GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. If you could wave a magic wand to change one thing: sleep, blood pressure control, eradicate diabetes, get everybody exercising, what do you think would have the most bang for the buck in terms of dementia reduction? Kristine: Can I say age?

Physicals 86

Physicals IT Hypertension Education 86

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Whether it's a urinary tract infection or a severe ear infection, urgent care clinics can quickly diagnose and treat infections.

Clinic 52

Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. due to chemotherapy, diabetes, or autoimmune disease)? The provider examines your throat, may perform tests like a strep test, and diagnoses the cause. chemotherapy or steroids). Do you have a weak immune system (e.g.,

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? And that I see as something very positive, because I think none of us like to spend hours documenting.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. Eric 13:28 Thank you. What is GDMT?

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We discuss with her how we should work-up and manage “urinary tract infections” (I’ve added air quotes to “UTI” in honor of Tom Finucane’s JAGS article titled “Urinary Tract Infection”—Requiem for a Heavyweight in which he advocated to put air quotes around the term UTI due to the ambiguity of the diagnosis.). I appreciate that information.

Management 122

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. And we’ve been diagnosing it at Penn. Sharon: Yeah, they have to understand the risks.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so there’s one study that used Medicare beneficiary data, and when they look at diagnoses for transgender men and women compared to cisgender men and women, we see around one in five have a diagnosis of dementia in the medical record for the transgender community compared to around, like, 1 in 7, 1 in 8 versus gender people.

Individual 82

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But we know from previous studies that a lot of older adults actually want this information, but might not feel comfortable bringing it up. So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95