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Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. We determined personal adherence rates by calculating the mean adherence rates of the medications prescribed to each individual. The mean age was 81.2

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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. series The Pitt has drawn praise for its unflinching portrayal of the ED, including a widely discussed episode in which a patient’s family member violently assaults a nurse. The Warner Bros.

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Traditional vs. Subscription Primary Care Payment Model: Which Fits You?

Plum Health

Emergency and Specialty Care Costs If you need specialized care or end up in the emergency room, traditional primary care linked with insurance may cover some of these costs after you meet your deductible.

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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

Physician's Weekly

More than a year after her riding accident, Diamond was back at the emergency room after she tripped on a step while entering a New York restaurant. In those instances, Medicare pays first if they or their family member works at a company with fewer than 100 employees. The bill for that care: $12,000.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

What should we use to screen individuals? Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis.

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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

DDI exposures were considered incident if the individual was not exposed to a DDI in the year preceding cohort entry. 2) Hazard ratio for an adverse event (emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death). or 7,498/63,834 individuals in the cohort were exposed to at least one high-priority DDI over 12 months in 2015-2016.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

If they didn’t do it all by themselves, they talked to the family and it was a conversation, but also there wasn’t a whole lot that doctors can do then. And that changed in 1969 I think the first advanced directive was created by Luis Kutner. Bernie: Well, there was a time when doctors made these decisions.

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