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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

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.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. ” And I too was just drawn to … from a clinical perspective, from a research perspective, just this revolving door through the emergency room.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

GeriPal

Butstay with us heremight AI help to address some of the major issues present in surrogate decision making? Alex 01:29 And we’re delighted to welcome Teva Brender, who’s a third year resident in internal medicine at UCSF. We do consults all the time on these where different people will say, no, it makes sense to try.