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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Likewise, training healthcare professionals on vaccine information alone has not been found to improve vaccine uptake. Standing orders allow healthcare professionals to administer vaccines according to a protocol approved by a supervising authorized practitioner and have demonstrated improved vaccine uptake.

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

These geographic constraints highlight a significant limitation of traditional permanent staffing models, which often struggle to attract and retain healthcare professionals in rural and underserved areas. Locum tenens providers can even be brought on on short notice, meaning you’ll never be caught off guard again.

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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

By strategically utilizing temporary medical professionals, typically through partnering with healthcare staffing agencies such as Barton Associates, healthcare facilities can address immediate staffing needs while also gaining time to develop long-term recruitment and retention strategies for permanent staff.

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

GeriPal

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. Is that right?

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

BMJ

Two hundred seventy-six of the healthcare professionals were reached (response rate: 85.4%). Univariate relationships between COVID-19 vaccination intention and sociodemographic variables are shown in Table 1. A sample was not selected as it was aimed to reach all 323 people working in family health centers in the district.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. Eric: VA people will know what that is. David: Yeah. It used to be a much more complicated model. Eric: Okay. David: They were not.