Rough ER shift last night. Had an angry #COVID19 + patient who wouldn’t keep his mask on as he sputtered & shouted. Impressed at calm & respectful approach our team took - despite personal risk. ER #nurses #techs and #security are LEGENDARY Penn EM Residency #HealthCareWorkers

What's equal to/worse than the state of death? Can avoidance of these states serve as a novel, patient-centered outcome? Findings from PAIR rising star, Katie Auriemma Katie Auriemma, MD, MS, may surprise you. Now out in Palliative Medicine. Congrats Katie! doi.org/10.1177/026921…

Honored our Penn Med Transformation & Innovation team science paper on COVID Watch was selected as a #BestOfAnnals of Internal Medicine paper in 2021. Over 25,000 Penn Medicine patients enrolled to date. Appreciate the The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute funding for this work Anna U. Morgan, MD, MSc, MSHP David Asch Krisda H Chaiyachati Way to Health

Optimizing Opioid Prescriptions for Patients in the ED. Do any patients discharged from the ED need an opioid prescription? If the answer is not zero, then what is the right number, and for which conditions? Austin Kilaru Maggie Lowenstein ja.ma/3G1goIH JAMA Network Open

In my new Viewpoint from JAMA Internal Medicine, I argue that we should use adequate doses of short-acting opioids for hospitalized patients with untreated OUD to treat withdrawal, pain, and craving, in addition to offering methadone and buprenorphine: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… (1/5)

How did Maryland change the game on how to pay hospitals? We learned lessons from its leaders on how to move from volume to value through global budgets - read ja.ma/3ut1RTN JAMA Health Forum JAMA Network Kate Sapra CMS Innovation Ctr CMSGov Penn LDI Penn Med Transformation & Innovation

Congratulations to Dr. Khatri Utsha Khatri MD, MS on her NEJM Perspective piece on the #MedicaidReentryAct & caring for individuals who are incarcerated nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… @mountsinaiem

Go team MDTCOC! ⁦Kate Sapra⁩ The Maryland Total Cost of Care model is providing valuable lessons about what lasting change in health care looks like. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

A new JAMA Health Forum report, written by CMMI staff, discusses lessons learned from the implementation of hospital global budgets in the Maryland All-Payer Model: go.cms.gov/3st8HpR. Maryland Total Cost of Care builds on these results: go.cms.gov/3boL2ze

Important work by (almost Dr.) Sophie Faude measuring fentanyl in ED patients Penn EM Residency Tony Spadaro Austin Kilaru Ashish Thakrar, MD, MS Lewis Nelson Maggie Lowenstein M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS #ACMT2022; Fentanyl was the ONLY OPIOID detected in 58% of patients-implications for hospitals not testing yet.

Calling all junior EM researchers! ✈️Coming to SAEM22? 🧭Want to network? Apply now for the SAEM 2022 Lion's Den 🦁 Your chance to pitch a research idea and get feedback+mentorship+connections! DM me for link and more info. SAEM Austin Kilaru

So much great #healthequity content at SAEM #SAEM2022 in #NOLA bebe! Also love reconnecting with Highland EM fam and colleagues across the country whom are passionate about #DEI! UC Davis Health Department of Emergency Medicine

Congrats Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS!!! Well deserved!🔥🎉 #SAEM22

Embedding a dedicated case management service into the ER to provide practical alternatives hospitalization (eg intensive home services, telehealth services) saved on average 3 days in hospital per patient and *reduced* readmsssion Great RCT by Austin Kilaru #SAEM22

An AMAZING Lion's Den at #SAEM22 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 Great input from our Lions Ted Melnick Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS Manish N. Shah, MD #RobertRodriguez #CoritaGrudzen My co-partner Austin Kilaru SAEM

1/ Some thrilling news today! Our multi-center team involving Penn Medicine Cooper University Health Care and Alameda Health System was awarded funding from The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to test different strategies to increase addiction treatment engagement among patients with opioid use disorder discharged from the ER...

Tremendously proud of Tony for leading this timely and impactful work. We must pay attention to patients for whom bup did not work well - we have to find a better way in the era of #fentanyl M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS Maggie Lowenstein Ashish Thakrar, MD, MS Jeanmarie Perrone MD Penn EM Residency

Dear Cherelle Parker : go big. Maggie Lowenstein Shoshi Aronowitz, PhD, CRNP Center for Addiction Medicine & Policy The Philadelphia Inquirer inquirer.com/opinion/commen…