Diagnose Illness Physicals Referral 
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. uh, ill defined epigastric or chest pain, and it’s often worse by eating or lying down after meals.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 13, 2022
And I think that there is room for shortening the duration if your patient is non-immunocompromised and not severely ill. So I think there are caveats and if you have a non immunocompromised, not severely ill patient that has again defervesced, then there is room for reducing the duration to three days for community acquired pneumonia.
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GeriPal
MARCH 14, 2024
So, if it’s a hospitalized patient, usually the referral will come through to the SLP service. You see something on a bedside swallow, or on a FEES, you’re diagnosing what you think it is. We have patients who are acutely ill, pulmonary consequences can be really, really serious for a lot of our hospitalized patients.
GeriPal
JUNE 9, 2022
Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. By diagnosis? By prognosis?
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Today we talk with two psychologists who are deeply invested in addressing psychological aspects of care for people living with serious illness. That rings true to me. Eric: Yeah.
GeriPal
JANUARY 30, 2025
However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. We really spent a lot of time helping the clinicians see that a patient’s illness, understanding and prognostic awareness was just as important as their pain scale, their pain score.
GeriPal
JULY 21, 2022
Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement.
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