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. What should we use to screen individuals? Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive? Who do we have with us today?

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Complications contribute to significant type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) morbidity. While preventable, many fail to receive timely treatment in primary care, leading the most vulnerable to accumulate complications. Results: We included 49,843 individuals in model 1.

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Complication Diabetes Primary Care Utilities 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again. I think once someone becomes kind of a high-utilizer, it’s a slippery slope. All of these are factors that are on the individual level.

Community 116

Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David: People with these illnesses suffer from persistent symptoms, poor quality of life, depression, anxiety, despite all the great things we do and all our colleagues in those specialties and in primary care and geriatrics. David: We used the VA specific care assessment needs score, which- Eric: Oh, the CAN score. David: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 123

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Eric 08:45 Why did you choose that as a primary outcome? But yeah, it’s complicated.

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. I often say that doulas are mirrors. Alex: Yeah.

Provider 119

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

One thing I’m wondering about though is that we have all these wonderful services, and as we educate teams, both hospital medicine teams, primary care teams, palliative care teams about these services, there’s still that push to get people, if we’re talking about inpatient, get people out. Do you know those?

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 133