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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

Next up, we chat with Liz Bayliss about her JAMA IM article that studied whether increasing awareness about deprescribing prior to primary care visits can reduce the use of potentially inappropriate long-term medications for individuals with cognitive impairment. So people could live in the community.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

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. In their communities? They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.” Not the patients?

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that. How do we train primary care doctors to do geriatrics? Eric: Can I just add it?

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

BMJ

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. 150 (54.3) p<0.001 Doctor 83 (65.9) 126 (45.7) 162 (58.7) 228 (82.6)

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

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. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community. And then as it grew, I just was viewing the entire enterprise as a love letter to health care. That was January 2020.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that.

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Should we prioritize the unvaccincated for treatment? Govind Persad and Emily Largent

GeriPal

There were community-minded motivations, there were motivations that were not having to do with health but having to do with, “So my kids won’t keep calling me and telling me I have to get vaccinated,” type motivations so. I think in other cases, if you look at surveys, the motivations can be more complex.