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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Jennifer: I think it’s such a complicated question. JAMA study just came out an electronic symptom monitoring for people with metastatic cancer showed improvement in their symptoms and quality of life. Can this just be done by a electronic symptom monitoring program? ” Right? Do we need specialty palliative care?

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. These were EHR documents in the patient’s chart built within the Atrium Health’s electronic health record, where they document other things. So that’s by far the best studied. Kate 16:25 Yeah, right.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart.