Rao Doctor

MAY 25, 2025

A CT-angiogram of the heart, commonly referred to as cardiac CT angiography, is a sophisticated imaging technique that utilizes computed tomography (CT) technology to visualize the arteries of the heart, called the coronary arteries and assess blood flow within the heart.

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Diagnose Healthcare Provider Healthcare Professional 130

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. It’s really important. Alex: Yeah.

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IT Hospital Patient-Centered Individual 124

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. And how am I going to manage their pain? And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia.

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Families Family IT Patients 106

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization. Talked about things like pragmatic ways to manage volume, anticipated volume, gave them projections of volume based on enrollment that was going on in usual care, and just really did a lot of palliative care. Eric: Yeah. Scott: That’s what it was. Eric: Okay.

Consulting 121

Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 121

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

We published a nice piece, I think it was in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. The specifics of how it does that depend on the population in which it’s implemented, and the outcome measure that is utilized. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. We began this here in Winnipeg.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98