Consulting Healthcare Professional Hospital Screening 
GeriPal
MAY 5, 2022
Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. Is that right?
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. and consulting for Papa Health. This is 24,000 encounters, over 15,000 patients, 11 hospitals, eight states.
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Plum Health
OCTOBER 11, 2024
During these regular appointments, doctors conduct various tests and screenings to catch issues early. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. Why is it called a clinic?
GeriPal
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. So we took this idea of, and it’s really an invitation from the national consensus project that every member of the team should be screening in all domains. And we recognize it, we screen for it.
GeriPal
JANUARY 25, 2024
You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year.
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.
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. Katie: Yeah.
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