Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

An expert panel has created a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid healthcare professionals in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia care for patients. The tool should be incorporated in clinical practice,” the study team concluded, “and subsequent validation studies are needed.”

Clinical Practice 52

Clinical Practice Healthcare Professional Healthcare Experience Screening 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. And there’s so much work on, you know, you’ve got to take these medicines, you got to prevent this treat, that there isn’t that same sort of clinical momentum towards deprescribing. Alex 15:36 Yeah.

Specialization 120

Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 120

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

And it’s also hard because oftentimes people don’t even bring this up in clinic. Do you screen for lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and if so, how? Eric 11:57 In, let’s say, my clinic. Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. Eric 08:05 Yeah.

IT 121

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? So we put those cutoffs, and I asked the question earlier, how helpful are those cutoffs in clinical practice?

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening. So, creating a- Alex: Control condition.

Patient-Centered 91

Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. That the wish to… Eric: Complicated. Harvey: Complicated. Eric: So how do you do that?

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98