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. That can be incredibly informative. We’re doing this also through the inpatient portal because we were trying to get as much information in there as possible.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

I know this is like, we’re talking about math and so that makes it all a little complicated, but think about it this way. I really am not buying that it’s too complicated to do A over B, equal C over D, if you know three of the four variables. Part of my proposal is, again, that we can actually use very similar information.

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IT Patients Individual Relationship 139

GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

After coming out of residency and taking care of lots of complicated older adults as of now, a brand new physician attending, I really needed that team to help me out. ” And the environment that we worked in, in geriatrics, was more of this sharing information and different groups or calling. And that model just made sense.

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 100

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? 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? Eric: Because you need saliva to swallow, right? Nicole: Yes. Raele: Very helpful if you do, yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Hospital Individual 124

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

-@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. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith. Is that your experience?

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 74

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

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. 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. Frequently Asked Questions What is the definition of a clinic?

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

This information can help pinpoint possible causes of illness and guide further investigations. Using these methods can reduce temperature discomfort and minimize complications. A comprehensive history includes: A body temperature exceeding 100.4°F F (38°C) is generally regarded as indicative of illness. And I do this regularly.

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Diagnosis Management Illness Diagnose 130

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

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. Infections or allergic reactions can block your airway and lead to life-threatening complications.

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

So in my practice, I typically recommend multi fraction or higher dose regimens for patients who have extra osseous extension or complicated bone Metastases, which, you know, most of the data surrounding equivalency of pain relief is in this sort of uncomplicated bone metastasis population.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

The healthcare system must provide care in a just way so that those who need care have access to it. This is relatively easy for straightforward medical decisions like taking an antibiotic for an infection, but becomes complicated during more complex situations.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them. Is that your feeling, too? David 12:34 Yeah.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 99

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

And the big things that we think about as far as complications, so there, obviously the thing that comes to everybody’s mind is like fractures. Like there’s nothing we can do or do you feel like and we can talk about if so there are things that we can do to prevent falls and prevent the complications of those falls.

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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? This is a complicated case.

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IT Illness Family Families 132

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?

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And several times now, I read the notes and it’s just that someone has copied the contact information for someone into that note, but no one has actually contacted them or confirmed that they would want that person present. Emily: Looks like informed decision making around family involvement. Eric: Yeah, I love that too.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 98

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. But they don’t really have a lot of condition-specific or procedure-specific information at all.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 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 mean, we work at a different part of the health system a lot of times, although we have acute care therapists who do the same thing, but the gap in information flow is similar.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 115

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. And what we are seeing in our research is that, we’re working on GPT four, is volunteering information that we didn’t ask for. The information there and you limit it in that way.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And it’s with this information from the geriatric assessment that we can really create interventions, and so that’s something that Alex and I strongly believe that we should move forward with. We have the chemo talks tool posted, so people can go there and click and immediately get the information about this.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JANUARY 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. It used to be a much more complicated model. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. Eric: How about you, David? David: Right. David: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

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. And so I was driven by the fact that I needed more information, and so it sort of became my clinical focus as well as I dabble in the research. They are complicated.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. Brian: I mean, bottom line in clinical research or psychedelic medicines, we don’t have a lot of information on safety anyway, and we definitely don’t have it in older adults. So, creating a- Alex: Control condition. Eric: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

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. How do you think about non pharmacological approaches, or maybe even in the people who just have a shorter, maybe less complicated anxiety, but it’s still impacting their sleep?

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As much information and control I can give, I’m going to give because I think that this coping is helping them stay rooted. There are other people who say, in this time of uncertainty for these next few hours, I think I just need to avoid the worst case scenarios and just wait for the information to come back. Is this adaptive?

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To me, that feels hard because I guess my inclination is that I want communication to be fixable, and there’s so much medical information and there’s a lot of reasons for families to feel like they’re struggling to understand. Abby: I’m going to use Alex’s words from before, that’s really complicated.

Family 144

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 144

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

I appreciate that information. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right? You’re trying to include information from symptoms in a population, also in a geriatric population that may have multiple reasons going on. Lots of information in there. Eric: Did that information change your practice at all?

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

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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IT Family Families Illness 83

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Tell us more about what you mean,” because they give us beautiful information from that. Between those two things, usually you get all the information you need.

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IT Family Families Physicals 137

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. It is the CME activity providers responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Although, certainly when you start facing complications of serious illness, it is increasingly important to engage as individuals and conversations about goals, values, and preferences. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Rebecca: I think I’ll also add too.

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Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 73

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. On bias and trauma as you.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? I think the two spaces it comes out of, one is informed consent, which is this idea that people need to have an understanding of their disease and treatment. Gretchen: Absolutely.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Tamra: It’s incredibly complicated because to date, there’s not really a validated tool that’s mandated to be used across all settings. We need that information. This information is so vital. Hospitals should routinely collect functional information in the same way. Do you know those?

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? The emergency physician knows it’s not new information.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. We didn’t make them do anything with that information, just document it. Because it’s complicated and we don’t want to over complicate prayer listeners. Eric 23:03 If you want.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 117