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. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes. Devika: That’s right.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

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 would make referrals to psycho oncology. I would make referrals to Joe as well as part of the team. Who will emerge victorious? So those social workers were involved.

Telehealth 106

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms. In many, many, many of these studies, they excluded people with severe mental health distress, so certain mental health diagnoses were exclusion criteria from a palliative care study. Eric: Go ahead. Eric: I love this. Fantastic place.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. Somebody who’s older, maybe just diagnosed them with very mild dementia. Absolutely. Are you driving?

Families 102

Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

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 114

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97