Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It gathers contextual information on physical, cognitive, mental, and social health, and generates an automated summary report of potential vulnerabilities. Study design: A qualitative descriptive study design was utilized. Setting or dataset: Community-based practice. Population studied: Older adults aged 65 years and above.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While SMS is well established for chronic physical conditions, evidence is lacking to support the implementation of structured SMS programs for common mental disorders, and particularly anxiety. Secondary outcome measures include self-reported instruments for quality of life, anxiety and depressive symptoms, recovery, and service utilization.

Management 130

Management Illness Clinic Mental Health 130

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

We have the chance to support each other by breaking the stigma, utilizing local and federal resources, and better recognizing the signs and symptoms. Therapists and counselors, as well as community support groups, can provide much-needed guidance. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year. What is Mental Health?

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Family Medicine DO Education 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Objectives Define likelihood ratios and their utility in diagnostic reasoning Identify how likelihood ratios alter the probability of a diagnosis Apply likelihood ratios in clinical reasoning What are likelihood ratios and how do they work? There are multiple physical exam findings associated with ascites including: Bulging flanks (LR = 1.9)

Clinic 52

Clinic Diagnosis Hypertension Patients 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

These factors may have impacted their diet, physical activity, and medications, thus impacting their creatinine levels and the inputs that we use for GFR. Our esteemed publications should ensure that investigations that utilize racial variables follow these guidelines before being published. J Epidemiol Community Health.

Clinic 52

Clinic Education Clinical Practice Patient-Centered 52

PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Numerous studies have found that radiographs performed in these clinical conditions rarely reveal information necessitating a change in ED management despite high CXR utilization and wide variation in both children’s specialty hospitals and general EDs. Evaluation of the utility of radiography in acute bronchiolitis. PMID: 28763554.

Asthma 52

Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. We talk about diagnosis, et cetera, but it’s almost more of a community conversation. Anna 22:46 I actually think you could.

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. Eric: I also wonder, is it just the utilization review standpoint? 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. Raele: Yeah, it’s beautiful, colorful images.

IT 125

IT Patient-Centered Hospital Individual 125

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. So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. Word of mouth spread rapidly. And the number of calls for falls dropped.

Community 116

Community Transportation IT PCP 116

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. Yannis Valtis, Ebi Okah, and Carine Davila, about research in their respective fields. Calac, Victor A.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Utilities Hospital Internal Medicine 52

AMMD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This order involves cellular creation, utilization, division, regulation, and disintegration. In my interview with Dr. Nasha Winters , we discuss the monumental shift taking place in the medical community. Your body interprets physical and emotional stress the same way. What Is Cancer? Something this process goes wrong.

IT 130

IT Chronic Disease Patient-Centered Utilities 130

PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Recognizing Hypertensive Emergencies The end-organ dysfunction component of this diagnosis presents as particular symptoms, physical exam findings, or laboratory and imaging results. Additionally, hydralazine is another agent that was previously utilized in pediatric hypertensive emergencies.

Hypertension 75

Hypertension Management Physicals Lab Testing 75

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

In their communities? And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. With their regular providers? Eric: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 123

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

Patient-Centered 133

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 133

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

So I wonder Nathan, comment, if you could for us, on these comics, graphic art as a mechanism for teaching people, whether it’s within the palliative care community or the broader audience of clinicians that this clearly would appeal to as well. But yeah, there’s a growing community of graphic medicine folks. Nathan: Yeah.

IT 145

IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

FDA Law

JULY 9, 2024

geographic location, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical and mental disabilities, pregnancy status, lactation status, and co-morbidity) may impact outcomes. Although these are the characteristics required to be included by FDORA, the Draft Guidance notes that other factors (e.g.

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Clinic Provider Individual IT 59

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). I wonder if you could tell that story for our listeners. George Soros had the project on Death in America.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

None of the changes that we saw in end-of-life care processes relied on specialist palliative care increases or resources, which is really important because seven of the 10 hospitals that participated were rural or community-based, which is where most Americans receive their care, and also where specialist palliative care is often most limited.

Consulting 116

Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. It’s not just about physical symptom management. It’s about coping.

Patient-Centered 120

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? But we all know intuitively as clinicians and as people in the community, we see people have these events and then we see them have a much faster decline after that. In the community? And the government can do something about that?!?

Illness 63

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 63

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. Whereas with comprehensive dementia care, what you really need is a lot of the support that is delivered in the community. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73