Consulting Healthcare Professional Hospital Referral 
GeriPal
MARCH 14, 2024
And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults? Nicole: Yeah, I think definitely delirium, but there are also a lot of medical conditions that can be specific to hospitalizations.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Sonali: This seven versus 14 days for male UTI combines really well with the gram negative bacteriemia paper because sometimes we are faced with patients in the hospital which are disposition issue. So transmission of other drug resistant organisms and C difficile to other patients in the hospital reduces if you control.
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GeriPal
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Alex: We’re delighted to also welcome Greg Pawlson, who’s Senior Faculty at Lodestar Consulting & Executive Coaching and former President of the American Geriatric Society. When somebody is not able to function, they need deep therapy, and probably maybe even hospitalization. I have hired coaches based on referrals.
GeriPal
JUNE 12, 2025
I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. Eric 07:04 You actually created things like a curriculum for hospital medicine fellows in radiation oncology. And sort of a few years ago, we would sometimes see referrals a bit later than we would have liked. There really was very little. So I think education is key.
GeriPal
JUNE 9, 2022
Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? I do tend to focus in the hospital setting.
GeriPal
JANUARY 30, 2025
In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. We would make referrals to psycho oncology.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. I was like, “I have all these things I’m doing in the hospital to try to make people better and then I might be sending them right back to a big hazardous environment.” Eric: Oh, no.
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