Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Anyone suffering from pain could register for the program without needing a referral or formal diagnosis from a health care practitioner. Among the 151 participants (15% of the total sample) who completed a PAM survey at baseline and follow-up, 69% (104/151) experienced a clinically meaningful increase of four points on the PAM scale.

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Management Utilities Referral Individual 130

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

At PACT Endocrinology, a referral isn’t required. Ask family and friends: If you have family members or friends who’ve been treated by an endocrinologist, ask them to recommend a good endocrinologist in your area. What Conditions Do Endocrinologists Treat?

Board-Certified 52

Board-Certified Primary Care Insurance Diabetes 52

PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Focusing a lot on when to image, when not to image, and how to communicate imaging decisions effectively with families.

Family 101

Family Families Hospital Patient-Centered 101

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Alright, let’s scope things out.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective Describe the population of patients referred to a palliative care clinic and observe their healthcare utilization patterns. Study Design Retrospective chart review of patients seen in a palliative care clinic between June 2023 and August 2023. Referrals were predominantly from Pulmonology (60%).

Patients 130

Patients Diagnosis Patient-Centered Utilities 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. How much should it change how we think about making a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? Great to be back. Absolutely.

Primary Care 95

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. By diagnosis? Kate: Sure.

Consulting 99

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

We’ve invited two palliative care doctors to talk about survivorship with us: Laura Petrillo , a physician-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Laura Shoemaker , an outpatient palliative care doctor at the Cleveland Clinic. Alex 03:45 This came up because I was in Cleveland Clinic doing grand rounds.

Patient-Centered 68

Patient-Centered Illness Clinic IT 68

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? I started our liver embedded liver clinic about seven and a half years ago.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

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.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Is it that they’re clinically depressed or that they’re understandably sad at the situation that they’re in or specific issues? We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” It’s high, it’s too high. Or is it that I’m just not screening? Eric: Yeah.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. There are clinics. If the community hospital isn’t able to provide a service like tertiary care, oncology care, they would get a referral to UCSF or wherever, just like anybody in the community. They suffered from it.

Family 132

Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. Alex 04:07 A heart failure clinic playing in the background. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. A pill organizer, having family. He’s in Boston. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. Eric 14:10 Yeah.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. As Sei Lee notes, the argument for developing prognostic models has won the day, and we increasingly use prognostic scores in clinical decision making.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. I was part of a writing group that wrote clinical guidelines for VSET for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

IT 87

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? 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. Jennifer 07:31 From.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. It’s hard for your family to know. That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? Like, should we be doing advance care planning?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Sharon Bober, clinical psychologist at DFCI, notes that clinicians can get caught in an anxiety cycle, in which they are afraid to ask, don’t ask, then have increased anxiety about not asking. And it actually came up during a clinical encounter that I had. So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full. Our women’s clinics are not plagued by political ideology. They gave me another referral and reported the practice to Medicare.

Vaccination 52

Vaccination Family Families IT 52