FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022. Expected clinical benefits should be weighed against risks before beginning therapy. ER/LA opioids should be “reserved for severe, continuous pain.”. Methadone should not be the first choice for an ER/LA opioid. RR-3):1–95.

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Patients Patient-Centered ER Individual 52

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. There’s a small book called Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings written by Hilary Moss.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

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. You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. Corita 00:30 Thank you.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

About half of patients who are over the age of 65 start dialysis with a GFR of over 9, which is sort of the level below which we have clinical trial evidence for suggesting that there may not be a benefit to starting at that level of GFR. I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. It’s easy.

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. It was statistically significant, but not all of it was clinically meaningful.

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IT Provider Patients Families 113

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. What are your thoughts about using humor to convey ideas, thoughts, clinical work? And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. Alex: Right.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It’s that mixture of intimacy and vulnerability, of shared clinical experiences, that fosters a sense of belonging. We definitely draw on the sciences, on biomedical science, on clinical trials, on pharmaceutical design and all sorts of things like that. There’s obviously a lot of flaws in the healthcare system.

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IT Community Patients Families 107

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And I think when COVID started, I was in a number of meetings about how we were going to think about CPR from this point forward, given that it was would really expose healthcare workers to easy transmission of this virus that we didn’t fully understand yet. And that person came back to life.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. Bob: Exactly. It could be anybody.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

I would talk about this, except I was a clinician, and I’m seeing these folks in the hospital and in clinic. The journal section’s requirements are the same as for a clinical investigation. So they need mainstream healthcare, and they need housing support. ” It was in my slide deck. Really appreciate that.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

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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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115