Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

A significant difference emerged for only 1 policy—temporary firearm removal by law enforcement from individuals posing an immediate threat. Over 60% support was observed for 11 out of 14 child-safety-related firearm policies across both groups, with minimal variation. Support for this policy was 65% (CI: 0.51–0.79)

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The Motivated MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

However, I think it is important to highlight some of the more frequent offenders to describe how this commonly affects individuals’ lives. Though this is in no way an exhaustive list, the following represents what I believe to be the most common culprits of lifestyle creep and financial pressures in individuals’ lives.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In the wake of a hurricane as devastating as Helene, tens of thousands of individuals are likely filing claims, surely totaling billions of dollars. One of my first articles ever written on this site was titled: Emergency Fund: Your First Financial Goal. It has aged well I believe. What do you think? Stay motivated! The Motivated M.D.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? There’s an article about her in New York Times. So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. Who should get it if anyone?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

Researchers conducted a retrospective study to evaluate the distribution of PLASMIC Scores in patients with aHUS and assess its diagnostic utility in confirmed TMA cases. They used data from the eculizumab (NCT01194973) and ravulizumab (NCT02949128) clinical trials to calculate and assess PLASMIC Score distribution in individuals with aHUS.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

A greater social risk burden was linked to increased odds of unplanned healthcare utilization (severe vs none: OR, 3.5 [1.2-10.2]) Source: cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(25)00460-4/abstract The post Social Risk Burden and Its Impact on Healthcare Use in IBD first appeared on Physician's Weekly.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 29, 2025

In the PPMI cohort, 73% [n=593 of 810] of SAA-positive individuals with Parkinson’s disease experienced an unfavorable outcome over a median 4.5-year 4.41), P =0.03] cohorts, TTT also predicted cognitive decline in individuals with Alzheimer’s biomarker-negative in the PPMI cohort [n=355, HR 1.80 (95% CI 1.03–3.18),

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Between 2007 – 2019, Black individuals experienced a higher death rate for opioid overdose deaths than any other racial or ethnic group. These narratives have vilified individuals who would benefit from comprehensive, person-centered substance use treatment, rather than incarceration and other adverse harms.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. Before we discuss each individual savings account, let us first highlight exactly what it means to ‘automate’ your savings. Saving money is simple but not easy.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Males had higher levels of urinary mast cell mediators—LTE4, 2,3-BPG, and tryptase—particularly in atopic individuals, compared to females. Source: annallergy.org/article/S1081-1206(25)00270-4/abstract The post Gender Influences Urinary Mast Cell Biomarkers first appeared on Physician's Weekly.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. I’d be operating at the top of what I’m capable of doing, to provide really tailored and individualized care for my patients and their care partners, where they are.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Having read at least some of your research articles there’s a lot of focus around this intersection between what happens to people after the hospital stay post-acute, especially in the cancer patients. Eric: I felt that reading the article. We’ll have a link to that article on our show notes. Ann: Likely.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. And I had no idea what that would look like or what I would do until I happened upon an article by actually a fellow Winnipegger, a man named Jim Brown who was an expert in mood disorders. William Breitbart, Kathleen Foley, Jerome Posner, Nessa Coyle.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

And if you want to learn more about buprenorphine from these amazing palliative care clinicians and others, check out of some of these articles: Learn more about caring for those with substance use disorder: . Article on buprenorphine in the elderly. I always thought this article came out 2011. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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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 ). It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! Respectful disagreement is in short supply these days. OK, I’ll step off my soap box. AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. Melissa, do you want to describe that paper? Melissa: Sure.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We’re gonna be talking about three different articles that are gonna be presented Saturday, I believe, at the annual meeting. Three different articles. The black individuals wanted to have a separate one from the white individuals. And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. I’m Na Ouyang.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. I highly encourage you. Kate 13:59 What did we do?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

But if you want to learn more, check out these links: The report by NASEM titled “ The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality ” The website for the Moving Forward We will also link to the JAGS articles co-authored by seven committee members that focus on specific recommendations of the NASEM report when they get published (stay tuned).

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. I mean, those articles didn’t get published in jama, so in journals, but we had qualitative.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Here are a couple of articles if you want to do a deeper dive: Dani and colleagues article on Psychiatry and Palliative Care: Growing the Interface Through Education. Dani and colleagues article on Palliative Care Psychiatry: Building Synergy Across the Spectrum. Eric 33:23 Article on Thaddeus Pope. Oh, yeah, yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. Individuals over 65 years of age at home Yes 23 (65.7) 150 (54.3) 126 (45.7)

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Tsai-Chin’s article, published in Lancet Healthy Longevity, found a tantalizing hint that countries with stronger safety nets had lower incidence of wealth shocks, and less of a deleterious impact of the wealth shock on cognitive function. And a couple of classic articles in this area. Alex 07:21 Yeah, I think that’s great.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Again, as Greg said, where the individual chooses what works best for them. This is reaching the highest utilizers with a wraparound suite of services. To Susan’s point.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: … you’re getting paid for individual encounters, not going to people’s homes, not being paid for all of the additional support that’s needed for comprehensive cancer care. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. Malaz: Correct. And guess what?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The report found that the number of potential caregivers for an individual 80 or older will decrease significantly by 2050. ” The monthly budget goes toward crafts, books, coffee, snacks, and some utilities for the two-hour meetings. ” This article is part of a partnership with NPR and WVIA. from an estimated 6.9

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

You wrote the SF Chronicle article on an op-ed. We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. But you’ve got to make it simple and it can’t be to sort of one individual, it needs to be to a practice and that sort of thing.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today we offer the article below on one of those pieces: an HHS report released to the public last Thursday outlining the Biden Administration’s strategies on drug pricing and payment reform. Medicare negotiation authority; encourage biosimilars and generic drug utilization).

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