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Episode 242: WDx #17 – “The Next Play”

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Uttara (Tara) Gadde Uttara (Tara) Gadde is an internal medicine resident at the University of Pennsylvania. She has served as the Program Director for the Duke Internal Medicine Residency since 2009, a job she considers to be both the best job ever and a continuous welcome challenge!

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. This is my favorite article, Susan, that I talk about of M a nju is a New England Journal article that came out 2009. 2009, yeah, 2009.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Rehabbed to Death.

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Dual Threats From Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers

Physician's Weekly

. “We are facing the collision of two policies here that could further erode staffing in nursing homes and present health outcome challenges,” said Eric Roberts , an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Conteh said taking care of elders is embedded in the culture of African families.