Really great piece from Tim Anderson in JAMA Health Forum 👇🏼

Assessed over 79 million (!!) hospital discharges and found >60% of patients do not receive follow-up within 14 days.

Complements our recent work in JAGS assessing post-ED follow-up
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38308394/

Geriatric Emergency Medication Safety Recommendations (GEMS-Rx): Modified Delphi Development of a High-Risk Prescription List for Older Emergency Department Patients | AnnalsofEM

More practical than Beers, which is every single medication basically.

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🔦Great spotlight on Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH 🏳️‍🌈 of Yale Emergency Medicine & Yale Emergency Scholars. Have very much enjoyed figuring out early academic career EM research and growing the pipeline of EM investigators with her!

Matt Fiedler and Loren Adler found today that No Surprises Act arbitration outcomes mostly favor very high provider charges and may cause higher prices and premiums.

brookings.edu/articles/a-fir…

Why is this happening? No one knows with certainty, but I want to make a couple points:

If you knew our dear friend Aris Garro, you’d know that placing this tribute right by the coffee is 100% appropriate.

#PEM

Congrats to Michael Makutonin of GW SMHS on his SAEM SAEM RAMS Medical Student Research Grant. Excited that he's newly matched to Yale Emergency Scholars Yale Emergency Medicine!

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IMPACT's Cameron Gettel MD MHS + Julie Bynum are among authors of Michigan Medicine CAPRA Data Brief highlighting research efforts that show the use of Medicare claims to examine health care use patterns among older adults w/ ADRD using datasets provided by IMPACT: bit.ly/49SzKzm

📢 Exciting #GeriatricEM study! 🚑

👵 Half of ED patients aged 65+ leave with new prescriptions, but some increase risk.

🚨 Our team of experts developed GEMS-Rx, an evidence-driven list of high-risk meds to avoid in older adults:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1il1Fib7EM7pA AnnalsofEM

Boarding in EDs after admission is a public health crisis and leads to more medical error & higher mortality. Solutions exist. Here's why many hospitals aren't fixing it. forbes.com/sites/jessepin… ACEP Members Emergency Physicians emresidents AAEM

Rachel Skains #FOAMed open access for 50 days thanks to Elsevier Elsevier News AnnalsofEM at authors.elsevier.com/c/1il1Fib7EM7pA. Hustey MH/CCF/CWRU Emergency Medicine Residency noted opportunities to harmonize American Geriatrics Society #BeersList with #GeriEM pmid.us/18606324 in 2008 - now specific alternatives ACEP Members

Excited to announce GEMS-Rx was published today in Annal of EM! Thank you to ACEP Geriatric Sect and all co-authors!

Geriatric Emergency Medication Safety Recommendations (GEMS-Rx): Modif... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In the latest episode of GEMCast, join Christina Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA, FACEP and Dr. Cameron Gettel as they talk about a paper that provides the first benchmarks for emergency care process outcomes in geriatric EDs compared with nongeriatric EDs. Tune in: gedcollaborative.com/podcast/an-out…

Confused about ED approach to dizziness after reading SAEM saem.org/publications/g… & Emergency Physicians acep.org/patient-care/c…? Check out latest E-QUAL podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ace…

📢An important piece addressing implicit bias in AEM Journal led by Brown EM Residency's Ambuj Suri - there exists pervasive susceptibility to bias, key barriers (e.g. institutional) encountered when addressing bias, and opportunities for interventions

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

📢🎙️ Have learned a ton from Christina Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA, FACEP - was a delight to be on the other side of the Geriatric EM Podcast mic. We explored our team's recent piece in AnnalsofEM exploring outcomes in geriatric and non-geriatric EDs: bit.ly/3PgKJKT

Check it out at bit.ly/4bP2IkS