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.

Patient-Centered 40

Patient-Centered Clinic Provider Patients 40

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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Community Family Physician Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: American Family Cohort, a data asset including electronic health records of 8 million patients from family practices across 50 US states. Population Studied: Patients with ≥1 visit between January 2018 and December 2019 and who remained in the cohort until at least May 2020. 95% CI 0.51, 0.7)

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patients Diagnosis Family Practice 130

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. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? Tamryn: Yes, 100%. And I don’t know where if we’re there yet.

Diabetes 73

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Canada, most of the population relies on their family doctor for their mental healthcare needs. The time horizon was anchored in January 2012: pre-pandemic period was defined as January 2012 to March 2020, and the pandemic period as April 2020 to June 2022. In April 2020 the MHV rate rose to 0.141/month.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Mental Health Illness Family Doctor 130

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!

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Family physicians and family health workers, considered reliable sources of vaccine information, have a unique position where individuals in rural and urban areas can access frequently, uninterruptedly, cheaply, and easily [2]. COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) COVID-19 diagnosis of a relative Yes 98 (46.4)

Vaccination 40

Vaccination Healthcare Professional Healthcare Primary Care 40

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. And so we looked at in total there were about 105,000 patients across 20 observational studies.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. Eric: Like since a little kid? Eric: Yeah?

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. . Darrell: Thank you.

Nurse Practitioner 136

Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. Eric: Yeah.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. You hear people, a lot of talking heads on tv. I am unable to make certain pronouncements.

Diagnosis 141

Diagnosis IT Diagnose Physicals 141