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Risk Factors for Coercion in Open Psychiatric Inpatient Wards

Physician's Weekly

Diagnoses of organic (IRR 13.43 [13.38, 13.48], P < 0.001), psychotic (IRR 1.79 [1.79, 1.79], P < 0.001), or bipolar disorders (IRR 2.17 [2.16, 2.17], P < 0.001) were also associated with higher coercion risk.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. In particular, mental health integration and issues in pain and in palliative care. So how we screen for mental health distress is really important. Des, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: Yeah.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

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?

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So you, Jennifer, probably have, like, the most cited, probably should be the most cited randomized controlled trial of palliative care and lung cancer patients that everybody, every palliative care article I’ve seen, whether or not it works, always includes, it was outpatient palliative care in lung cancer patients.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. ” And then, the health plan can say, “Can you follow-up on this? To Susan’s point.