GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Well, so I guess it depends on what you say screening. That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes.

Primary Care 95

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So like as an example, in New York State, if someone has no healthcare proxy that they’ve designated, there is a legal structure by which we can assign a surrogate, whereas other states don’t have that same structure. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant? There’s really no added extra resource or time that the coordinators really need to put to doing the screening, themselves.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

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.

Clinic 67

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.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

So I actually got started in cancer screening also, thanks to some mutual colleagues. Like for me, my NF1, is it a good idea to get screened for cancer or not? But heart failure and polyuria from poorly controlled diabetes, any sort of volume overload state when someone is collecting fluid in their legs, it stays there all day.

Management 122

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Go on, Anna.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? question used to screen for domestic violence. We do talk about healthcare policy. So some people said we had very strong opinions about, as clinicians, we should absolutely address these incidents and screen for them.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community Screening IT 116

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Eric 18:59 What is the recommendation currently for HIV screening in older adults or in non older adults? Or is the aging process and development of serious illness so similar to people who are not living with HIV that we can sort of move on and consider it, you know, sort of like diabetes, for example. Who wants to go first?

Primary Care 94

Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

But there’s some level of glycosylated hemoglobin which very neatly correlates with abnormal glucose tolerance, which is diabetes, or is amyloid like mitotic figures spreading beyond the basement membrane? Diabetes, you see the same thing. You have pre-diabetes now. Lon: No, that’s a straight out screen.

IT 115

IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 115

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

But this was a family practice study where they randomized 500 healthcare providers to wear surgical masks in routine interactions, 500 to not wear masks, no difference in like anyone getting colds or anything. They once said every child, not every child but many children got diabetes from COVID. Pediatricians don’t tell me that.

Vaccination 100

Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100