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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

By diagnosis? And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one. And I practiced both on the palliative care consult team and in the ICU.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

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Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. This is Eric Widera. Eric: Yeah. Like who is at high risk or low risk?

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

And so there’s one study that used Medicare beneficiary data, and when they look at diagnoses for transgender men and women compared to cisgender men and women, we see around one in five have a diagnosis of dementia in the medical record for the transgender community compared to around, like, 1 in 7, 1 in 8 versus gender people.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah. We put a lot on the surgeon here. Yep, for geriatrics?

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

For the foreseeable future, it’s going to be right 90%, 95%, 85%, so the safety system, of course, will be, the AI says something, makes a recommendation or gives you a draft diagnosis or drafts your note, and then, the failsafe is, the doctor reads it over. AI has a long and not storied history in healthcare. This is GPT-4.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? Tell me what would you… Juliet: Fully Integrated electronic medical records system that made this very easy for clinicians to do. Juliet: Sure. Get the hospice referral.

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