GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. And to Jackie and Bob, who are actually the other two people in our writing group.

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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

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. Now as I understand it, you and Dr. Widera talked in clinic about this and that. Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?”

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). 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. So, the top two were that assisted living communities, in those communities the resident should be present during assessment and care planning. Transcript.

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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

And so the key there is, of course these were prospectively measured where patients were called every month from 1998 through actually the present day among those who are still alive. But the pre-frail and the non-frail groups run exactly together along the risk of death was not that much greater among the pre-frail.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

The Attorney General, after considering HHS’ recommendations, “concludes that there is, at present, substantial evidence that marijuana does not warrant control under schedule I.” The Attorney General also released DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) opinions providing the rationale and support for the NPRM. NPRM at 44,619. Basis at 24.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. Like, should we be doing advance care planning? What’s the evidence behind it? Should we throw it out?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

And that’s where, based on this, I made a decision to leave University of North Carolina to come to Indiana University because my mentor, Chris Callahan, just received the grant from AHRQ to build the first randomized clinical control trial that evaluated the comprehensive dementia care model. Over 90% of the room. Diane: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. Annals of Int Med. 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Butstay with us heremight AI help to address some of the major issues present in surrogate decision making? Does this issue ring true to you clinically? In your clinical, everyday reality, this comes up and say, like, does this ring true to you from your work in the icu, from your work with patients? Teva, I want to go to you.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

The article “ American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration ” (May 30) presents us Canadians with welcome news. Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts.

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