GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So, if it’s a hospitalized patient, usually the referral will come through to the SLP service. 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. Eric: So, given that, what does the assessment for dysphagia look like?

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

And sort of a few years ago, we would sometimes see referrals a bit later than we would have liked. We are Seeing referrals at an earlier time point, especially at a point that I feel that I can really help a patient. Is it normally the oncologist who’s making the referrals to you or do they come from people outside of oncology?

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time?” If the buprenorphine is being prescribed for opioid use disorder, they’re not going to be following… Should they be following that longitudinally? ” Thoughts on that?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So I’m in a specialty clinic, so I’m in this interdisciplinary memory assessment clinic. So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. So we’re talking about primary care and so I’m a little bit biased here.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy. We want to be seen for the entirety of who we are as human beings.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. But what we wanted to do was to control for regional … what’s that called? Market factors that may influence hospital transfers and feeding tube use.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? This is just because this arose organically in clinical practice as a way of balancing these underlying competing ethical issues. And the family members said, okay, now’s the time we need to honor her request.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88