GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

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: I wrote this… Eric: Thinking that the perceived role for inpatient physical therapist is a discharge consultant. Do you know those?

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And so the combination of the institutional structures, as well as the extreme cases that each individual doctor feels will actually help create this different culture, be it high or low intensity. It’s not explainable that each individual physician has independently arrived at this very aggressive practice pattern.

Hospital 125

Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

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 it started off for individuals with a terminal illness.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. And since starting the clinic, median time for consult to death was. Kara 10:43 Those are inpatient consults? Eric 10:44 No, all consults. Just if you look at all consults.

Families 106

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106