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Pain-Related Medication in Adults with Intellectual Disability: a systematic review [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Measures: Varied by study design; self/carer-report or electronic health records (EHR). Following removal of duplicates 20,425 titles, 2,716 abstracts, 341 full-text articles were screened; 28 articles were eligible for inclusion. Screening completed by two independent reviewers; conflicts resolved through consensus.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. Is this our role?

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

I had it on my screen. Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. Can this just be done by a electronic symptom monitoring program?

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

For the foreseeable future, it’s going to be right 90%, 95%, 85%, so the safety system, of course, will be, the AI says something, makes a recommendation or gives you a draft diagnosis or drafts your note, and then, the failsafe is, the doctor reads it over. AI has a long and not storied history in healthcare. This is GPT-4.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? So I’m just going to share on my screen. Tell me what would you… Juliet: Fully Integrated electronic medical records system that made this very easy for clinicians to do. What’s that and what’s the shift there? Juliet: Sure. Eric: On EHR?

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