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

Doctor On Demand

Here’s a closer look at the red-flag symptoms that signal it’s time to visit urgent care for a sore throat: Severe sore throat or trouble swallowing A severe sore throat or trouble swallowing suggests you might have a more complex underlying cause needing urgent medical attention. These symptoms require immediate medical attention.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’

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