GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare. Heather: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? Eric: And we’re going to get to results, but that’s why I also love that 2016 paper: I think it was the very first palliative care trial that ever looked at individuals getting curative therapy. Did it negate everything from the 2016 trial?Palliative

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We used all of our political capital to make sure it happens in Chicago, which is where we started for the literature Updates back in 2016, back when it was just me and Ken, and then we brought in Alex, like two years later. Annie 05:16 So if you look back in history, I think Eric and Ken have been doing this since 2016. Go Cubs, go.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. 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. And how am I going to manage their pain? Two great videos on buprenorphine initiation. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. They supported patients, they gave them a holding environment, they did symptom management, yada, yada, yada, like all the things we know palliative care clinicians do.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients. Eric 04:26 So that 2016 study was in the ED, but it was getting specialty palliative care to see them when they were hospitalized, is that right? Primary outcome was quality of life.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? What does it mean for functional status, symptom management, location of care? Samir: As some of your audience may know, there are new billing codes introduced January 1st, 2016 to start reimbursing for having advance care planning discussions.

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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. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). Four percent. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. What motivated you to reach out to the healthcare audience in this way? Liz: That’s right.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

And it’s a bit of a hokey title, but what I try and impress on readers there is that, the reflection that patients see of themselves, at least metaphorically in the eye of the healthcare provider, needs to be one that is affirming of patient dignity. I mean, we all give lip services saying, “Person-centered care is important.”

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

There has been no evidence that marijuana’s schedule should change since the last rescheduling review in 2016. Thousands of doctors in the 38 states that permit the medical use of cannabis recommend marijuana to their patients and millions of patients consume medical marijuana under healthcare professionals’ guidance each year.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 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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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

So they need mainstream healthcare, and they need housing support. So someone who’s got, let’s say, a psychotic disorder and a substance use disorder, those services are going to be pretty intense case management to help them just manage their life. But nothing in healthcare. We spend money in healthcare.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. 2015, 2016. And I was terrified. They could have diagnosed him earlier. Malaz: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. On the one hand, when I hear of Ob-Gyn’s in Catholic Healthcare systems using “workarounds” to provide reproductive care, I’m standing up and cheering on the inside. I got it the second time.

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