Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A recent review of national diabetes treatment guidelines recommended adjustments to DM to reduce financial strain (eg, selecting lower cost medications), as well as directly intervening in response to an identified social need (eg, referral to a community-based service).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs.

Routine Screenings 52

Routine Screenings Screening Complication Diagnose 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Adults (≥18 years) who receive care at an affiliated clinic, screen positive for food insecurity, have a T2D diagnosis, and an A1c level > 7.5%.

Diabetes 130

Diabetes Clinic Transportation Internal Medicine 130

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. This actually frees up physicians to lean in and really understand their patient, to have the time and the capacity to do the appropriate diagnosis, but also to listen to them and to motivate them in their own care and wellness.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Patients Medical IT 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cervical cancer screening rates among middle to older age Latinas (>45yrs) - roughly 6.5 Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Our Community Advisory Board (CAB) guided this work. million people in the U.S. – lag behind.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Screening Transportation Diagnose 130

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Do you screen for lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and if so, how? If I was going to ask one question about this just as a screen, is there a way to ask this question that is not both stigmatizing, but people also understand and it gets around some of these issues. Eric 08:05 Yeah. Eric 08:19 Sure thing, if I’m honest.

IT 121

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. Does a good history matter anymore? Whats the role of assessing function? Great to be back.

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 25, 2025

Corley, MD, PhD I think I can speak for most physicians in saying that one of the most frustrating situations we face is late diagnosis of a serious condition. To improve early diagnosis and drive better outcomes, KPNC launched a powerful, integrated screening program that has saved thousands of lives. A third of U.S.

Screening 52

Screening Preventive Care Preventative Care Patient-Centered 52

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.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Diagnose Family Families 52

Myriad Genetics

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Kathy Baker’s journey as a two-time cancer survivor exemplifies the transformative power of genetic testing, particularly for families with a known BRCA1 mutation, and amplifies the importance of genetic testing even after a cancer diagnosis. I have breast exams, I have annual dermatology appointments, I do prostate screenings.”

Family 52

Family Families Screening Individual 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. Is there a screening tool that we can use, or just questions that you ask older adults around driving safety? “Do you guys do this?”

Families 102

Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. And this has been really interesting because people are like, they just got their diagnosis.

IT 98

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Think of the 10 years it takes to benefit from colon or breast cancer screening, which is designed to detect slow growing cancers. This tool provides a clinical recommendation for starting/stopping medications and cancer screening based on the prognosis of the patient in front of you. See screenshot below.

Clinic 68

Clinic IT Patients Medical 68

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 ). . James: Yeah. Eric: What other decisions?

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

I had it on my screen. 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. Maybe I could turn to both of you how you got interested in this.

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly has accumulated mountains of evidence for the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder as a specific condition primarily notable for a yearning over a year after the death. We say it’s about 4% of those who are bereaved, who are from community-based samples. This led her on a remarkable journey. So it’s different.

IT 100

IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. Alex 16:55 My guess is probably not something that most geriatricians or internists or family medicine docs caring for older people have on their differential diagnosis. Is a new diagnosis of HIV.

Primary Care 96

Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 96

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? Yeah, for sure.

Mental Health 124

Mental Health IT Community Individual 124

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . This has become a community of people all over the world who come together every week. The process of sharing that of literally of reading that poem in community has been amazing. Alex: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. Diane: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Darrell: And so I’d set up in conjunction with our emergency room team and our hospitalist, a 24/7 screening process for, at the time, anybody who’s over 65. The hospitalist didn’t want them screened, didn’t want to have any discussions with goals of care. The screening process is obviously shifted.

Nurse Practitioner 137

Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 137