Vascular Physician

JULY 11, 2021

How is Raynaud's Phenomenon diagnosed? Educating patients on the link between emotional stress and Raynaud's phenomenon is important and attention to mental health disorders should be considered. Evaluation begins with three screening questions: Are your fingers or toes unusually sensitive to cold?

Referral 52

Referral Mental Health Patients Diagnose 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. 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. So, among folks ever diagnosed with head and neck cancers, prevalence of substance use disorders was 9%.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. This is Eric Widera.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119