PEMBlog

JANUARY 21, 2025

This article delineates the salient clinical features, associated complications, cost considerations, and risk profiles for each virus, thereby providing a framework for informed clinical decision-making. Common Complications : Otitis media : Diagnosis is supported by the presence of a bulging tympanic membrane with purulent effusion.

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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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? You see something on a bedside swallow, or on a FEES, you’re diagnosing what you think it is. Eric: So let me ask you this, Rale, because I feel like, it could be wrong, but the most common time where we start diagnosing dysphagia is during a hospital stay. Nicole: Yes.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In my previous article I covered the types of illness and the causes. In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. FEVER FAQs (contd.)

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

But I would say that in terms of education, it’s really complicated because it’s so confounded by socioeconomic status and so many social determinants of health. The biomarker discovery is tremendous, and I think truly will change the entire way ADRD is diagnosed and conceptualized in some ways. This is Eric Widera.

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Physicals IT Hypertension Education 86

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This all came out from JAGS just published their first Clin-STAR corner, which is, and we’ll talk about what that is, but it’s a series of articles bringing in specialists to talk about updates in the last couple years within their field. Mody for the mentorship and for the opportunity to bring together these articles.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

What you can expect to learn from this article: Recognize signs of end-organ injury when BP is 95th percentile + 30 mmHg. Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. But really those urinary tract signs and symptoms should be driving your diagnosis.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 123

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. Would you also just mind mentioning kind of the JPSM article too? What drove you to write that article on this important trip to Seattle? And my article is about when I was a mid to junior faculty member trying to build this career.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

For example, there was one article that we reviewed for Jags where it asked great questions, they gave great prompts, and ChatGPT answered great questions about antipsychotics and gave a list of references to back up ChatGPT’s assertions. Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Today we talk with Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint, and Anne Kelly, authors of a JGIM article on the reasons we shouldn’t stop at “no.” In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. Jane: Right.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. It’s something we need to pay attention to, which is what we were talking about in the article. People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. Melissa: Sure. I threw out a lot.

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Families Family IT Patients 107

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

AMMD

APRIL 1, 2025

Technically, no… but it’s a little more complicated than that. Before I do, I want to set the intention for this article. Additionally, ensuring you have a proper diagnosis prevents treating the wrong problem. How Is Candida Diagnosed? If you suspect candida overgrowth, getting an accurate diagnosis is essential.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed. A review article, which I still like to go to. And I also remember.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 96

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary We are dusting off our crystal balls today with three amazing guests who have all recently published an article on prognosis over the last couple months: Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. This is Eric W id era.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Eric 01:07 So we have an amazing lineup of guests and we’re going to be talking about a pragmatic study on advanced care planning, which we’ll have links to in our show, notes for the actual article. Yeah, we did not do that because dementia is so often under diagnosed and there’s a lack of awareness.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. Here are some articles that Kira and I have written about the topic, and that’s really how my interest in addressing sexual health concerns started. And I said, sure. And she’s like, is it okay for me to kiss my husband now? Sharon 15:21 Right.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? I think, Winston, in your article, you even said for probably brief periods of time, they’re still conscious. Eric 30:09 And again, listeners, we’ll have links to Sean’s article on our website. It’s coming up very much right now.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. And these are just little clips from news articles and shows because people find it really interesting when they meet a real happy doctor. Housewives were burned out. I’m being real.

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