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Need to See a Doctor Fast? Here’s How Urgent Care Could Save Your Day

Plum Health

Life happens fast, and sometimes, so do medical issues. These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. There’s a common misconception that urgent care is just a “lesser” version of the ER, but that’s not the case.

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

FDA Law Blog

As explained more fully below, CDC concedes that states, insurers, pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers have implemented laws, regulations and policies that have misapplied the 2016 guideline. Clinicians should use noninvasive, nonpharmacologic approaches to help manage chronic pain. (b) 7,838 (Feb. Methodology.

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

FDA Law Blog

They do apply, however, to prescribing for pain management upon discharge. The 2022 guideline, as with the 2016 guideline, reiterates that it does not apply to pain management related to sickle cell disease or cancer-related pain treatment, palliative care and end-of-life care.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. Management, it’s hard. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren.

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

GeriPal

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? So we know these patients are really, really sick.

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

GeriPal

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. You’re short on nurses and nurse aids so now you have to help deliver meals.”.

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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. By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. And that’s more standard.

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