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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

During these regular appointments, doctors conduct various tests and screenings to catch issues early. If you have a chronic condition like asthma, diabetes, or arthritis, unexpected complications or flare-ups can occur at any time. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! Why is it called a clinic?

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. It used to be a much more complicated model. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. David: Exactly.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. And so the video consult was what became the mode. Marie 03:42 So probably the most important thing is we developed the consultation as a culturally based consultation process. And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

But that was a small pot of money and we went to first call a handy person, it was going to be $500 for a consultation, let alone the installation, and we were like, “This is absolutely cost-prohibitive. In addition to the grab bars, we have also helped train the EMS professionals in different lenses about screening.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? So I’m just going to share on my screen. We see how hard it is. We see when they don’t understand.

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