GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a cluster stepped wedge randomized trial? Long overdue.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Leonie Herx, who’s a palliative care physician and clinical professor at the University of Calgary. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And so the importance of the picture and the epiphany that really came many years later, I published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology called Dignity in the Eye of the Beholder. Which is… In fact, I was approached by the Mayo Clinic recently.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And so often, these patients experience a lot of hospitalizations, numerous hospitalizations while they receive intensive chemotherapy that requires prolonged periods of neutropenia and toxicities, or stem cell transplantation, which is what I specialize in clinically now. Was in Journal of Clinical Oncology and that was interesting.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? You want to go back, I know this is pre-pandemic. Alex: The Wayback Machine.

Community 116

Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood. As I was cleaning up my office, I found something I’d written in 2016. What happened here?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. My interest in this paper and this topic goes back a long time and is based on my clinical experience as a hospice nurse, where I was taking care of what I felt like and what we’ve confirmed with research is about half of my patients.

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Families Family IT Patients 107

FDA Law

MAY 21, 2024

We wondered how given that HHS and the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) conducted eight-factor scheduling analyses in 2016, concluding that there was “no substantial evidence that marijuana should be removed from Schedule I.” 12, 2016) ; Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed. 12, 2016).

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic? The folks that we were seeing either in clinic or inpatient, were probably a lot sicker than the ones that we’re seeing now.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108