PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. This measures both acid and non acid reflux events. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management Patient-Centered Diagnose 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. That gave rise to the GEMSSTAR, which is grants for early medical and surgical specialists in aging research that’s supported by NIA.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

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. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults? Eric 14:10 Yeah.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. That gave rise to the GEMSSTAR, which is grants for early medical and surgical specialists in aging research that’s supported by NIA.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Jennifer 27:11 Yes.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It could be in housing, it could be a standalone senior center, home delivered meals, nutrition counseling and nutrition education done by registered dieticians. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. To Susan’s point.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

If you have two or more febrile seizures, you have a 50% chance of subsequent events. And so briefly, let’s talk about that neurology referral and follow up. And then there’s genetic epilepsy plus febrile seizures, which you are not going to diagnose in the ED. I will tell parents it’s a one in three chance.

Illness 59

Illness Vaccination Family Families 59