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Oral versus intravenous antibiotics for the initial treatment of acute pyelonephritis in adults: a systematic review [Acute and emergency care]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Acute pyelonephritis is a common diagnosis in the primary care and emergency settings. These include minimizing resource utilization and decreasing the risk of complications associated with IV antibiotics such as diarrhea. Two independent reviewers performed study selection, data extraction and quality assessment.

Primary Care

Primary Care Complication Diagnosis Electronics

10 Tips to Find the Best Diabetes Doctor for Type 2 Diabetes

Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Understand the Different Types of Diabetes Doctors Before searching for a diabetes doctor, it’s important to understand the types of medical professionals who treat Type 2 diabetes: Primary Care Physician (PCP): Often the first point of contact, they handle basic diabetes management.

Diabetes

Diabetes Board-Certified Management Internal Medicine

Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

Screening

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT

Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

Donors, government ministries, agencies and academic partners regularly cascade requests for data that multiply and complicate the simple interaction into a complex, and often redundant, set of data requirements for the same singular interaction. Digital uptake is more prevalent in high-volume and urban hospital networks.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Clinic Provider Patients

Pregnancy outcomes and complications in refugees and other newcomers at a Family Medicine practice in Philadelphia, PA [Women's health]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To help achieve this, we examined pregnancy outcomes among newcomers at a primary care practice in Philadelphia, PA. Setting/Dataset Data were extracted from the electronic health records at a Family Medicine practice in Philadelphia, PA. Descriptive statistics were conducted.

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DO Family Medicine Complication Families

Future Directions in Opioid Prescribing Patterns for Patients with Chronic Pain [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: 1) Demonstrate the feasibility of collecting data from prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) for population health reporting, 2) analyze trends in PDMP and electronic health record patient data relative to CDC guidelines and 3) identify use of patient-centered measures for pain management in primary care.

Patients

Patients Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics

Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

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.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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.

Families

Families IT Family Diagnosis

Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. This is Eric Widera. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Charlotta.

IT

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare

Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies. ” And we can by targeting these supportive care interventions. Or electronically, to fill out, right? This is terrific.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Corita 09:39 Yeah, so we used the electronic health record, I think, in support. And so we did a similar intervention but using electronic means. Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. No difference in their primary outcome. The primary care intervention did not work well.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients

PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. It’s complicated because right now there’s no mechanism other than cost avoidance. Tom: Do you think they relayed that info to the primary care [inaudible 00:34:14].

Consulting

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients

Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

But there’s no real system and systematic electronic way to identify need-based palliative care right now. We have palliative care who gets what, what goes, where. That gets really complicated as well. When you go to need, palliative care may be best for some needs. But we just haven’t scaled that yet.

Consulting

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated.

Patients

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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Oral versus intravenous antibiotics for the initial treatment of acute pyelonephritis in adults: a systematic review [Acute and emergency care]

10 Tips to Find the Best Diabetes Doctor for Type 2 Diabetes

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

Pregnancy outcomes and complications in refugees and other newcomers at a Family Medicine practice in Philadelphia, PA [Women's health]

Future Directions in Opioid Prescribing Patterns for Patients with Chronic Pain [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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