GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. Alex Smith: We have a full house.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 73

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A 2020 RCT of coaching for primary care physicians shows that coaching improves burnout well-being during the intervention and has a sustained duration at 6 months of follow up. Beth: Right now, I’m actually just doing individual coaching, but we are writing a grant to start group coaching next year. From Beth Israel and UNC.

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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. Consultations versus telehealth. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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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. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. And one question is, would this be true elsewhere? Lyndsay: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L., Doorenbos, A.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Remember, this was March 2020, around that time when we got all this training and we were having now these conversations really often.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Improving nursing home quality. You were on a National Academy of Sciences committee started in 2020? Eric: On improving the quality of nursing home care. We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. Eric: All right, let’s jump into this topic. Jasmine: Yes. Is that right?

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