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. But that combination is actually quite common, and it’s quite challenging to diagnose and manage, at least in the traditional sense. That can be incredibly informative.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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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

JUNE 16, 2022

There are a lot of old myths out there about managing urinary tract symptoms and UTI’s in older adults. Then we chat with Scott Bauer, internist and researcher at UCSF, about how to assess and manage lower urinary tract symptoms in men. But really those urinary tract signs and symptoms should be driving your diagnosis.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

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. It's the first point of contact for all your medical needs, from routine check-ups to managing chronic conditions. Regular check-ups ensure early detection of health issues.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management. A doctor can help identify triggers, suggest lifestyle changes, and recommend medications to manage symptoms. Infections or allergic reactions can block your airway and lead to life-threatening complications.

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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. I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

JULY 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 folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. We have both inpatient and outpatient at IU.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

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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Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. Joel: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

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? The information there and you limit it in that way. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please respond.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? Is the sort of task to manage.

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Illness IT Family Families 132

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. Relationships are usually more complicated. Anyways, the current study is looking at the impact of music on well being after a new dementia diagnosis. And we’re. I forgot about.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? David 12:31 Yeah, if you believe the results of an informal. They want to be able to manage their own symptoms.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. They supported patients, they gave them a holding environment, they did symptom management, yada, yada, yada, like all the things we know palliative care clinicians do.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. The whole idea of holding hope seems also so much more complicated for younger people because the hopes that they had, the normal hopes are not likely to be realized. What are the patients that we remember? Abby: Yeah.

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Family Families IT Illness 83

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications?

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. We can talk about the informal and the formal differences in expansion later.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia. Nurse case management, social worker case management, medications, medical equipment, a home health aid, all that stuff goes away.

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Family Families IT Patients 106

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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Managing anger is hard, it’s really hard. And yet we don’t ever talk about how to manage it. Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. I wish they were just a diagnosis. And I’m wondering, why did this bubble to the top of topics to discuss today?

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Patients IT Family Families 109

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.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

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. This is a pragmatic trial.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

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 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Family 98

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? And then another, which was released under the Bush administration by a council with a different sort of philosophical Benton worldview which still managed to come to the same conclusion in support of a brain based definition, death. Alex 04:49 Amyloid.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 113

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

We will review the clinical presentation, diagnostic strategies, management protocols, infection control practices, and vaccination updates. This episode also covers what healthcare providers need to know about post-exposure prophylaxis, respiratory precautions, and managing occupational exposures. link] UpToDate Yeh S et al.

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