PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? You see something on a bedside swallow, or on a FEES, you’re diagnosing what you think it is. Eric: So let me ask you this, Rale, because I feel like, it could be wrong, but the most common time where we start diagnosing dysphagia is during a hospital stay. Nicole: Yes.

IT 124

IT Hospital Patient-Centered Individual 124

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

It’s under recognized, under diagnosed, under treated, under discussed, understudied as a result. Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. But that combination is actually quite common, and it’s quite challenging to diagnose and manage, at least in the traditional sense.

IT 120

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right? The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? And in this way, we start to collect their own language.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Not my normal clinical practice. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. I wish they were just a diagnosis. I recently had this patient in clinic who, for complicated reasons that I won’t go into, our outpatient clinic had to put limits on his frequency of visits with me.

Patients 109

Patients IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. Before the primary care visit.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79