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Jodyn Platt, MPH, PhD will provide scholarly guidance to AcademyHealth, national health research leader, and the ABIM Foundation, which advances medical professionalism to improve health care. Her task will be to raise visibility of the trust agenda, including writing on emerging issues in trust and health care.
Family caregivers are often involved in the day-to-day activities of their older relatives, such as communicating with doctors, helping them navigate the health care system and making decisions that affect their care. But when the pandemic hit, forcing health care systems to switch to telehealth
COVID patients are 40% more likely to die within 10 days of leaving the hospital than those with pneumonia or heart failure, study finds About 2,220 veterans treated for coronavirus were compared with 1,600 non-COVID-related pneumonia patients and 3,500 heart failure patients Nearly 14% of COVID-19 patients were rehospitalized or died within 10 days of being discharged That's almost 40% higher than the 9.7% of pneumonia patients and 8.8% of heart failure patients who were readmitted or died within 10 days After 60 days, only 27% percent of COVID-19 patients were readmitted or died compared to...
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