GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Do you screen for lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and if so, how? If I was going to ask one question about this just as a screen, is there a way to ask this question that is not both stigmatizing, but people also understand and it gets around some of these issues. Eric 08:05 Yeah. Eric 08:19 Sure thing, if I’m honest.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. Does a good history matter anymore? Whats the role of assessing function? Great to be back.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

During these regular appointments, doctors conduct various tests and screenings to catch issues early. If you have a chronic condition like asthma, diabetes, or arthritis, unexpected complications or flare-ups can occur at any time. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! Why is it called a clinic?

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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. Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? Why would that be?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

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.). Chrissy: Well, right.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Think of the 10 years it takes to benefit from colon or breast cancer screening, which is designed to detect slow growing cancers. This tool provides a clinical recommendation for starting/stopping medications and cancer screening based on the prognosis of the patient in front of you. See screenshot below.

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Clinic IT Patients Medical 67

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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. We know that a lot of times with cancer screening, you don’t actually get benefits right away and it can cause potential harms right away.

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