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You don’t need to order comprehensive viral panels for most patients

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The Choosing Wisely Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recommendations The Choosing Wisely Campaign Toolkit Expert Contributors Olivia Ostrow, MD Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ontario, Canada olivia.ostrow@sickkids.ca Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e., for bronchiolitis and 1.5% isolation for SARS-CoV-2).

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Also the same hospital system?

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Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Dr. McDonald spoke about ABIM’s work engaging early career physicians (those who earned initial certification within the last 10 years), including presentations and listening sessions at recent national meetings. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. He suggested a similar approach for APDEM’s annual meeting.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Not my normal clinical practice. It’s just so interesting the myriad of ways that this can present in our behavior when we neglect to just look within. Definitely a deviation. Keri: Yeah.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

And so I was really thinking about why are some of my people that are hospitalized doing better than others? Ashwin Kotwal: Yeah, and Thomas, I know this is something we’ve talked about as a group too, which is how do you translate some of these scales that we use in large studies to our clinical practice?

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