Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess provider perceptions of the clinical effectiveness of telemedicine video visits, immediately post-encounter, compared to in-person visits. Setting: Providers across six Northern California clinic sites surveyed over an 8-week period (March 21-May 16, 2023).

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A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management. My theory is that the behavioral health staff members felt isolated and not integrated with the primary care providers. No counseling is offered. A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

As your trusted healthcare providers in Mesa, Arizona, we’re committed to helping you understand and access the preventive services that can keep you and your family healthy for years to come. Our female practitioners understand the unique health needs of women in our community.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Many clinics are already overburdened, and as diabetes rates continue to climb, the situation will only become more strained. Third, leveraging AI and machine learning to sift through patient data and provide actionable insights is another key strategy to reduce the burden on clinicians.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Questions remain regarding what impact this transformation will have on the relationships between primary care providers and patients. Study design and analysis: A rapid ethnographic approach including observations of virtual primary care visits and follow-up interviews with providers, patients and caregivers was used.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Within primary care most administrative work requires both information management and clinical judgment.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 6, 2025

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants: These advanced practice providers have advanced education and training, allowing them to perform tasks traditionally done by physicians. Nurses: Nurses work as part of a team to provide care and support, and educate patients about health conditions.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

JUNE 2, 2025

Medical biller: Medical billers are responsible for submitting claims to patients’ insurance providers, and following up to ensure the practice receives payment. Authorization specialist: Authorization specialists are responsible for getting pre-authorizations from patients’ insurance providers to ensure upcoming services are covered.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context : The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to explore the qualities that enable greater team adaptability, as a team’s ability to respond effectively to disruption is a good indicator of how well it functions. Results : A total of 76 nurses were interviewed. Outcome Measures N/A.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: For over 25 years, the burden of clinical administrative services has been cited as contributing to the stress and burnout experienced by family physicians. At the system level, participants underscored the need for compensation for administrative time and funding to increase clinic staff (e.g.

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Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

In this blog, we’re going to outline four key ways temporary medical staff such as locum tenens providers can help healthcare facilities maintain continuity of high-quality patient care in the face of growing shortages. Enter temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens providers. Many healthcare facilities in the U.S.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding Its Role in Healthcare Urgent care clinics are designed to handle non-life-threatening situations that still require timely medical attention. They’re like a hybrid between a primary care clinic and the ER—open late, available on weekends, and usually accepting walk-ins. What is Urgent Care?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older. nurse practitioners can practice independently.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. And even though ACE students have been shown to have great clinical outcomes like decreased hospital harms, yes, health system leaders care about that.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. I’m guessing not. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Today we are delighted to welcome from the East Coast, we have Nadine Carter, who’s a nurse practitioner who spent seven years in outpatient endocrinology and is now a hospice and palliative care fellow at Dartmouth Health and instructor at Dartmouth. Alex Smith: That’s a compelling clinical argument… Tamryn: It is.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems. Our Mesa clinic is conveniently located and designed for accessibility, with same-day appointments often available for urgent needs.

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Pamela Wible MD

MAY 22, 2025

Whether you’re suffering from PHP entrapment, DEA audits, or the stress of building your own business, we provide support, strategies, and connection to help you live your dreams. We’ve been gathering weekly for nearly ten years to provide a physician lifeline. Must be a Fast Track grad or own an independent practice. (60

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 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

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Simone, welcome to GeriPal.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

The questionnaire gathers information about clinical work and practice patterns, and ABIM uses the information to help update exam blueprints, develop policies for initial certification and MOC, and ensure adequately diverse representation of the profession in research. ASH has engaged in lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. And I returned to school to become a nurse practitioner.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch:

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed. et al, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids-United States, 2022, CDC. We believe the proposed 2022 guideline provides much needed clarification of CDC’s recommendations for both practitioners and regulators. 7,838 (Feb.

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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. And Katie, as an advanced practice provider, is much better than I am at explaining how this works.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. So the palliative care service doesn’t necessarily need to provide those potentially. Do they need a palliative care doctor, nurse practitioner?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. I’m excited.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

I also spent one day at the Maine Family Planning clinic in Augusta, shadowing the head clinician, Lindsey Piper, NP. I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to shadow the head nurse practitioner at the Augusta clinic. Der Simonian wears, she also functions as the Medical Director at Maine Family Planning.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. They were all actually publicly traded or private equity owned for-profit hospice providers. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren.

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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. Duration should be individualized based on the specific patient’s clinical circumstances. Dowell D, Ragan KR, Jones CM, Baldwin GT, Chou R., RR-3):1–95.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Before we talk about miscommunication, would love to hear briefly from each of you, how or why did you get interested in this topic at all just around patient communication, patient-doctor communication, patient-provider communication. And any examples from your own clinical experiences of miscommunication? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. Alex 00:31 And we’re delighted to welcome Fernanda Bellolio, who is an emergency medicine physician and professor of emergency medicine at the Mayo Clinic. Corita 00:30 Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And I think also some of the stuff we’ll be talking about, when it comes to communication, I mean, a lot of the clinical encounter is listening to the music. Tell me about the clinical enc… How do you think the uncanny valley fits into medicine and communication training and skills? What is the uncanny valley? Eric: Yeah.

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