GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. We’ll have a link to that article, but kind of stimulated this podcast where we’re going to talk a little bit about advanced directives, durable power of attorney for healthcare, surrogate decision-making and the like.

Family 112

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I’m worried about all of us as healthcare workers, but particularly… And when I say particularly those in the hospital, because they are just tired. If they had a healthcare agent, then this would be better, right? And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98