GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. That put me in the emergency room. I’d been a nurse at the time, and I went back to do my clinicals in an oncology clinic locally. They just kept at it. Is that your feeling, too?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

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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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. These were clinically significant and statistically significant improvements. Emergency rooms. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. Why is that important in the emergency room? And then we had clinical decision support.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare. Alex: Bernie.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Gretchen: Yeah, I think probably the underlying story here is that I’m really good at doing negative randomized clinical trials, but there is a good thing about doing a big clinical trial, which is that you get tons of data even if you don’t end up with the result that you want. And that’s how we connected.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And when I was getting my PhD, I wanted to find something that spoke to me, and I had been doing clinical work in nursing homes. Another one had to do with the category of medical and mental healthcare providers and care. Some take care of people who’ve got more healthcare needs, more mental illness, more dementia.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. What motivated you to reach out to the healthcare audience in this way? The first guest is Liz Salmi.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

That said, I think we, and I mean collectively, not just in critical care, I think we as a healthcare system, I think we’re really good at keeping people alive. The post Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Scientific Evidence of Marijuana’s Pharmacological Effects, If Known HHS found that marijuana abuse can lead to negative consequences that include addiction and the need for medical attention through poison center calls or emergency room visits. Basis at 18; NPRM at 44,605. Basis at 24. NPRM at 44,607. Basis at 7-8; NPRM at 44,614.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. And then, the system responds in turn.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. We do talk about healthcare policy. We do a lot of clinical focused discussions. But if I were in the PCP setting or clinic, again, I would definitely use it. Anybody do.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. And that’s just one example of how, especially when you’re on the clinical side, talking about it as a science and talking about it to scientist pain is very, very clean.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I’m worried about all of us as healthcare workers, but particularly… And when I say particularly those in the hospital, because they are just tired. Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? If they had a healthcare agent, then this would be better, right?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? We have all of these models that are out there that have proven benefits for patients, for caregivers, and some of them for healthcare systems as far as saving money for, let’s say, Medicare. ” Diane: Fantastic.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience. Bruce: Sure.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Then they just looked at those people who were healthcare agents as assigned by durable power of attorney for healthcare and it didn’t really change anything. Does this issue ring true to you clinically? I think amputation was on there. It was like 60 to 65% accurate. Is that kind of where we are now? You’re in it.

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