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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

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. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a clinical decision support? Long overdue.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . What are your thoughts about using humor to convey ideas, thoughts, clinical work? Occasionally, people will come to me and say, like when I’m meeting them in the clinic and say, “Hey, we Googled you. His work has been published in places like the L.A.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. We didn’t make them communicate it, but we focused them on it, which makes them more likely to then utilize that information. And it’s the right thing to do clinically for patients and families.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

And so the importance of the picture and the epiphany that really came many years later, I published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology called Dignity in the Eye of the Beholder. How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? Eric: So how do you do that?

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

And we had a greater decrease in symptom intensity at day seven versus the usual care group by both a clinically meaningful and a statistically significant difference. And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. It was not very different. It was not different.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults. And then, the system responds in turn. Alex: I want to pick up on this thread and talk- Lindsey: I really- Alex: Oh, Lindsey, jump in there.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive. Malaz: 1999, my friend. And I was terrified.