Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Rationale for a Dedicated Screening Instrument Growing evidence indicates that perioperative pharmacodynamics differ between cannabis users and non‑users. “[P]reliminary The tool should be incorporated in clinical practice,” the study team concluded, “and subsequent validation studies are needed.”

Clinical Practice 52

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 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

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? Eric 11:57 In, let’s say, my clinic. Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. Eric 08:05 Yeah.

IT 121

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

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 120

Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 120

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 121

Screening IT Families Family 121

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Katie: Yeah.

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. How should we screen for cognitive impairment? So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic. Nate 05:29 Ooh.

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97