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

PEMBlog

Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e., antivirals for influenza) or public health recommendations (e.g., isolation for SARS-CoV-2).

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

GeriPal

So, the consult will come in and then we’ll do what we call a clinical bedside evaluation, where we’ll go and see the patient at the bedside. So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. But again, most of my clinical practice, until recent years, has been in the acute care setting.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

So you have the consultation. So from the simulation, the patient goes home, the physician and the physicist and the dosimetry department put together a treatment plan, and then the patient comes back for their actual fractions of their actual treatments. Procedure as well as the treatments. Like, is it just boom?

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

GeriPal

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? Julianne: I’ll also add I mean another potential approach is also integrating social connection into existing treatment plans.

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