2014, Community, Family and Healthcare

Celebrating Ten Years of ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) is a health professions education model that uses telehealth technology to bridge specialists to community clinicians to disseminate best practices and foster interprofessional collaboration.

Management

Management Telehealth Education Community

Personalized medicine in a community health system: the Endeavor Health experience [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum. In 2014, Endeavor Health (formerly NorthShore University HealthSystem) launched the Center for Personalized Medicine to catalyze the delivery of personalized medicine.

Community

Community Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics

Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

Hospital

Hospital Management Primary Care Primary Care Physician

Episode 322: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

Her research, writing, and community engagement focuses on shifting consciousness in medical education toward abolitionist possibilities. She came from an activist family, with her mother being one of the first South Asian feminist activists in the country. Learn more about her work at www.sayantanidasgupta.com.

Community

Community Education Patient-Centered Relationship

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

IT

IT Families Family Diagnosis

Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This is back in, I don’t know, like 2014 maybe. Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them. laughter] David 04:24 That’s what they all say.

Medical

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of.

Healthcare

Healthcare IT Community Illness

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

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. Eric: And that’s what you found, that the healthcare system is perfectly designed to just deprescribe automatically after short periods of use? These are families who are in distress. Tasce: Right. Tasce: Right.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Healthcare Medical

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. It’s now available.

IT

IT Patient-Centered Families Family

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

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. In fact, as Lauren Hunt found , the average likelihood that a person will be disenrolled from one hospice vs. another is two. AlexSmithMD.

Families

Families Family IT Patients

Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

And back then, mostly we took care of each other in the cells and it was like a family thing. AIDs didn’t know any color or creed, so it was a family thing, we all took care of each other. And it’s a family environment, it becomes like a big family here. And this is my family, who I spend my time with.

IT

IT Families Family Board-Certified

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

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients

Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. So the things that Karl mentioned, but also access to healthcare during a disaster or even heat. Ruth: Yeah. Ruth: Yeah.

Healthcare

Healthcare IT Education Community

Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.

Primary Care

Primary Care Supply Chain General Practitioner Vaccination

Primary Care Digest

Celebrating Ten Years of ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship [Pain management]

Personalized medicine in a community health system: the Endeavor Health experience [Dissemination and implementation research]

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Episode 322: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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

Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

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

Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

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