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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. and consulting for Papa Health. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. laughter] Alex: Yeah.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I mean, the simple answer is, yes, we should be screening people for substance use disorder. Katie: Yeah. So, I digress.

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

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu. David: Exactly. Lyndsay: Yeah.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. And so we do have consultants who come in the building. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. Reasons why people thought about consulting palliative care. Connie 21:45 Right, right.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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He died in 2024. Eric 13:00 I also love that too, because even on our inpatient ballot of care consult service, whenever somebody says that they’re unrepresented or they don’t have a surrogate, we never believe that until we usually look up. I’m a little bit of a throwback kind of 70s 80s guy.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. But that was a small pot of money and we went to first call a handy person, it was going to be $500 for a consultation, let alone the installation, and we were like, “This is absolutely cost-prohibitive. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

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And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? Would you have that same pessimism that you had then today about these predictive algorithms and their ability to transform healthcare? Alex: Yeah, we talk a lot about de-skilling in geriatrics and palliative care, because so much of what we do is a consultant role.