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Comparing impact of a holistic patient centered navigation model to an online navigation service on health care utilization [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Social prescribing has been linked to better access, improved health and wellbeing, and decreased health care utilization (HCU). The odds ratio (95 CI) of ARC relative to 211 for ER visits was 0.7 (0.3, in Year +1, and for hospitalizations was 1.2 (0.4, in Year 0 and 2.4 (-0.3, in Year 0 and 1.0 (-0.6,

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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.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. So for those listening to the podcast, this is a clown looking very sad and what looks like a hospital administrator. So I got back into it anonymously. That blew my mind.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org.