GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

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. This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. What is sludge?

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. We have recently, for our larger events, and even not as large events, we have people send us their stories.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. So the palliative performance scale, or PPS, is essentially a tool to help clinicians with prognostication for seriously ill or palliative care populations.

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