Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

2019/pre-pandemic and 2020/pandemic cohorts included 167,095 vs. 173,240 PLWD living in the community and 93,374 vs. 92,434 PLWD residing in nursing homes (NHs), respectively. Analysis: We compared 2020 to 2019 in 3 periods (1st wave; interim period; 2nd wave) and conducted meta-analyses on the provincial estimates.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: School-based outbreaks often precede increased incidence of acute respiratory infections in the greater community. Students who reported their possible source of infection most often cited a family member (49.6%) or classmate (34.6%).

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Representatives from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) joined for a portion of the meeting*.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. The ways to remedy the negative impacts of incarceration are to incarcerate fewer people and to invest in communities.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.”

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

During this episode, we hear from Dr. Nav Persaud, a staff physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St. Additionally, Indigenous communities experience lower life expectancy, higher burden of disease, and lower socioeconomic status compared to non-Indigenous Peoples.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 15, 2024

This story goes back to the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits manufacturers from selling any “new tobacco product” without authorization from FDA. FDA complied with that order, later extended the deadline because of COVID, and eventually settled on a PMTA deadline of September 9, 2020.

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CDOCS

MARCH 15, 2021

& We participate within our dental community in educational meetings and events, which builds our trust in the specialist. Communicating with empathy, through careful word choice, tone of voice, and body language, can be very reassuring and help the patient feel comfortable with their decision.</span></span></p>

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context As the population ages, access and continuity of primary care with the family physician are crucial for managing the complex health needs of persons with dementia. Objective To provide a comprehensive overview of primary care use among community-dwelling persons with dementia in Quebec from 2018 to 2020.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. We debate the merits of use of CGM in the nursing home and other late life settings (Eric and I argue against CGM and lose). Listen in to learn more!

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Liz Bayliss is Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome a wonderful group to talk about deprescribing. Welcome, Liz, to the GeriPal Podcast. Elizabeth: Nice to be here. One in JAMA Network.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Guidance provides a listing of domains for such assessment as pertains to general concerns ( e.g. , quality of life, physical health) and neurodevelopmental concerns ( e.g. , sensory, motor, cognition, communication). The Guidance is written carefully to communicate that these determinations are all very case-specific.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess the impact of neighborhood poverty, as measured by the Distressed Communities Index (DCI), on TKA in Maryland. Introduction/Context: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is the third most common inpatient surgery in the United States, with increasing percentages performed in ambulatory settings.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

The US Preventive Services Task Force , the American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American College of Chest Physicians recommend annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for adults 50 to 80 years of age who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have smoked within the past 15 years.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” Ellen was in a wheelchair, wearing a white sweater, gray sweatpants, and fuzzy socks. A headband was tied around her white hair.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

Her research, writing, and community engagement focuses on shifting consciousness in medical education toward abolitionist possibilities. She came from an activist family, with her mother being one of the first South Asian feminist activists in the country. Learn more about her work at www.sayantanidasgupta.com.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Okah is a family medicine clinician and NRSA research fellow at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and she studies the association between the use of race in medical decision-making and beliefs regarding the etiology of disparities in health outcomes. Essien MD, MPH, Jazzmin Williams, Alec J. Calac, Victor A.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Is it you Lyndsay?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

Pearls Black and Indigenous birthing people are 3-13 times more likely to die in childbirth, with the rate varying by location and level of investment in communities. The exact statistics vary by location and by the overall level of investment in services such as childcare and parental leave within each community. and a professor.”

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It’s our collective responsibility to explain it, to define it, to communicate it in effective ways to physicians, to healthcare systems, to the public at large and in detail, with data and with narratives, all the ways through which racism impacts our healt h.” 2020, February 3). Richard Rothstein References Rothstein, R.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Feyron has centered her work in Black/African American faith communities and churches – a program she titled Alter. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Fayron Epps, who is associate professor and director of Community and Research Engagement at the School of Nursing at Emory. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Fayron.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Our guests are BJ Miller, palliative care physician and c-founder of Mettle Health , and Naomi Saks, chaplain at UCSF. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38129210. Kleinman, A.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago. Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. Mike, welcome to GeriPal. Mike: Great to be here. Alex: We’ll take any Warriors we can get.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. It’s since spread to over 70 VAs.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A JAMA review article quotes a 2020 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guideline as recommending surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for patients younger than 65 years, TAVI for patients 80 years or older, and either procedure in patients 65 to 79 years, depending on operative risk and comorbidities.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs. One thing is clear, it is not because people are using it for FDA approved indications.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. One final note on the song request: About 20 years ago I took an epidemiology course as part of a Masters program. The instructor, Fran Cook , gave all the students a survey without explanation.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Increased quality of patient-provider communication, including offering behavioral counseling when needed, may avert unnecessary prescriptions. Parents and other family members who are prescribed these medications should be encouraged to take more responsibility to keep them locked and out of the hands of youth and young adults.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Ann: No, he was very excited.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Then I got online as a patient advocate and started connecting with the brain tumor community on social media and Facebook and Twitter, and actually started working in the healthcare space, in palliative care advocacy, for a palliative care advocacy organization in California, which is where I’m based, about eight years ago.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. The answers to these questions will vary. Reasonable people will disagree. Welcome, Karl.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Who would/should be on that board? Which is it? Whos got the right of it? Na 01:01 Yes, I requested the song.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

The basis of their argument is the ethical notion of “reciprocity” – people who are vaccinated have done something to protect the public health, and we owe them something for taking that action. Eric and I attempt to poke holes in their arguments, resulting in a spirited discussion. Evusheld is the latest case in point. . Alex: Love this.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Well-being committees are popping up at every level of an organization. And C-suites now have chief wellness officers sitting at the table. Eric 01:54 Why’d you pick this song, Naomi? Naomi 01:57 Because it really talks about this beautiful experience of our beloved, which is ourselves, the part that we often cut out of the equation.

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