GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. So I picked the Ed Sheeran song, The A Team, because it reminds me of our ACE team that goes around the hospital and cares for our older patients.

Hospital 101

Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Bragging rights.

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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. We address: Why is caring for patients with this overlap so hard? Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. What is making this hard for me? What do they do?

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

On that podcast he and collaborators tested a combined patient and clinician facing communication priming intervention to promote goals of care conversations. Alex: And Ruth Engelberg, who is an esteemed palliative care and palliative care researcher also at the University of Washington and can be a palliative care center of excellence.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 84