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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. It’s just that they look like a big bmI, but they lost 15, 2030 pounds. So cachexia, I would put it involuntary weight loss is the number one way to diagnose it. That patient past cache.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. What are the prognoses associated with various PPS scores? Eric 07:31 Yeah, and I can imagine, I.

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