PEMBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Other complications include obstruction due to intussusception or volvulus, leading to bowel ischemia and shock. This nuclear medicine scan utilizes a radioactive tracer that is taken up by the gastric mucosa in Meckel’s diverticulum, thereby helping to identify its presence. The bleeding is usually painless. ” An et.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

From managing rising costs and staffing shortages to navigating complex payer requirements and administrative burdens, the results reveal a profession under pressure from multiple fronts. The results also shed light on emerging concerns that could further complicate operations in 2025, including economic uncertainty and regulatory shifts.

Chronic Disease Management 52

Chronic Disease Management Management Chronic Disease Patients 52

CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

Couple this with the in-office technologies of CEREC&reg; Primescan and CBCT allowed us to gain control of the technical processes necessary to manage and produce the surgical and restorative phases of treatment at one location.</span></p> We reviewed the 3D images together and discussed the risks associated with his case.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Patients Manufacturing Clinic 52

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 Hospital Patient-Centered Individual 125

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.

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

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. delta +1.4 [95%CI

Patients 130

Patients Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Incorporating Frailty in RSV Management The findings demonstrate that frailty represents “a significant factor influencing adverse outcomes in older adults hospitalized with RSV infection ,” Dr. Andrew and colleagues wrote. “The

Illness 52

Illness Hospital Patients Management 52

PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies. Additionally, hydralazine is another agent that was previously utilized in pediatric hypertensive emergencies. Front Pediatr. 2022;10:880678. Published 2022 Apr 15.

Hypertension 75

Hypertension Management Physicals Lab Testing 75

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. Same thing with kind of medication management. Carmen: Yeah.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It used to be a much more complicated model. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. It was around helping communication, and really focused on our nursing manual, and particularly around these guidelines for assessing and managing symptoms. David: Right. David: Yeah. Eric: Okay.

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. It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here.

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. And then with the nurse-led telephonic case management, that was a centralized model at NYU, and we got philanthropic support to hire the nurses. It’s complicated because right now there’s no mechanism other than cost avoidance.

Consulting 116

Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

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. Ann: Yeah, I’ll let Tamra speak if you want. Do you know those?

Patient-Centered 133

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 133

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia.

Families 107

Families Family IT Patients 107

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

We didn’t make them communicate it, but we focused them on it, which makes them more likely to then utilize that information. But you know, we managed to work it through and people got used to it and throughout the duration of the trial. Because it’s complicated and we don’t want to over complicate prayer listeners.

Patient-Centered 118

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 118

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. So it’s a lot of palliation. I gotta get some sleep.

Illness 102

Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. We published a nice piece, I think it was in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. The specifics of how it does that depend on the population in which it’s implemented, and the outcome measure that is utilized. Harvey: Complicated.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I thought that was an interesting take on doing this, because a mother-daughter relationship can be complicated, can be wonderful, and it’s hard to navigate when you lose your mother. We utilize the generous donations from our foundation to support the end-of-life doula program. What was the value proposition?

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. We see how hard it is. Rachelle: Yeah.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98