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Register Now for the AAFP 2024 Fall Forum CME Event

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

The 2024 Fall Forum is designed to bring together family physicians, general practitioners, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants from across the state. The event focuses on the latest clinical practices, innovations in healthcare, and topics trending in the field of family medicine.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

So that’s one, this patient-centered geriatric assessment and management approach. Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. And so how can we adopt these five elements for the unique environment that we’re in?

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CDC Proposes Updating Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Warning Against Continued Misapplication

FDA Law Blog

Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed. et al, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids-United States, 2022, CDC. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline, 10. On February 10th, the agency published a comprehensive proposal to update the guideline. 7,838 (Feb.

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

GeriPal

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

And they begin on today’s podcast with one clinical ask: everyone should be a generalist and a specialist. They are looking to build on both their research and clinical programs and are interviewing candidates for the Associate Chief of Research and for full-time physician faculty to join them in the inpatient and outpatient setting.

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

FDA Law Blog

CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022. They do apply, however, to prescribing for pain management upon discharge. When appropriate, clinicians should suggest noninvasive, nonpharmacologic approaches to manage chronic pain. MMWR Recomm Rep 2022;71(No. RR-3):1–95.