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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

When was that, 2010? Eric: 2010. I think … There’s so few, seriously, from the hospital system and the pathologizing systems to the more social care intervention work that Susan and I really do. And then the people with the other kinds of diagnoses feel left out because we talk about Alzheimer’s all the time.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Jennifer: It was 2010. Eric: 2010. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. Jennifer: Thanks.

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

GeriPal

But it’s interesting because I started seeing, even though for instance I was working on this much earlier, but I published my large meta-analysis linking this to risk for premature mortality back in my first one in 2010. And so I was really thinking about why are some of my people that are hospitalized doing better than others?

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. For-profit hospices having much higher rates of their patients visiting the emergency department and being hospitalized, in addition to disenrollment. I do think the growth of for-profit hospice, so around 2000 to 2010, was beneficial in terms of access. Go ahead, Lauren.

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Podcast: Cervical Spine Injuries & Imaging in Children

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Epub 2010 Oct 29. It’s particularly difficult to diagnose cervical spine injuries in kids under three because they can’t give you an accurate history and cooperate with the exam. Any patient with a cervical spine injury or a neurologic deficit They’re getting admitted to the hospital. Ann Emerg Med.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all.

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Going beyond the surface material: A podcast episode on cellulitis

PEMBlog

If you think that there’s an abscess, you can diagnose it clinically by a localized area of induration or fluctuance or use an ultrasound. Well, you definitely shouldn’t be sending a blood culture because if you’re worried about bacteremia and sepsis, that kid needs to stay in the hospital. Pediatrics.

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