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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 retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019.

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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here?

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. ” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. Is it the patient? Eric: Wait, county 911?

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. And I was an internal medicine resident. One of the patients I spoke to really said this quite well. I heard this loud click. I couldn’t move any of my body.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? And a lot of my patients at that time identified as older asian immigrant. question used to screen for domestic violence.