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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

So at least in my oncology community, I really didn’t have anyone guiding or supporting or mentoring me. And for the most part, it’s really hard to start building an evidence base in the community setting. Most people aren’t coming to UCSF or MGH for their healthcare. ” Right? But we have to.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

Many were community hospitals. The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. These were EHR documents in the patient’s chart built within the Atrium Health’s electronic health record, where they document other things. Kate 16:25 Yeah, right.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. So, where they end up after, what happens to them and where they end up is actually a big deal. Samir: Yeah.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. But, what you need is a community-based game there. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. You go back home.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care. You sort of had a month after all of those events. Sure, it has palliative care in the title. Jennifer 27:11 Yes.