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Vascular Ultrasound: What Is It and How Does It Work?

Vascular Physician

Benefits of Vascular Ultrasound Undergoing a vascular ultrasound can provide a variety of benefits to individuals who have been diagnosed with a vascular condition or who are interested in using it as a screening tool. Some of these benefits include: Detecting blood clots in the deep veins of the body, such as the legs, (DVT).

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What every physician should know about care experience (and why it matters)

Permanente Medicine

So it’s not uncommon that many patients start to ask certain questions and I’m like, did you happen to consult with Dr. Google before coming to see me? When you put in that referral, how do we make sure that that patient walks out with the specialty appointment versus phone tag. They’ll also pen the rheumatology referral.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And so we do have consultants who come in the building.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

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.

Illness 137
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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

But that was a small pot of money and we went to first call a handy person, it was going to be $500 for a consultation, let alone the installation, and we were like, “This is absolutely cost-prohibitive. In addition to the grab bars, we have also helped train the EMS professionals in different lenses about screening.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. But what we wanted to do was to control for regional … what’s that called?

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? Get the hospice referral. So I’m just going to share on my screen. Rachelle: One of the things, they are definitely ordered steps, right? So you need to do them in order. We want to get the DNR, right?

Illness 98