GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Here at UW Health, we call it our Swallow Service.

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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

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Ruth: Decision-making processes, we saw the lower nursing homes tended to have a clear process for advanced care planning and for decision making to include families in an informed decision. It improves symptom management.

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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? We published a nice piece, I think it was in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

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? And we’ll say that we will link to an article that Hope and Thaddeus and others, I think Tim Quill was on there, wrote in journal, Pain and symptom Management, I think it was. Who do you give informed consent to?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. It was a letter from the clinic introducing it. It was information about our ACP facilitator. So the idea is to really normalize advanced care planning as part of clinical workflows.

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