PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Do you think that medical-legal concerns also play a role? I think medical-legal implications do play a role, and there’s been studies on that, but it’s mostly in the general EM literature, not as much in pediatrics. And so we routinely do outreach with our community providers. Nobody wants to miss an appendicitis.

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Families Family Hospital Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. Where are we with a lot of these medications?

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations. Are medications part of that, too? So, a lot of medications, you can see the secondary effects of dysphagia causing those, as well.

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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. pylori, medication overuse, particularly NSAIDs or other stressors. All right, let us shift gears to gastritis. Non invasive H.

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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:32 For us, answering that question today, we have Joe Greer, who’s a psychologist and associate professor of psychology at MGH and Harvard Medical School. We would make referrals to psycho oncology. I would make referrals to Joe as well as part of the team. Alex, who is gonna be answering that question?

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. Somebody who’s older, maybe just diagnosed them with very mild dementia. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time.

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