GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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. Alex: I saw Des present this work during the NPC, National Palliative Care Research Center Foley retreat this past year in Jackson Hole. Eric: Go ahead.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

EKGs Discounted lab services Laceration repairs Small skin lesion removal Medication dispensing Seeking to provide primary care services that are intended to prevent and treat general issues and diagnose non-urgent conditions. Specialty referrals can be reduced or eliminated.

Family Medicine 40

Family Medicine DO Families Family 40

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

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. Then I would say any clear deficits in thinking, vision, physical mobility, big new diagnoses, those; certainly cognitive changes, because that’s a really big one in terms of risk.

IT 102

IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. Because I know in the early 2000s, there was this whole thing about reporting estimation of GFR, let’s get the GFR in front of people so that we can diagnose CKD and that was the equation that was being used.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

I’m fully present. So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. To diagnose, to come up with a formulation, to be able to really get hold of the cause of this individual suffering. I’m not distracted.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. I would hope a referral would go to what’s called an ADRC, and it’s called an Aging and Disability Resource Center.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. Before the primary care visit. Danny 10:07 Yep, that was the goal.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 80

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Areej 03:50 So at the state of the science, I was actually presenting a study that was focused on addressing sexual health concerns in transplant survivors, and I actually told the story of the state of the science for those of you who were there. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness.

Illness 131

Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Do All Children Who Present With a Complex Febrile Seizure Need a Lumbar Puncture? Admittedly, 25 percent of children with meningitis will have seizures at or before the initial presentation, but almost all of these kids will also have other signs and symptoms of meningitis, like altered consciousness, nuclear rigidity, a petechial rash.

Illness 59

Illness Vaccination Families Family 59