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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

As many as 40% of these children will receive a chest x-ray (CXR) during their ED visit despite clinical guidelines advising most of these tests are low value. But it’s just a CXR right?

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. But again, most of my clinical practice, until recent years, has been in the acute care setting. Eric: I also wonder, is it just the utilization review standpoint? And so I always think of thickened liquids as a tool in our toolkit.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

We need to figure out how to create this community of palliative care social work scholars. And then I found other folks that were practicing like I did. It creates that community where you’re like, “Oh, I’m not alone. And I’ve got a whole community of people to support me.”

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. If it was going to be for 48 hours to get them through a community acquired pneumonia.