The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Identify realistic solutions to drug policy reform that promote health equity among marginalized communities living in the United States. Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. What can we do as a community?

Community 116

Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

When we have a medication with up front harms and downstream benefits, it’s critical that we consider the time to benefit, or how long it will take an individual to benefit from a test or treatment. For individuals with a life expectancy less than the time to benefit, the up front harms outweigh the downstream benefits. .

Clinic 68

Clinic IT Patients Medical 68

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So a couple weeks after it was published, I took a trip to a medical school in the western part of the country and I was visiting to think about their geriatrics research program, and they had a geriatrics evaluation clinic. And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic and she told me, “You know what?

Board-Certified 91

Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But when we have people in rural areas of California, so we don’t know our clinical site, we go from San Francisco all the way to the Northern California border, super rural areas. So, I’m super proud of being able to reach out to people in rural communities. Lynn: I would question that today. Lynn: Great. Go for it, Anne.

IT 127

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a clinical decision support? Long overdue.

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day. That’s true.

IT 112

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 112