GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. They’re dedicated, committed, they’re there for their patients and they understand it’s really important.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Davila is a palliative care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and her work examines racial and ethnic inequities in patient-clinician communication. Individuals who believe that genetic differences explain racial differences in health outcomes are more likely to practice race-based medicine.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Utilities Hospital Internal Medicine 52

FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed. et al, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids-United States, 2022, CDC. Proposed 2022 CDC Practice Guideline, 7,839. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline, 10. 7,838 (Feb. 10, 2022); Dowell, Deborah, MD.,

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Staff pointed out that there is potential that the report will inspire research into workforce issues by presenting data in a clear way that highlights disparities and trends over time.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Dr. Bonura noted the importance of maintaining practice integrity and protecting health equity. Society guests departed at this point in the meeting.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. Eric: And who are the patients including in this trial, again? Kate: These are very sick patients.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Eric 04:44 Could just make you a little bit more resilient, you can increase your Rvus so you can see more patients. But we can’t lose sight of the system level, the x individual outside of the individual, the system level factors that inform our day to day workplace experience. If you were just. Ishwaria 17:15 Billing.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers. What words to use?

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? Has kept me interested, the patient experience and the older adults in the community, their experience.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Caveat as well that RCTs should not be placed on pedestal as the only answer- often patients enrolled in RCTs do not represent real world patients – observational studies do. For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). LJ: And I think that’s one of the reasons that we’ve not done a very good job in research around… Eric: How are patients defining it? Yeah, I agree.

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

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. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor. Amber: Thank you guys.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

37:50​ Race vs. ancestry vs genetics–implications for research and clinical practice 52:02 ​What can we start doing tomorrow? How is racism causing the outcomes that I am seeing in my patient? This is done on an individual level, by offering existing support and resources, as well as on a systemic level through advocacy.

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Clinical Practice Clinic Medical Education 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes. And when I asked the patient, well, what happened, the test was sprung on them. Well, even for somebody like you, who’s pretty familiar with the instruments, it might cause distress for the patient, maybe their family.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. We’re just like, “Okay, I see this patient has a need. Okay, I see this team member has a need.

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IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Some of them are really deeply individual experiences.

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IT Patient-Centered Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Think chemotherapy to imminently dying patients, or CPR.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. We got rid of all these psychotropic medications and this person … one individual had had a vascular dementia. Nursing homes are subsidized by their Medicare, by their rehab patients. Physicians often not present except for an occasional monthly visit.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). Is that right?

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In particular we spend a good deal of time talking about what this means for asymptomatic patients who may have an abnormal biomarker, which by the proposed new definition would mean they would now have Alzheimer’s disease. So too systolic hypertension in elderly people, clinical trials. Eric: Wonderful. Jason: Oh, well.

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IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 115

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

Naweed Hayat, a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the University of California San Diego, who applies his own lived experience of resettlement to his clinical practice. A lot of compounding trauma occurs at the border that has potential downstream mental health implications for individuals and their families.

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Healthcare Provider Clinical Practice Clinic 52