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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IT Patient-Centered Hospital Individual 124

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Just found that this was a really easy, low budget way of informing people about the medication, about the potential harms, and they were a captive audience in the hospital. Maybe even had come in with a complication. Here’s some information about deprescribing, here’s some information about these medicines.

Specialization 119

Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

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. So that’s one, this patient-centered geriatric assessment and management approach. I spent so much time trying to talk to others to find out this information.

Hospital 100

Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 100

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

But two, a very close relationship with potentially the palliative care physician or the individual who’s Sort of managing their pain, because the simulation itself can be 20 to 30 minutes of lying in that specific treatment position. So we need to have a discussion upfront about how we’re managing the patient’s pain.

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. This information can help pinpoint possible causes of illness and guide further investigations. What are the Management and Treatment Options in a case of fever? Consulting your doctor ensures proper treatment.

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Diagnosis Management Illness Diagnose 130

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. Regular check-ups ensure early detection of health issues.

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. So we got a lot to cover.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

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. I appreciate that information. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right?

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

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. However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management.

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ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

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.

Medical 98

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

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.

Illness 129

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.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

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.

IT 132

IT Illness Families Family 132

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.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

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?

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

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

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 114

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.

IT 99

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.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

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.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Like, how do we help ourselves maintain psychological integrity in the face of the stressors that we have to manage? That’s how I managed without screaming at my 4 year old who was coping. As much information and control I can give, I’m going to give because I think that this coping is helping them stay rooted.

Illness 125

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so for pt, we’re generally focused on assistance with transfers, providing assistive devices to help people maintain independence with ambulation, doing stairs, leaving their homes, getting into the community, but really focusing on symptom management. We need that information. This information is so vital.

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. I don’t want to misspeak because now I forget.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Between those two things, usually you get all the information you need.

IT 137

IT Families Family Physicals 137

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

JUNE 13, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

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.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

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

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

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.

IT 128

IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

In particular, she reminds us that when we think about the most challenging of our patient encounters, they almost always involve a complex psychosocial dynamic, and this has received far less attention than communication and symptom management issues. . I don’t even remember pain management teaching. AlexSmithMD .

Illness 109

Illness IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

As a provider, as somebody who has to constantly look whether or not somebody’s boosted and when is the next boost, our EHRs are disjointed, fragmented, doesn’t give us the information we need. Govind Persad and Emily Largent appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Vaccination Individual IT Healthcare 87

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. But you know, we managed to work it through and people got used to it and throughout the duration of the trial.

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And it was amazing just seeing the differences in how end-of-life care is managed at those three institutions, which were all a subway right away from each other. And so I think that actually that’s where I think… One of the respondents that I talked to was in risk management. I guess the VA is federal though. Liz: Right.

Hospital 125

Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. That’s just one hypothesis.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

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.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

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. If yes, was it more, less, or the right amount of pain management? Where do we go with all of this information?

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Family Families IT Patients 106