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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

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COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard. I don’t like this anymore.” Alex: Great story.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

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I think the AI can allow for that complexity but still provide some guidance. So there’s some stuff out there like that, but also using AI to determine who at high risk and should get a palliative care consult. Matt: We have seen pilot level studies, interventions like that one to do clinical ethics consultation.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

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Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. Mike, you’re nodding your head no. Mike: Scale is a business concept. So, it’s a building problem.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

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Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And I try to provide as much objective data as I can on mortality risk and complication risk, but I also try to paint a clear picture of what life may look like afterwards, what the best case scenario is, the worst case scenario, and the most likely case scenario. And I think that we do need more of that information and you’re right.

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Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment

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Well, maybe they’re an engineer and understanding makes them feel rooted. So when we think about our learners, when we think about us as providers trying to assess coping and engage with coping, we always have to make sure that we’re thinking about multiple layers of context. There’s so many questions.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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