PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

And how do we actually strike the right balance between obtaining essential diagnostic information and avoiding unnecessary imaging? The other thing though that’s important is a lot of times, you know, the CT gives us good information and it’s fast, but it may not be the best test. You’re absolutely right, Brad.

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Families Family Hospital Patient-Centered 102

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The draft guidance states that this addition is consistent with FDA’s obligations under the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention That Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act , which required FDA to update existing guidance documents to address how the Agency may apply breakthrough criteria to such products.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Our reader informed us of two additional prescribing/dispensing red flags that DEA has alleged are unresolvable that he wanted to share with the pharmacy community. Gulf Med Pharmacy; Decision and Order, 86 Fed. 72,694, 72,703 (Dec. Deborah Dowell et al., 1, Recommendation 3.

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Clinical Practice Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 59

CDOCS

APRIL 7, 2021

This will continue to build our reputation as local experts to assist our referring dentist in a team approach in providing the highest quality of care to our community.</span></p> & Comparison of endodontic diagnosis and treatment planning decisions using cone-beam volumetric tomography versus periapical radiography. <em>J

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Research suggests most CXRs are performed because ED clinicians (and many parents) are concerned for the possibility of missing pneumonia or another diagnosis requiring specific management. But it’s just a CXR right?

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. That can be incredibly informative. We’re doing this also through the inpatient portal because we were trying to get as much information in there as possible.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Our Community Advisory Board (CAB) guided this work. Cancer Prevention: Little to no awareness or information about cervical cancer. Verbatim transcripts in English and Spanish were analyzed in NVivo 14.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Eric: Great. I want to thank both of you for joining us.

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IT Hospital Patient-Centered Individual 124

FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

There are widely varying figures, ranging from 66% to 90% depending on the source of information.) As, based on the results of my whole genome sequencing , I have a moderate risk for melanoma, a reliable and easily accessible source of information could be incredibly useful for me, too, thus I tried to find the best tools possible.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Lee: And I think there’s a dearth of information about what proportion of nursing home residents have diabetes. So say you have somebody new diagnosis, you’ve just put them on Metformin and something else, and you slap a CGM on them and they can see it. They need to be back on insulin.”

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 74

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Jackson Supreme Court decision has made it disproportionately difficult for people of lower socioeconomic status and members of the BIPOC community to access safe and legal abortion services. Results: Our intervention led to discussion about social justice issues including reproductive health and abortion in our family medicine residency.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here.

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Lab Testing Individual Referral Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. I agree with you.

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Myriad Genetics

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Her routine mammogram had detected something suspicious, prompting an ultrasound, which lead to a biopsy, which ultimately lead to her diagnosis. After her diagnosis and treatment, Storm reflected on her experience. Storm was first diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in January 2024 and underwent a lumpectomy shortly after.

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Diagnosis Diagnose Families Family 52

Myriad Genetics

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

November is Family Health History Month, an observance dedicated to sharing crucial health information within families and encouraging individuals to take proactive steps in their healthcare. Shortly after her breast cancer diagnosis, Kathy became involved in patient advocacy – even before she knew of her own genetic predisposition to cancer.

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Families Family Screening Individual 52

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. For instance, our indigenous communities, such as some of our indigenous communities use the Term two spirit, to identify their sexual orientation and also sometimes their gender identity.

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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. Emmy: I would say one big thing, though, is I try to not just make any decision based on a diagnosis, perhaps obviously. “Do you guys do this?”

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This 2022 draft guidance proposed that certain non-addictive medical products for pain or addiction treatment could be eligible for breakthrough designation, aligning with the Agency’s obligations under the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention That Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act.

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Medical Diagnosis Healthcare Clinic 53

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate. Emily: Looks like informed decision making around family involvement. Lynn: Sure. Anne Rohlfing: Yeah.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. Anyways, the current study is looking at the impact of music on well being after a new dementia diagnosis. So we’ve recruited 25 dyads, like I said, really close to their diagnosis.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. And it’s to the degree that any retirement community could be described as a party town, this is a party town made the news not too long ago for having a really high incidence of STD’s.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So, I’m super proud of being able to reach out to people in rural communities. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: I’ve heard that before.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources. So it matters.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

I will say one of the challenges in the field is many hospices don’t know how to take care of children or young people, and so you have these folks in the community who you’re trying to provide services to, and you just can’t connect them to the same types of resources you’re used to using. It was incredible.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And then from that, through community activists, ACT UP, legislators who felt that there needed to be something done, doctors within CDCR who cared passionately about the HIV population and others, all came together and we were able to eventually get funding for this 17-bed inpatient hospice. It’s by choice, just like in the community.

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Families Family IT Community 132

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. So their practices were really collaborative and informed. I have oncology on the brain.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. ” I spent 32 years in information technology, would you believe, and switched over to this full time a few years ago.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Eric: So what do we do with the information? Joel: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a springboard for this conversation we discuss new prognostic models developed to predict (simultaneously) mortality, disability, and mobility impairment ( Alex Lee first author, JAGS ) and mortality for people with dementia residing in the community ( James Deardorff first author, JAMA IM ). . Eric: Well, let me push you on that.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. We can talk about the informal and the formal differences in expansion later. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I you use the Lee Schonberg prognostic index for community dwelling older adults you will be directed to the tool, and it will automatically place the life expectancy at the calculated prognostic estimate. . And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. See screenshot below.

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Clinic IT Patients Medical 68

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. It was about me talking about what happens about six months, when you have six months or less to live, the general information of what people usually look like. Alex: Hsien? Hsien: Oh, man.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Eric: If I remember your article correctly, there was maybe some better things with for-profits, like more community engagement with low-income communities and more engagement with minority communities.

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Families Family IT Patients 106

BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) Fam Med Community Health.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And when you and I talk about, what’s the key medical decision or diagnosis that we’re making all the time, we’re making a decision about like, “Is this patient sick enough to die? So we did a perfect cross so that the race and actual primary diagnosis was perfectly matched across groups.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111