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.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Full disclosure, I talked with Ava Kofman a bunch while she was preparing that article, and I thought based on my professional experience working in hospice, things that I had seen, that she raised a lot of issues that I had personally encountered in my clinical experience. Certainly in the last five years we could have done this.

IT 115

IT Provider Patients Families 115

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. Joan: Thanks. Ruth: Sure.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60