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

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. Really, the inputs into care and some of the outcomes that patients have experienced.

Families 107

Families Family IT Patients 107

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

There’s obviously private hospitals, academic hospitals, community hospitals. And I think this is something that I’m continuing to think about and excited to work with other people who are thinking about this as well because it’s very complicated and challenging. And then was trying to find different hospitals.

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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 126

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.

Patient-Centered 133

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 133

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

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

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. Eric 10:09 So you’re reassured on that concern there. Kara 10:12 Yep.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108