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Anna Chodos Advocates Dementia Screening at California Health Meeting
Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, gave a presentation at the California Department of Health Care Services Medical Directors' meeting on March 7th at L.A. Care Health Plan's offices. Her presentation focused on the importance of screening for dementia and Dementia Care Aware as a resource to support primary care providers in implementing a screening.
Krista Harrison Co-Authorized Study Published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Dr. Krista Harrison co-authored a study with former hospice colleagues published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management entitled "Use of auditing and feedback in an outpatient hospice setting: Quality and pharmacoeconomic oversight". This study reports that showing hospice clinicians their prescribing patterns for opioids, antipsychotics, and antidepressants (e.g. thequality improvement method of audit and feedback) resulted in unchanged or improved measures of pain management and simultaneous reduction in per-patient medication costs at one community-based hospice organization.