Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

Digital inhalers utilizing remote monitoring data may aid in predicting and identifying early or impending exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study published in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation. So, specificity is important to focus on and develop.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

A final set of four prognosis groups were suggested using a single regression tree-based model utilizing the most informative predictors with data-driven biomarker thresholds. A total of 599 children were included; 205 (34 percent) reached the primary outcome of CKD progression.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. .”

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Streamline Referrals: Utilize technology like the Hunger Vital Signs tool and the Minnesota Food Helpline to connect patients directly to mobile food units, emergency food programs or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enrollment services. Do you have resources to share with other members?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Returning to the early literature that informs the equations reminds us that this research demonstrated racially stratified differences between Black and white cohorts. education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification. 2019;322(2):113-114. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.577

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

After extending your graduation date, the year can be utilized as a research year that can help you enhance your application and build further connections. In the event you are unsuccessful at extending your graduation date or securing an internship position, options for practicing medicine tend to become severely limited.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Running from February 4 to May 15, this session promises to bring substantial changes to medical consent laws, Medicaid coverage, rural hospital funding, taxation on essential goods, and the transparency of healthcare costs. HB 86 – Rural Hospital Investment Fund Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

’ Though it often does not come with the attending salary, medical trainees are getting paid to perform a service, and hospitals provide retirement plans to these individuals. Since these savings are so important, automated savings is another avenue to utilize. My children’s 529 has an option to ‘auto contribute.’

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Mere Mortal MD

MARCH 22, 2025

You’re not going to work in a hospital.” There is a hospital there, though one of my patients who lives in Valdez told me yesterday that the care at the hospital is not really top of the line, which is what finally convinced him to move to Anchorage where he and his frail wife could get better medical care.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Assuming my hospital is still standing, I would obviously continue to work my job as best as I could to continue to bring in income. Budgeting for living expenses should be comprehensive (mortgage payments/rent, student loans, groceries, utilities, childcare—every. a high-yield savings account or money market account). Stay motivated!

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Primary care provider utilization was assessed among several patient center health outcomes. Intervention: Coach McLungsSM, a health information technology solution designed for primary care, engages patients, caregivers, and providers in shared decision-making about asthma. to 0.08, p=0.44), 5% to 2% ([95%]CI -0.03

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context In the post-discharge period from hospital acute inpatient care, the older patient is at risk from a lack of joined-up care. Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Though patients/carers are often copied in, they seldom get a plain English version or space to discuss its contents.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

But there are some challenges when it comes to the utilization of FOAM: – Decentralization of FOAM resources – Concerns about the quality of information being presented The Solution: The Systematic Online Academic Resource, or SOAR, review was created in an effort to address some of these limitations. How can I use these findings?

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Choosing Wisely Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recommendations The Choosing Wisely Campaign Toolkit Expert Contributors Michele Nypaver, MD University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA michelen@med.umich.edu Jennifer Thull-Freedman, MD Alberta Children’s Hospital Calgary, Alberta, Canada Jennifer.Thull-Freedman@albertahealthservices.ca

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults? Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And when you think about that, they’re hearing pieces of the information and their brain is trying to make sense of it. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Physicians, whether in small practices or employed by hospitals, face a daunting challenge when trying to get a payer to approve a medication, procedure or imaging study. The standard of care was hospital admission and surgical ablation of the obstruction to urine flow. The cost of the hospital procedure was $25,000 to $35,000.

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FDA Law

JUNE 21, 2023

non-invasive remote monitoring devices that measure or detect common physiological parameters and non-invasive monitoring devices that wirelessly transmit patient information to their healthcare provider or other monitoring entity). At-home medical technologies include, but are not limited to, monitoring and wearable devices (e.g.,

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

The doctor can bend the rules by informing the patient about the potential adverse effects. If you fall into the latter group of informed practices, make sure that when you ask for patients' opinions, you also make a point of listening to what they say and then follow up on their suggestions. Make an informed decision.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

So we measure things like hospitalizations and ed visits and the like, and those data are a bit weaker, but they’re also, you know, I think they need to be contextualized in what, why we would even want to reduce hospitalizations right. And either of those could be given to the patient or an informant.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 16, 2024

There, as we explained back in July , Novartis argued that FDA’s approval of a generic ENTRESTO with indication information modified rather than simply omitted “represents a sharp departure from FDA’s statutory and regulatory mandate to require that a generic drug be the ‘same’ as its reference listed drug.”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today we talk with Sarguni Singh, hospitalist-researcher at the University of Colorado, Ann Henshaw, Occupational Therapist who teaches at George Washington and works clinically at Georgetown, and Tamra Keeney, Physical Therapist-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. So, Alex, imagine you’re a seriously-ill hospitalized patient and I’m your doctor, unluckily for you.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. The intervention was a negative study for the primary outcome, hospital length of stay. What is sludge?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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. hospice use). Tammie 02:56 It usually doesn’t work no matter what. Corita 04:32 Yep.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

CMS did not finalize the price verification survey, which would have required manufacturers of 10 costly drugs selected annually to provide clinical information as well as information on production, distribution, research, and marketing costs, revenue and profit, and ex-U.S. pricing, among other things.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. They were at the VA, but not so much at our main hub hospital where I trained. I do tend to focus in the hospital setting. That’s just not how the hospital works. Or the hospital, the intervention delivery is by who’s in practice.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Also the same hospital system? Eric: Okay. Kate: 3,500.

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PEMBlog

MAY 24, 2023

This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. Patient that are agitated should always be treated with dignity and respect. Government.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Marie 03:08 So, living in Alabama, which is our palliative care desert in the south, there were no palliative care services in any of the small rural hospitals. We went to a hospital in Mississippi, one in Alabama, and one in South Carolina. And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

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. I put a lot more information about Dr. Groopman and how to contact her in the show notes.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Those are evidence-based or evidence-informed tools that have been in practice. Eric: So Jasmine, we hit on care delivery, we also hit apparently on health information technology. Jasmine: Technology.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

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