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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

Since the mid-1990s, our capacity for innovation has never stopped as hospitalists navigate a complex landscape of acute illnesses, interprofessional collaborations and the imperative to provide efficient, high-quality care. Published July 26, 2023. Published October 11, 2023. That’s the essence of ambient dictation.

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You don’t need labs to medically clear a psych patient

PEMBlog

Patients with psychosis caused by medical illness usually have abnormal vital signs, altered mental status, and impaired orientation with compromised intellectual function. And we do this even when we know from years of growing evidence that the yield of these routinely ordered screening tests is very poor? Health Aff (Millwood).

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. Updated 2023 Jul 17]. Now, newborn screening, or NBS, includes testing newly born infants for certain IEMs. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org. will result in symptoms.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. It is a screening? And so then it would be nice to have those other than the chaplains, be aware of the spiritual component and then just ask some basic screening questions. I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

Today we discuss a new paper in JAMA that tests a stripped down version of the clinician only facing intervention in a pragmatic randomized trial for older adults with serious illness and those 80+. Randy died February 26, 2023. They found a difference of 4% in documented goals of care discussions. Is 4% meaningful?

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. Now is the time to act, dear listeners! Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data.