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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith. Is that your experience?

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

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It’s just that they look like a big bmI, but they lost 15, 2030 pounds. I hope that in the future we’ll have the ability to detect who are the patients who are at elevated risk for those complications beyond the events that we see. But their albumin is too. Would they have a nephropathy or anything?

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

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And then usually what we try and do is in order to make this more feasible, rather than clicking through 2030, predictors for busy clinicians, is perform some type of variable selection so that we can come up with a more simplified model. You include things like comorbidities, age, functional status falls, some other variables.

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