my friends and family were asking if I did "the stuff that Dr. Pimple Popper does." I know there are many more invasive procedures we perform in the ER that could be considered similar, but I couldn't think of them quickly enough. Yes, the ER gets busy.

IT 100

IT ER Patient-Centered Patients 100

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: Quebec administrative health databases containing de-identified prescription drug claims, ER visits, hospitalizations, and medical acts held by the National Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS) were used. 2) Hazard ratio for an adverse event (emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Emergency Room ER Insurance 130

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

We are fortunate to have Tammie Quest, emergency and palliative trained and long a leader in this space, to help us unpack and contextualize these findings. Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115