Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

PURPOSE Although studies have shown that more temporally regular (TR) primary care visits are associated with improved patient outcomes, none have examined what clinic staff can do to encourage greater TR visits. RESULTS Themes emerged regarding best ways to promote regular follow-up of patients with chronic conditions.

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Primary Care Patients Primary Care Physician Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Thus, we explored how Behavioral Health Consultants (BHCs) defined culture and how it shaped screening, assessment, and treatment of behavioral health conditions in racially and ethnically marginalized patients in IPC settings.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Behavioral Health Services Patient-Centered Illness 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Having more consultation time and establishing a relationship of trust with people helped to address their unmet social needs. Creating community partnerships may help to overcome the limited capacity of case managers in assisting patients in their personal or administrative procedures, e.g. employment, immigration, or housing.

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Integrated Care Primary Care Management Healthcare 130

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! As a result, doctors often end up referring the patient somewhere else if they do not immediately know the answer.

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Patients Primary Care Appointment Diagnose 52

Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Direct primary care (DPC) is a membership-based healthcare model that offers patients unlimited access to a primary care physician for a fixed monthly fee. Key features of DPC include: Unlimited access to a primary care physician: Patients can see their doctor as often as needed, without worrying about insurance limitations.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Preventive Care Preventative Care Primary Care Physician 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Two "peripheral" committees, consulted at specific phases of the initiative, were set up to ensure discussion of the strategic positioning of the RRSPUM both within and outside our faculty. The first included DFMEM clinicians, researchers, a patient partner, and the second included representatives of the Quebec PC research landscape.

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Primary Care Family Medicine DO Consulting 130

Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

Plum Health DPC has a primary care solution designed just for you: Embrace the Benefits of Direct Primary Care Direct Primary Care is a membership-based healthcare model that emphasizes a direct relationship between patient and doctor. Always consult with a healthcare professional for any medical condition or health concern.

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Primary Care Insurance Medical Advice Healthcare 52

Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 21, 2025

Consult a doctor, sleep specialist, or therapist for the right diagnosis and treatment. Sleep apnea patients can benefit from continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines for optimal breathing. If these fail, consulting specialists and attempting talk therapy can help.

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Consulting Individual Physicals Chronic Disease 52

Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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Patient-Centered Telemedicine Clinic Electronics 52

Family Physicians of Greeley

MAY 17, 2023

If you struggle with sleep difficulties, consider implementing relaxation techniques or consulting with a healthcare professional. Cultivate Supportive Relationships: Building and maintaining healthy relationships is essential for our mental well-being. By doing so, you can lead a happier, more fulfilling life.

Mental Health 40

Mental Health Physicals Healthcare Professional Relationship 40

FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Whether a surrogate or intermediate clinical endpoint (ICE), the endpoint to support accelerated approval is one that can be assessed more rapidly than the ultimate clinical benefit; this is what enables earlier patient access than would be possible while generating the evidence to support a traditional approval, which is typically infeasible.

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Clinic Relationship Provider IT 64

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. And the person with dementia, the patient, said yes.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 102

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? How high is too high?

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 74

FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

From new initiatives to facilitate faster reviews for new indications under the Split Real Time Application Review (STAR) pilot program, to bringing new meetings under PDUFA goals, to continued support for rare diseases and incorporation of the patient voice, the goals letter revealed a good number of welcome announcements.

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Patient-Centered Manufacturing Clinic Provider 52

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. Anish 01:02 Well, I speak, you know, from a physician lens of some of the patients that I get referred, and by the time there’s. This is not a good option.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 103

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

But when you talk to people about relationships, the fact that they’re trying to communicate at church or any kind of house of worship, or go out to meetings, the fact that people stop going out to events, that they restrict what they’re doing. But on the personal level, it’s an engagement issue as well. It’s amazing.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

They candidly discuss the unique challenges and opportunities health care organizations face in meeting patient expectations. Today we are talking about the patient care experience specifically here at Kaiser Permanente, but also in general. For me specifically, it’s how do we make a patient feel. AM: Thank you so much.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 52

Doctor Rachel

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Here are the tools I use in my practice to support my patients with significant sadness or depression. leave the destructive relationship, don’t see unhelpful friends, find a new job, stop the addiction, get out of the house, get off of social media (it increases depression). This should always be done in consultation with your doctor.

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Consulting Relationship IT Medical 130

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. We’re doing a lot of interactive relationship building. Beth, welcome to GeriPal. Beth: Thank you. Greg, welcome to GeriPal.

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Board-Certified IT Primary Care Referral 111

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. Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. and consulting for Papa Health.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 122

StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Recently, due to the stress that several of my dearest friends have been experiencing in caring for their elderly parents, I am even more appreciative and respectful of my privilege in caring for elderly patients who have attentive and loving adult children who accompany them to our ER. Later, she found me. Can you believe that family?

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ER Family Families Transportation 100

Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

Medical societies and hospitals are weighing in on periprocedural concerns in patients taking GLP-1s who need procedures or surgeries. That’s according to two internists who work closely with hospitalized patients who take GLP-1s. These medications are truly life-changing for many patients.”

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Hospital Management Diabetes Patients 66

Dr. Michael Bazel

JUNE 16, 2025

With additional offices in Panorama City and Bell, his practice offers comprehensive hormone testing and treatment in Valley Village and beyond to help patients regain balance and well-being. The truth is that stress and hormone imbalances often work together, and resolving your symptoms requires understanding the relationship between them.

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IT Physicals Management Diagnosis 130

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. But watch out! Alex 01:06 Yeah, go in person.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

They assessed 19,108 patients with coronary artery disease from 7 hospitals in Massachusetts between January 2019 and March 2024. Categorical relationships were examined using chi-square tests, and multivariable logistic regression accounted for confounders. Females had lower odds of achieving LDL-C goals (OR 0.53, 95%CI 0.49–0.58),

Consulting 52

Consulting Utilities Relationship Management 52

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority. They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs.

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We address: Why is caring for patients with this overlap so hard? Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Who follows the patient once the cancer goes into remission? I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults.

Patients 74

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

During the podcast, we reference a newly released second-edition book that our guests published titled “ Navigating Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope.” Why did you all decide to write an updated book on navigating communication with serious ill patients? Gordon 02:02 I do.

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IT Illness Families Family 133

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? Big randomized control study that came out.

Patient-Centered 123

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary You know when you walk out of a patient’s room and have that sense, “This isn’t going to go well.” The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Is the patient in your descriptor?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 110

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

” And Bing responded, I should ask about how AI can help identify patients who need palliative care and reduce hospitalizations, what are the benefits and challenges of using AI in decision-making, communication, palliative care, and how could AI support the quality of life and dignity of patients for those who are receiving palliative care?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. So that was great.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And it not only leads to better outcomes for patients, it leads to our better sustainability. In many settings, physicians have the ultimate legal and professional responsibility for overseeing patient care, which shapes physicians physician vision and expectations for collaboration, or lack thereof, of the core palliative care professions.

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Screening IT Families Family 121

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California. She also discusses the importance of the patient-provider relationship and shared-decision making, which helps ensure that a full range of services are being offered to patients.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. She was a heart failure patient. Because that really is what this is about. What’s in a story?

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 116

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Eric 03:25 So we have a lot to talk about, but I’m wondering if we can kind of take a big step back and just talk about the patient population that’s in nursing homes. Connie 06:18 So, I’ve been a clinician working in the nursing home since back in the 80s, and I saw a lot of patients that really needed palliative care.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78