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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

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We didn’t have medications that were effective with a few side effects. And this is not about treating dementia as a disease of the brain in isolation from the person. I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. They have complex medical regimens.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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Summary Transcript CME Summary When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy” (GDMT) and what might be considered runaway polypharmacy? Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. And the song is entitled medication.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

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Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. We got some really special guests with us. Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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These are patients who had a pre-existing chronic disease, very broadly defined. COPD, heart failure, solid oncology, hematologic malignancy, dementia, ALS, interstitial lung disease, several others. Eric: And who are the patients including in this trial, again? Kate: These are very sick patients. Kate: Sure. Why another study?

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

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And I graduated from medical school in the early 80s. And I was working at the time at Yale in New Haven, and I became medical director of a facility which was initially created in New Haven as a hospice like facility for people with HIV, which is in late 1995 and in 1996 when the Protease inhibitors came along. Meredith 09:33 Yes.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. Annals of Int Med. This is Eric Widera.

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