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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

OUR ENTIRE FIELD of hospital medicine grew out of the need to innovate to address the growing complexities of inpatient medicine. AI Implementation: key considerations Integrating new technology in a hospital requires careful planning and attention to detail. It is crucial to have seamless integration with the existing EHR system.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Race, racism, and racial inequality have tangible impacts on people’s livelihoods, much less their experiences in the healthcare system. These factors may have impacted their diet, physical activity, and medications, thus impacting their creatinine levels and the inputs that we use for GFR. 2011 Sep 20;155(6):408].

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. JAGS 2022 Trends in Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Prescribing in Long-Term Care in the U.S.:

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

GeriPal

And so I was really thinking about why are some of my people that are hospitalized doing better than others? What it found is that healthcare providers are better at identifying people that are connected more than disconnected. .” I’m ageist as a geriatrician that I like older people as I always say, not the younger folks.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Haider.