Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

A retrospective analysis of characteristics of 15 consecutive years of code stroke cases at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, found that patients who were ultimately diagnosed with migraine headache with aura (1.1%) were more likely to be younger, female, and have fewer vascular risk factors than patients with ischemic strokes.

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Primary Care Family Physician Clinical Practice Diagnosis 52

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults? Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations.

IT 125

IT Hospital Patient-Centered Individual 125

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

There’s an article about her in New York Times. And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months.

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

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. Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?”

Family 113

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 113

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. 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. Jessie: Yes. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Oh, you were?

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. But that was my take home from Danny’s article. Janet, do you have a similar clinic structure as SACH has? That was my take home.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care. And the title of his article is, does culture of modern day palliative care social work leave room for leadership, where he interviewed six leaders in palliative care, five or six for social workers. Eric: All right, Barbara.

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IT Family Families Clinic 102