PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

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. Concerned parents, fueled by a mountain of medical information online, often arrive expecting tests rather than provider expertise to determine the presence or absence of pneumonia.

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Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice 52

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. uh, ill defined epigastric or chest pain, and it’s often worse by eating or lying down after meals.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body. But it’s this physical sensation that comes along with these ideations. Alex Gamble, do you have a song?

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Nicole: I was just going to add that I think a helpful analogy for me has been to think about our clinical assessment, sort of like if a physical therapist just stood at the door with their ear up to the door to listen if a patient fell, and then made a recommendation plan for exercise.

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IT Patient-Centered Hospital Individual 124

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. How much should it change how we think about making a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? Great to be back. Absolutely.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. And, that’s to help people who have serious illness, that’s to help people who have diseases of aging at a younger age, people who are homeless, people who are incarcerated.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. But even within the constraints of evidence-based practice, clinicians still have to make that initial decision, is this a case of X, Y, or Z? Amber: Thank you guys.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111