GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

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. And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Eric: And you can probably tell already, the topic at hand is diabetes management in late life.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

So that’s one, this patient-centered geriatric assessment and management approach. Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. Eric: So can I ask also, Stephanie, you did this survey fall of 2020. So two questions about that.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Multiple evidence-based studies have shown that these tests do not significantly contribute to any changes in the management of these patients. Reaffirmed October 17, 2020 Riviello JJ Jr, Ashwal S, Hirtz D, et al; American Academy of Neurology Subcommittee; Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society. 2000; 55(5):616-623.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” ” A month after the consult, Ellen died peacefully in her sleep.

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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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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

A workgroup convened in 2020 found that the existing practice categories candidates could choose were inadequate to the real scope of community practice and proposed updates drawn from the American Medical Association and the Diplomate Professional Profile.

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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. Eric: Oh, wow. She’s looking at exactly what was done.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

He was ultimately admitted to the general pediatric service for further management. Additional labs ordered per the consultant’s recommendations were notable for elevated PT/PTT, AFP, plasma tyrosine, and urine succinylacetone consistent with a diagnosis of tyrosinemia. 2020 Jun 5;38:e2018158. Rev Paul Pediatr.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I did all of my research training in health services research, health policy, and then was very grateful to be recruited by Dr. Christine Ritchie when she transitioned here to MGH in September of 2020. Tamra: I wrote this… Eric: Thinking that the perceived role for inpatient physical therapist is a discharge consultant.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. Even in the crazy hurried clinic space, the interesting thing, I have had two or three outpatient clinic managers email me that said, “I saw this narrative.” Bennett, C.R., Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304.

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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. It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. So that’s great. No, no, no.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

You were on a National Academy of Sciences committee started in 2020? If you own and operate a nursing home and you’re taking people in, and you’re admitting new residents, what’s their accountability for how they manage compensation and quality delivery? I’m the project manager, so my job’s to zoom in.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. And then to see her show up in our hospice unit in April of 2020, it just completely broke my heart. Turns out, it’s maybe not. She was homeless.

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