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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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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. Eric: And who are the patients including in this trial, again? Kate: These are very sick patients. And that’s it. Kate: Sure.

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

GeriPal

” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room. And how oftentimes the perception that this is supposed to be good quality care. Nursing homes are subsidized by their Medicare, by their rehab patients.