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Updated rheumatoid arthritis treatment recommendations

Medical Xpress

Since their first publication in 2010, the EULAR recommendations for the use of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic treatments (DMARDs) in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have become a most important publication in the field, and their updates are relied upon by many healthcare professionals, professional organizations and other stakeholders to (..)

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers. And then the second one in 2015.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

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. Anne: Which episode of the GeriPal podcast has most significantly changed your clinical practice? We mentioned her name before.

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

GeriPal

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. Ruth: Sure.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

I was part of a writing group that wrote clinical guidelines for VSET for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. This is just because this arose organically in clinical practice as a way of balancing these underlying competing ethical issues. Why did you write this paper? Alex 17:35 Can I interject here?

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