Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

An expert panel unveiled a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia patient care. 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.

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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 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

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 119

Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

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? Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. I’m guessing not.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 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?

IT 120

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

IT 66

IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 66

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

So we took this idea of, and it’s really an invitation from the national consensus project that every member of the team should be screening in all domains. So this is a practical, really basic idea that can be applied to clinical practice. So that means that we all screen for every domain in our interactions.

Screening 119

Screening IT Families Family 119