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March 7, 2023 | Hosted by Dr. Michael Cecchini Presentations from: Drs. Anne Mongiu, Jeremy Kortmansky, Kevin Du, and Sidney Bogardus, MD
The Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to welcome the following new faculty and staff members, who joined us in November 2022.
Trust Your Gut CME Series Returns for 2022
Employees who lose their jobs in the years immediately preceding retirement have twice the risk of suffering a stroke when compared to peers who are still working, according to a study by a Yale researcher.
When older patients followed a non-drug intervention strategy for preventing delirium, their rates of delirium were lowered by as much as 89 percent, Yale researchers report in the April 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Less than half of physicians report that they are well-trained to care for patients with terminal illnesses and about three-quarters of physicians feel knowledgeable enough to discuss hospice with patients and families, according to a study published by Yale researchers in the journal Academic Medicine.
In order to foster sound health care programs and policies concerning an aging population, a Yale researcher has devised a new index that forecasts which patients are most likely to die within one year after being discharged from the hospital.
Yale researchers have designed a geriatric assessment protocol to identify problems that often go undetected in elderly patients, such as depression, incontinence, vision and hearing loss and driving safety issues.
A program designed to reduce six risk factors for delirium in hospitalized patients 70 years old or older successfully reduced the number of patients who developed symptoms by 40 percent compared to a control group, a Yale study has shown.