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JUNE 24, 2025

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Management Patients Consulting Finance 52

Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

At its core, the technology utilizes sophisticated speech recognition to transcribe a conversation in the exam room or at the bedside. These systems also provide a consistent note structure, which can improve the overall readability and utility of patient records. Documentation guidelines for evaluation and management (E/M) services.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Telemedicine Clinic Electronics 52

FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The final guidance appears not to make any meaningful changes that are actually likely to support or incentivize its increased utilization, which is disappointing, although not unsurprising. The guidance also addresses FDAs obligation to provide considerations on third party compensation, information sharing, and conflicts of interest.

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Consulting Manufacturing Utilities Provider 52

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This nuclear medicine scan utilizes a radioactive tracer that is taken up by the gastric mucosa in Meckel’s diverticulum, thereby helping to identify its presence. Recognizing the characteristic features and understanding the differential diagnosis is crucial in managing patients with lower gastrointestinal bleeding.

Diagnosis 64

Diagnosis Complication Consulting Management 64

Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

After extending your graduation date, the year can be utilized as a research year that can help you enhance your application and build further connections. You have to be comfortable managing everything from lacerations, fractures, genital issues, etc in all age ranges and completely on your own.

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GP Medical Student Insurance General Practitioner 52

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Identifying the specific type of virus that are causing a child’s symptoms, like rhinovirus vs parainfluenza, is often unnecessary, especially in otherwise healthy children who are managed at home. Comprehensive respiratory viral panels (i.e., Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e., isolation for SARS-CoV-2).

Patients 52

Patients Illness Hospital Management 52

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Here at UW Health, we call it our Swallow Service.

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IT Hospital Patient-Centered Individual 124

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The lack of utility of laboratory testing in children with an unprovoked generalized seizure, or a simple febrile seizure is supported by several observational studies. Multiple evidence-based studies have shown that these tests do not significantly contribute to any changes in the management of these patients.

Patients 52

Patients Screening Illness Physicals 52

FDA Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2022

To clarify what preparations companies should take to more seamlessly manage a recall, on March 2, 2022, FDA published its Final Guidance Document on Initiation of Voluntary Recalls Under 21 CFR Part 7, Subpart C. FDA has model recall communication templates available here that firms can utilize.

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Electronics Manufacturing Provider IT 40

FDA Law Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

The analytic method should identify and manage sources of confounding and bias, including a strategy to account for differences in baseline factors and confounding variables, and missing and misclassified data. Sponsors should also propose additional analyses to evaluate the comparability between the trial arms for important covariates.

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Patient-Centered Clinic Patients Provider 49

FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

FDA will discuss the goals letter and field public comments, on September 28, 2021 (announcement here ), as well as a separate workshop on meetings management practices, which is to be held by July 30, 2024. Finally, FDA will hold a public workshop on meeting management.

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Patient-Centered Manufacturing Clinic Provider 52

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. So in this case consultations. Because now it requires another step to cancel the consult.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 121

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

The following is a summary of “Bridging Gaps in LDL-C Management: Utilization of Lipid-Lowering Therapies, Gender Disparities, and the Impact of Cardiology Visits on Secondary Prevention,” published in the June 2025 issue of American Journal Cardiology of by Sedrakyan et al. 0.58), higher mean LDL-C levels (76.9

Consulting 52

Consulting Utilities Relationship Management 52

PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies. Additionally, hydralazine is another agent that was previously utilized in pediatric hypertensive emergencies. Front Pediatr. 2022;10:880678. Published 2022 Apr 15.

Hypertension 75

Hypertension Management Physicals Lab Testing 75

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Kate: I think the main one for me being asked on the fly is that one of the nudged specialist palliative care consultation, which we know has limitations. I’m just stunned even writing that!

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound. And so it really got me interested in how we improve symptom management. Not just pain, but symptom management, then for people that are in a nursing home and that.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. Now, what should we do for evaluation and next steps in management?

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Consulting Individual Families Family 59

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again. I think once someone becomes kind of a high-utilizer, it’s a slippery slope. Same thing with kind of medication management. Carmen: Yeah.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. It was around helping communication, and really focused on our nursing manual, and particularly around these guidelines for assessing and managing symptoms. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. David: Yeah. Eric: Okay.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In recent years, pressures to decrease hospital length of stay and increase throughput, the rate at which patients are moved in and out of the system has contributed to a culture in many acute care environments where physical therapy functions primarily as a consultation service for discharge planning. Ann: My palliative care doc is great.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. And how am I going to manage their pain? And then part of our role as folks in palliative care who as Katie mentioned, really try to help folks manage distress around serious illness. Two great videos on buprenorphine initiation. Transcript.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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. It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. So that’s great. No, no, no.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. I gotta get some sleep.

Illness 101

Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

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. We didn’t make them communicate it, but we focused them on it, which makes them more likely to then utilize that information.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 117

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

If you own and operate a nursing home and you’re taking people in, and you’re admitting new residents, what’s their accountability for how they manage compensation and quality delivery? I’m the project manager, so my job’s to zoom in. What are they accountable for? Eric: Great.

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? It just depends.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. It’s not just about physical symptom management. Can someone describe for me what a stepped model is?

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? Does watching a video impact utilization to that degree?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the thought of a huge number of our patients who had really come to rely on being able to do their visits from home or from a place that was close to home and getting medications that they’ve really come to rely on for symptom management was just really kind of terrifying for us and for them. It may have come to a care manager.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73