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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. Alex: And, it means pain management. Anne: Which episode of the GeriPal podcast has most significantly changed your clinical practice?

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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. And we’ll say that we will link to an article that Hope and Thaddeus and others, I think Tim Quill was on there, wrote in journal, Pain and symptom Management, I think it was. Why did you write this paper?

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Going beyond the surface material: A podcast episode on cellulitis

PEMBlog

Camargo, Clinical Trial: Comparative Effectiveness of Cephalexin Plus Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Versus Cephalexin Alone for Treatment of Uncomplicated Cellulitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 56, Issue 12, 15 June 2013, Pages 1754–1762, [link] Liu C, Bayer A, Cosgrove SE, et al. Pediatrics.

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