PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

And I think that when we’re faced with a child who has one of these diagnoses, that’s where we need to weigh the risks and benefits. And so we routinely do outreach with our community providers. Nobody wants to miss an appendicitis. Nobody wants to miss a head bleed, right? We don’t wanna miss anything.

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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. So you could start that in the emergency department if the symptoms are severe enough, provided that they have primary doctor follow ups.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults. Slightly a shift in more patients diagnosed with kidney disease or now their GFR looks lower so now there’s different concerns regarding prescribing medications.

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Edge Family Medicine

APRIL 10, 2025

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

An Outside Expert Shares Her Perspective Nadine Harris, MD , who was not involved in the study, spoke with Physician’s Weekly ( PW ) about the results and ways to provide optimal care to Black women with HIV. PW: Why was it important to do this study? How can clinicians apply intersectionality to their care of this population?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources. Eric 10:25 Great.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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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. It depends on the referrals.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

If somebody has cancer and they’re recently diagnosed, somebody has cancer and they’re undergoing active treatment, somebody has cancer and they’re in early remission, now they’re a year or two years, three years, four years out and they still have pain. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Jessie: Yes. So, one out of 10?

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: So I do think at the bare minimum, healthcare providers who are caring for, interacting with older adults, should at least be aware of driving, including how new diagnoses or new medications might affect it, to be able to give people at least some guidance about what to watch out for, even if it’s just the basics. .”

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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.

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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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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

And the role of the palliative care provider is to figure out, knowing that different things affect different people, is what causes somebody in that particular instance to feel their dignity is being undermined. And the data was saying, “What is really important is the way you, the care provider, experience that person.”

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And really providing these estimates of how long a person has to live affects a lot of the decisions we have to make clinically. That’s a difficult decision to make, and providing these estimates can help clinicians and patients with that type of shared decision-making. Those have a very, very long time horizon.

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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.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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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. This is what I do here.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? So provide multiple sort of concrete examples of what you’re talking about. Areej 24:39 For sure.

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Previously healthy and developmentally and neurologically normal children with two brief self resolved seizures within a 24 hour period, so technically a complex febrile seizure, can be discharged home with as needed neurology referral if the family and you are comfortable with that plan. These are autosomal dominant seizures.

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