PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

This often requires hospitalization and transfusionin one series, 87% of children with transient aplastic crisis required packed red blood cell transfusions. These are rare, but something to keep in mindespecially if youre in a large academic childrens hospital. So how do we diagnose Parvovirus B19? UpToDate , Jun. Parvoviruses.

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Complication Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 83

PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

While elevated blood pressure readings are critical data points, the presence of symptoms and signs of end-organ dysfunction are paramount in diagnosing a hypertensive emergency (Kamat 2024). Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So what’s amazing about these guidelines, so if you go to 12 different hospitals and ask them, “How are you managing psychiatric conditions and mental health concerns in the context of palliative care?” For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 122

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 113

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. So, among folks ever diagnosed with head and neck cancers, prevalence of substance use disorders was 9%.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital. You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. And biochemical testing is really needed in most cases to independently diagnose a specific IEM.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

It’s particularly difficult to diagnose cervical spine injuries in kids under three because they can’t give you an accurate history and cooperate with the exam. Or patients with a substantial head or torso injury and substantial means that they’re going to require an intervention or observation in the hospital.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Because in medicine as somebody who works in the hospital, there’s always other treatment options. They could have a prognosis of years, or decades.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex: Generally in the hospital-based hospice. Matt: I’m more of a hospital guy. ” And I won’t… I’m not getting in the business of diagnosing or recommending particular medications or anything like that. Sammy: Oh, okay.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 128

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

With the direct primary care model, your insurance is used for what it is intended to cover: catastrophic health events, hospitalizations, specialist care, imaging, and surgery. In some cases, you may be referred to a hospital or specialty service. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. At the Mayo clinic, for example, they’ve got a very robust hospital at home program.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 140

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. So we sent that to everyone 65 and older with upcoming visits, though we were tracking on our side the people who had diagnoses and things. Alex 03:54 Very generous. Eric 03:57 Okay, we got a lot to talk about.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. This is Eric Widera.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 126

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic?

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Knowing I was interested in neurology and had opportunities to observe brain death determination in the hospital. So in the case of Jahi McMath, you were talking about, you know, her family was kicked out of the hospital. We do have, like, a relatively operable consensus around this where, you know, it’s working in the hospitals.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Kennedy comes to this memory cafe twice a month since being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in his late 50s. have been diagnosed with some form of dementia. In 2024, the Alzheimer’s Association issued a report projecting a jump in dementia cases in the U.S. It’s hospitality.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available at: [link] Accessed December 3, 2024. Greater than 50 percent of kids under 12 months of age with pertussis could require hospitalization. Infants with apnea, cyanosis, or feeding difficulties should obviously be admitted to the hospital.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. In some cases, it is used to intentionally generate profits for health insurers, according to a 2024 U.S. BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — He weighed 97 pounds and wasn’t expected to survive a year with stage 4 cancer.

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