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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

We additionally firmly establish that the song How to Save a Life by the Fray was a product of the aughts (2005, to be exact), not the 90’s ): Enjoy! But all that was recommended was that they at least had discussions about that and to document the fact that a discussion was had. Alex: How to a Save a Life, 2005. Eric: 2005?

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Advance Care Planning? Meh. - Part 2

Pallimed

Providers had an EHR template/platform to document all this. The primary outcome was new documentation of ACP discussions in the EHR after randomization. They crushed their primary outcome: 42% of patients randomized to the intervention group had ACP documentation in the chart vs 4% in the usual care group.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

Pallimed

In 2005, Gary Franklin, MD, MPH, Director of the Labor and Industry Program, who would later become PROP’s Vice President of State Regulatory Affairs, published an article alleging that “that tolerance or opioid-induced abnormal pain sensitivity may be occurring in some workers who use opioids for chronic pain (9).” Terri A.

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100 Men in Nursing – amazing male nurses, midwives and students

The Nurse Break

Titration of ventilation settings, CRRT troubleshooting, vasopressor management, and supporting loved ones, all the while trying to manage documentation and patients who are critically unwell or aggressive as a result of ICU delirium. I have been an Emergency Nurse since 2005. Mental Health Nursing. Miscellaneous. Nurse Practitioner.

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Why Do Most People Receive Less Time in Hospice than Recommended?

1-800-HOSPICE

In end-of-life care, it’s a common phenomenon that doctors will document telling patients they are approaching end of life while patients say they never had that conversation. 2005; 30: 400-407. Palliat Med. Medicare and most other insurances require that people not receive cure-oriented care while in hospice. 2015 Oct 8.

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Advance Care Planning? Meh. - Part 1

Pallimed

If you actually read the study you'll realize that what the intervention group had was better documentation of their wishes so it was easier to 'prove congruence for them (we don't know if the control group had 'congruent' care because their wishes weren't documented) and we don't actually know if the ACP intervention changed any patient care.