Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Gowin and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,003 adults between 22 and 36 years of age who had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), urine toxicology, and cannabis use results collected at one academic site between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Human Connectome Project. It’s more complicated than that. The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And what my goal was was to try to get a 360 degree view of the healthcare system by interviewing as many different types of people that will influence care for people who are at the end-of-life or people with serious illness in the hospital. There’s obviously private hospitals, academic hospitals, community hospitals.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. There’s also been some differences in things like staffing.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. Tamra: It’s incredibly complicated because to date, there’s not really a validated tool that’s mandated to be used across all settings.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. I think it’s really, really complicated. Julien: It’s a good question. Julien: I like this question.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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