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Enhancing Advanced Access in Primary Healthcare: Key Change Strategies from a Quality Improvement Initiative [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

These are related to shaping healthcare supply to patients’ demand by 1) providing an individual assessment of caseload size to all physicians and nurse practitioners (professionals with whom patients are affiliated; and 2) reinforcing communication in the appointment scheduling process.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. Do they need a palliative care doctor, nurse practitioner? A lot of times the nurse practitioners indicated that the staff were very task focused.

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

GeriPal

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Eric: And Alex, we got a full house today. Ruth: Sure.