GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

IT 121

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs. It creates a continuous health history that benefits both you and your provider. They're designed to provide quick, efficient medical attention for conditions that require timely care but aren't life-threatening.

Clinic 52

Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

One of the primary tools used in diagnosing fever is the thermometer, an instrument that measures body temperature. Fever can present alongside other symptoms, such as chills and fatigue, which may help in diagnosing the underlying cause. Using these methods can reduce temperature discomfort and minimize complications.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Management Illness Diagnose 130

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming. Is this our role?

Family 102

Family IT Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And so the family is there in much more of an advisory role rather than providing say, cognitive scaffolding that they might provide in supported decision making. This is not a process where they can see into the future around what complications or challenges may arise, but this is the world that we live in and we can anticipate that.

Family 98

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

For example, we once thought that the lower urinary tract was sterile, but we now know it has its own microbiome, which may even provide protection against infections. Eric: And then as we talk about Venn diagrams, probably the most common reflexive thing that providers do when they hear about lower urinary tract symptoms is they check a UA.

Management 123

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 123

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. I think the AI can allow for that complexity but still provide some guidance. And I think that’s where it gets really interesting from the standpoint of ethics. Alex: Mm-hmm. Charlotta: Yeah.

IT 100

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. Jane: Right.

Provider 119

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. Kate: You just embed it into routine care and workflows, and you really aim for a broader population,, outcomes that are routinely collected care that can be provided in the course of routine care, and not trying to manipulate and control all of the factors.

Consulting 100

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 100

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And the role of the palliative care provider is to figure out, knowing that different things affect different people, is what causes somebody in that particular instance to feel their dignity is being undermined. Eric: Sorry, I was on mute.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I think that there are some really great for-profit hospices out there that are actually able to provide more services and more open access for patients. Although I saw that hospice was providing a lot of really great quality care for these patients, I also saw a lot of problems. And then at the regional level-. Eric: A minute.

Family 107

Family Families IT Patients 107

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

So GFR was adjusted based on race, which it probably did lead to African-American patients being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease later in their disease trajectory, as compared to others. Eric: And it’s even more complicated, right? I probably should have said GFR. Eric: Yes. I just choose GFR.

IT 92

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 92

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses. So we’re in the same cancer group.

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. So cachexia, I would put it involuntary weight loss is the number one way to diagnose it.

Illness 134

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. I recently had this patient in clinic who, for complicated reasons that I won’t go into, our outpatient clinic had to put limits on his frequency of visits with me. I think that’s a really insightful point is always thinking about organic causes. And he was livid.

Patients 110

Patients IT Family Families 110

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. Have been now a care provider for people with HIV for over 40 years. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed.

Primary Care 96

Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 96

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. The intervention itself is very straightforward. Before the primary care visit.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Family 108

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 108

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? And then I subsequently entail, yeah, it was interesting. Sharon 15:21 Right.

Illness 131

Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. They’re often the ones who are most directly in touch with a grieving family or may have their own concerns about the care that’s being provided and the worth or value of what they’re showing up and doing every day. Insurance companies. Icus for beds.

IT 115

IT Family Families Patient-Centered 115

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. And the treatments are different than what hospice might provide in the home setting. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. I trained at Hopkins. Tacara: Exactly.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115