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.

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Family Families Hospital Patient-Centered 101

FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The protocol should also include a plan for clinical referral and support services if any developmental problems are identified during the follow-up. Additionally, the Guidance states that sponsors should provide study plans for FDA review. Patient/population-specific considerations include the timing and frequency of assessments.

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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. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § a) Offense.–Except

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Lab Testing Individual Referral Patient-Centered 52

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. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § a) Offense.–Except

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Lab Testing Individual Referral Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Upgrades to the ABIM website and Physician Portal for 2025, designed to make it easier for both physicians and the public to find information. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.

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Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

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. Eric 10:25 Great.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Alex and I did a study on over 2000 community dwelling older adults, and we found that over two thirds of people had geriatric conditions, these geriatric syndromes, and palliative care related problems like pain, difficulty climbing stairs. One of my good friends, Jerome Kim, is a community oncologist. Throw it in the trash.”

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. I mean, there’s a workforce shortage of palliative care providers.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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. So that’s a piece that I think is important for providers anywhere along that process to be asking about driving. “Do you guys do this?”

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. It’s by choice, just like in the community. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. Only about 5% of the population is female.

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Family Families IT Community 132

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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. Look at the way they talk to the public, referral like HIV prep. So that’s the other part.

Illness 101

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending. You know your patients’ evolving story as well as their family, friends, coworkers, and the peculiarities of their local community.

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Family Physician Family Families GP 130

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. As Pahlavi said, you could refer to other providers.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

The reason I chose this song is because I’m currently working on bringing advanced care planning sessions to the Latino community. In our planning sessions, one of the biggest barriers to advanced care planning in this community is just talking about death. It was information about our ACP facilitator.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? So provide multiple sort of concrete examples of what you’re talking about. Areej 24:39 For sure.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

What was life for you as a provider pre-pandemic? And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. And so we’re able to provide access to those patients that may be home-bound or home limited or have a lot of struggles to get in. What did we learn during the pandemic? Where we should be going?

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