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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

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COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard. I don’t like this anymore.” Alex: Great story.

IT 102
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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. Mike, you’re nodding your head no. Mike: Scale is a business concept. So, it’s a building problem.

Finance 95
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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

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At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. We didn’t make them communicate it, but we focused them on it, which makes them more likely to then utilize that information. I think it’s good to place nudges in context.