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CDC Proposes Updating Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Warning Against Continued Misapplication

FDA Law Blog

It is intended for clinicians (primary care, physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and oral health practitioners) who provide pain care to outpatients aged 18 years or older with acute pain (lasting less than a month), subacute pain (lasting 1-3 months) or chronic pain (lasting more than 3 months) in outpatient settings.

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

GeriPal

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. No, no, no.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about â…“ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

In fact, no one in this hospital died that was not on comfort care. And of the ER screening program, I’ve seen 266 people, 266 goals of care conversations in the ER, which were pretty significant. We have lost so many nurses. We are a community-based hospital. Pretty … Just all things, right?