ECHO-CT: An Interdisciplinary Videoconference Model for Identifying Potential Postdischarge Transition-of-Care Events.

Background: Discharge from the hospital to a post-acute care setting can be complex and potentially dangerous, with opportunities for errors and lapses in communication between providers. Data collected through the Extension for Community Health Outcomes- Care Transitions (ECHO-CT) model were used to identify and classify transition-of-care events (TCEs).

Methods: The ECHO-CT model employs multidisciplinary videoconferences between a hospital-based team and providers in post-acute care settings; during these conferences, concerns regarding the patient's care transition were identified and recorded.

Defining the Resident Continuity Clinic Panel Along Patient Outcomes: a Health Equity Opportunity.

Background: Continuity clinics are a critical component of outpatient internal medicine training. Little is known about the population of patients cared for by residents and how these physicians perform.

Objectives: To compare resident and faculty performance on standard population health measures.

Overview of High Yield Geriatrics Assessment for Clinic and Hospital.

Geriatric assessment is a comprehensive, multifaceted, and interdisciplinary evaluation of medical, socioeconomic, environmental, and functional concerns unique to older adults; it can be focused or broadened according to the needs of the patient and the concerns of clinical providers. Herein, the authors present a high-yield framework that can be used to assess older adult patients across a variety of settings.

Initial clinical predictors of significant coronary lesions after resuscitation from cardiac arrest.

Urgent coronary angiography following cardiac arrest is an important consideration as part of a therapeutic hypothermia/postresuscitation care bundle. Few data exist to guide the selection of patients who should receive postarrest angiography. This investigation sought to evaluate patient-level variables on initial postarrest presentation and their association with significant coronary lesions on subsequent angiography.

Restoration of noncarious cervical lesions: when, why, and how.

At this time, restoration of noncarious cervical lesions (NCCLs) is a common occurrence in clinics nowadays. Some reasons for this are the growth of the elderly population, a smaller rate of tooth loss, and possibly the increase of some etiologic factors. These factors include inadequate brushing techniques in gingival recession cases, corrosive food and drink consumption, and occlusal stress concentrating factors (occlusal interferences, premature contacts, habits of bruxism, and clenching).