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

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And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. 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.

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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. I don’t know how our patients manage that.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? Eric: Oh, wow.