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Need to See a Doctor Fast? Here’s How Urgent Care Could Save Your Day

Plum Health

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. That’s where urgent care comes in—a middle ground that’s convenient, affordable, and effective. Why Choose Urgent Care?

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Exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec: a cohort study [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Prescribing is the most-used intervention in primary care, and most prescriptions are issued in primary care. 2) Hazard ratio for an adverse event (emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death). Outcome measures: 1) yearly prevalence and incidence of exposure to at least one high-priority DDI.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Regular visits to a primary care clinic can make a world of difference in your overall health. Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. This is a serious sign of airway obstruction and requires immediate care.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. And so how do we think about palliative care in those patients? They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? So this was a primary palliative care study that we’re gonna be talking about.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience.

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