33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

And as suggested recently in the New England Journal of Medicine , One of the most important factors at play in the clinical environment is the apparent tension between availability and attention. Some will convert their practice into a virtual clinic with late night pajama time ‘sessions’ while others will recognize the need for guardrails.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Liz: Well, some aspects of this paper around clinical momentum and things around defaults and that sort of thing. Proud Mary.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Data came from the three influenza seasons from 2012 to 2015. In addition, frailty was significantly associated with severe RSV outcomes , including more extended hospital stays and higher rates of ICU admission. Characteristics of Study Population The analysis included 365 patients aged 50 to older than 85.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Jessie: Thank you.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Alex: And Sarguni Singh, who’s a hospitalist researcher, Assistant Professor of medicine in the division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado. Ann: Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

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?” Every Veteran has a story. Our mission is to help them tell it.

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Louisville Lectures

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Forest Arnold's focuses on summarizing the extent of human coronaviruses, risk factors, and the clinical presentation of patients with coronavirus to the extent known. He then identifies the current infection prevention and control approach, as well as clinical management and future directions. Arnold, D.O., FIDSA Forest W.

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Louisville Lectures

APRIL 9, 2021

After, he explains the clinical presentation and current commendations for pharmacologic management and finally, the vaccines in phase 3 trials. His clinical expertise is in Infectious Diseases and he is board certified on the American Board of Internal Medicine - Infectious Diseases. Disclaimers ©2015 LouisvilleLectures.org

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Todd Semla, who is a clinical pharmacist and associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. So in those clinical situations, you should consider avoiding that drug. You have to take that into consideration clinically. Mike: Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Heather: I do Alex, and I’m so happy to have this song request, it’s called The Eye by Brandi Carlile, which comes from a quite old 2015 album called The Firewatcher’s Daughter. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. So I would love to hear.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

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

MARCH 2, 2023

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. I understand that it can be a hard place clinically.

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Patient-Centered IT Healthcare Medical 96

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. Did I get that right? Joel: Oh yeah. Alex: Oh, good. Joel: And they kept her comfortable.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

It was inspired by a hot-off-the-presses publication from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) focused on clinical decision rules for cervical spine imaging in children. 2015 Apr;22(4):441-6. Epub 2015 Mar 16. Let’s go ahead and pivot to initial management. Harding, M., Leonard, J.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. For-profit hospices having much higher rates of their patients visiting the emergency department and being hospitalized, in addition to disenrollment. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Leonie Herx, who’s a palliative care physician and clinical professor at the University of Calgary. And he writes about his experience living with cancer at billgardner.substack.com.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. We really do not.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. And we have some great guests. Liz 00:32 Thanks.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. I think the big one for me, it was in 2015.

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