GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. And I practiced both on the palliative care consult team and in the ICU.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Eric: And how did you do that? Eric: So how do you put that all together?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? She falls and breaks her hip. She has advance dementia.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. So there’s some stuff out there like that, but also using AI to determine who at high risk and should get a palliative care consult. This is Eric Widera. Like who is at high risk or low risk? Whether or not be ICU and sepsis.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? What is sludge?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Corita 09:39 Yeah, so we used the electronic health record, I think, in support. Yeah, that’s a more complicated story.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. This shouldn’t have happened. We can make this better.

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