GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults? Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations.

Hospital 124

Hospital IT Patient-Centered Individual 124

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

So we measure things like hospitalizations and ed visits and the like, and those data are a bit weaker, but they’re also, you know, I think they need to be contextualized in what, why we would even want to reduce hospitalizations right. And this is, of course, an old and foundational idea about clinical practice.

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Also the same hospital system? I’m just stunned even writing that!

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 115

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And we’ll tell you the scope of practice, and this is top of license, and this is how you can best utilize a social worker and, no, actually that skillset belongs over here.” And I think now we’re at a place where we are taking back the ability to say, “No, actually, this is what a social worker does.

IT 102

IT Families Family Clinic 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? The specifics of how it does that depend on the population in which it’s implemented, and the outcome measure that is utilized. So incredibly muscular person.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98