GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. So like I said, I got to meet Thor, I believe it was May, 2016. She was a heart failure patient.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

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. In 2016 there were about a thousand MAID deaths, in 2021 there were about 10,000. Four percent. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I have never had a patient come into the hospital and say, Doctor, regardless of what you do, do a little CPR that’ll make me feel better. I would say most of the time we offer CRT in the hospital. I point this out a lot more nowadays to the resident teams that consult. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 136

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. I got one more lightning question, Janet, you’re at UCSF you’re caring for a patient in the hospital. Eric: And why Under Pressure. Alex: So we’ll see what these come out like.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 102

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Dataset: Health administrative data from 380,124 Quebecers between 1996 and 2016. Group 3 had the lowest proportions of hospitalizations and ED visits.

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Diagnosis Healthcare Illness Primary Care 130

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. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. Kara 10:43 Those are inpatient consults?

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. What we’ve been doing isn’t working,” he said.

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