GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. It’s under recognized, under diagnosed, under treated, under discussed, understudied as a result. That can be incredibly informative. Clinicians don’t ask about it.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? You see something on a bedside swallow, or on a FEES, you’re diagnosing what you think it is. So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. Are there things that we can do to prevent the complication of aspiration, which we most fear, aspiration pneumonia?

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IT Hospital Patient-Centered Individual 125

Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Understanding the patient’s medical history is crucial for an accurate diagnosis.

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Diagnosis Management Illness Diagnose 130

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

But I would say that in terms of education, it’s really complicated because it’s so confounded by socioeconomic status and so many social determinants of health. There’s not that much information on smoking and cognition. Or is it going to get worse because they’re now having these complications from lecanemab?

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Physicals IT Hypertension Education 86

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. Infections or allergic reactions can block your airway and lead to life-threatening complications. In severe cases, lack of oxygen can cause loss of consciousness, which can lead to life-threatening complications if not treated right away.

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ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Whether it's a urinary tract infection or a severe ear infection, urgent care clinics can quickly diagnose and treat infections.

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right?

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. Should we have like a list of diagnoses or prognosis. They need, they need some, a little bit of information and probably a little more than that, what we like to call an edge. That gets really complicated as well.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 100

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? And that I see as something very positive, because I think none of us like to spend hours documenting.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate. Emily: Looks like informed decision making around family involvement. Eric: Lynn or Anne? Lynn: Sure. Anne Rohlfing: Yeah.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We discuss with her how we should work-up and manage “urinary tract infections” (I’ve added air quotes to “UTI” in honor of Tom Finucane’s JAGS article titled “Urinary Tract Infection”—Requiem for a Heavyweight in which he advocated to put air quotes around the term UTI due to the ambiguity of the diagnosis.). I appreciate that information.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 123

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. So their practices were really collaborative and informed. I have oncology on the brain.

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then, I did a lot of introspection and realized that I’ve actually been doing this for folks in an informal way, family church members and friends, but I didn’t do it so well with my own mother. ” I spent 32 years in information technology, would you believe, and switched over to this full time a few years ago.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Where do we go with all of this information? People across all diagnoses want hospice care. People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. I think it goes back to Lauren.

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Families Family IT Patients 107

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. I wish they were just a diagnosis. Eric: Bored, thinking about- Dani: Feel helpless. Eric: Yeah. And that’s all normal, right? Dani: Yeah. What medications are the patient on?

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Patients IT Families Family 110

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. It was information about our ACP facilitator.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 80

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But I think that would be a really interesting next step to see if the trend in PPS scores adds information about the patient’s prognosis, which I expect it would.

Families 108

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And the point of that is that so many people, in my experience, and I’m sure it’s the same initial diagnosis of cancer, that’s the last thing that I want to talk about. And I said, sure. And I had that mortified look on my face of God.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Something which draws on some idea of what a human being is, which many of our citizens will disagree with, holding a different philosophical or religiously informed review about that. And a lot of my work has kind of been that vein. Alex 04:49 Amyloid.

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 115

PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Complications that you should be aware of include bacteremia, endocarditis, septic arthritis, or osteomyelitis. So how do you make the diagnosis? Clin Infect Dis 2011; 52:e18.

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IT Patients Diagnosis Clinic 59

PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis. In this episode, we’ll go over clinical presentation, diagnosis management, infection control, and post exposure protocols. Aside from coughing forever, there’s some important complications you need to be aware of.

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IT Vaccination Diagnosis Complication 52

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. Other people say, oh, no, this is just normal cognitive aging. There is a tension.

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Diagnosis IT Diagnose Physicals 141