PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

2024-066854. 2024-066855. I almost empower them to not necessarily do imaging because I think that there is this common misconception in the community setting that you can’t transfer a patient unless you know what the diagnosis is or unless you have imaging available. They’re not just the test referral center.

Families 101

Families Family Hospital Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” So I just want to start out by saying I think one of the reasons a lot of the referrals also don’t happen, it’s not just lack of access to care. Sure, yeah.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. ” Thoughts on that?

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

Patient-Centered 110

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. And the family members said, okay, now’s the time we need to honor her request. And honestly, this was not a well planned out thing.

IT 89

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from. Stupid theory.

Patient-Centered 120

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

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. Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. Alex 03:54 Very generous. Eric 03:57 Okay, we got a lot to talk about. We were agnostic on the timing.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80