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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

So, the consult will come in and then we’ll do what we call a clinical bedside evaluation, where we’ll go and see the patient at the bedside. Eric: I also wonder, is it just the utilization review standpoint? So, if it’s a hospitalized patient, usually the referral will come through to the SLP service.

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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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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

So for those of you listening via YouTube, here’s the live version for those of you who are listening on the podcast, you’re going to get my prerecorded version with lots of loops and I’m doing consultation with my new music teacher who’s a music producer in LA. Alex: So we’ll see what these come out like.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? Well, I’d agree, John, for palliative care ideally starts around the time of diagnosis. That’s where we have the largest evidence base for palliative care in the outpatient setting, in the setting of serious illness around the time of diagnosis.

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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

GeriPal

Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. There’s a Boguts case, a patient with anorexia who utilized medical aid and dying. But some of the nuance I would want to point out is that, like Brent mentioned, first of all, this is not a diagnosis. Like 80 to 90% of patients we see have a psychiatric diagnosis.

Illness 101
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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. Can someone describe for me what a stepped model is?

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

GeriPal

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. 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?

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