Rejecting Neutrality - Reducing Burdensome Hospitalizations For Nursing Home Residents
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Alex Smith and Eric Widera
December 15, 201620m 2s
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Show Notes
Nursing home residents are often sent to the hospital for care that often offers little hope of improving quality of life or changing the course of illness. Some facilities though seem to do much better in preventing these "potentially burdensome hospitalizations". We discuss with Andrew Cohen, the lead author of a recent JAMA IM paper on this subject, to learn a little about what is in the secret sauce of these exceptional nursing homes.