Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Diagnosis and Treatment of AVFs AVFs are diagnosed by a healthcare provider. If the healthcare provider suspects you have an AVF, they will request other tests to confirm it. If the healthcare provider suspects you have an AVF, they will request other tests to confirm it.

IT 52

IT Healthcare Appointment Diagnose 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. There has to be effective support provided behind any type of screening strategy in order for it to truly be effective. Joe, your thoughts?

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Diabetes 74

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 74

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 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.

IT 121

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

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. So these are happening, it’s affecting how we provide care to our patients. So NIA and further funded this coordinating center that we call Clin-STAR.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Understanding the patient’s medical history is crucial for an accurate diagnosis.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Management Illness Diagnose 130

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It's the first point of contact for all your medical needs, from routine check-ups to managing chronic conditions. They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs. It creates a continuous health history that benefits both you and your provider.

Clinic 52

Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. How much should it change how we think about making a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? Nate, welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast. Absolutely.

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

There are a lot of old myths out there about managing urinary tract symptoms and UTI’s in older adults. For example, we once thought that the lower urinary tract was sterile, but we now know it has its own microbiome, which may even provide protection against infections. ” So there was that over diagnosis that’s happened.

Management 123

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 123

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 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.

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. This requires emergency treatment.

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

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? What are some strategies for integrating mental health support?

Mental Health 114

Mental Health Healthcare Professional Community Healthcare 114

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

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?

IT 102

IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

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.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

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.

Telehealth 106

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. And how am I going to manage their pain? Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch: . Two great videos on buprenorphine initiation.

Illness 103

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 103

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today.

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? But I gave this talk, and one of the questions I asked a group of maybe 150 residents was, do you talk to your healthcare provider about your medical cannabis use?

Medical 100

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 100

GeriPal

JULY 11, 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.

Patient-Centered 110

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. And this is for all of us, that when we’re going into this space of providing inclusive and affirming care, it really starts out with humility, because there’s a lot to learn.

Individual 82

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. And this has been really interesting because people are like, they just got their diagnosis.

IT 98

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? That’s what we do.

Patients 74

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. So I would agree, just in terms of not trying to dismiss a lot of these patients in terms of deconditioning and really trying to sometimes hone in on the diagnosis despite a Bnp level that is not necessarily very high. Nicole 12:14 No, HFpEF is cool, and it’s fine. What is GDMT?

Primary Care 114

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Two hundred seventy-six of the healthcare professionals were reached (response rate: 85.4%). COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) COVID-19 diagnosis of a relative Yes 98 (46.4) COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) COVID-19 diagnosis of a relative Yes 98 (46.4) 150 (54.3) 126 (45.7)

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Vaccination Healthcare Professional Healthcare Primary Care 40

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. Jane: Right.

Provider 119

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? I think the AI can allow for that complexity but still provide some guidance. We should build models to identify symptoms, to do proactive symptom management, and AI can totally do that. Eric: Yeah. Alex: I want to hear more use cases.

IT 100

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. They supported patients, they gave them a holding environment, they did symptom management, yada, yada, yada, like all the things we know palliative care clinicians do.

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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.

IT 127

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. I think that there are some really great for-profit hospices out there that are actually able to provide more services and more open access for patients. I just want to highlight some work.

Families 107

Families Family IT Patients 107

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). But there was this expectation once the Supreme Court ruling went through and as legislation was being developed that palliative care physicians would be the ones providing this. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

And for many years, I think there was a focus on physicians and then providers. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. Gordon 12:01 One absolute right answer to all these questions, and we will provide that. Is the sort of task to manage. What should I say? So what you have to be is what Chat GPT responded.

IT 133

IT Illness Families Family 133

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

I wonder from a provider perspective, if you’re open to talking about your team. I think that as everyone is already starting to allude to, I think that there’s this in between space with adolescence and young adulthood that falls between our two areas of pediatrics and adult provider work. Eric: Yeah. It was incredible.

IT 83

IT Families Family Illness 83

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.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. So it’s a lot of palliation. I gotta get some sleep.

Illness 102

Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This tool provides a clinical recommendation for starting/stopping medications and cancer screening based on the prognosis of the patient in front of you. And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. So we provide a range of these clinically meaningful benefits. James: Yeah.

Clinic 68

Clinic IT Patients Medical 68

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

We invited three geriatricians and memory care doctors, Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish, to talk about this question and many others swirling around on how to safely prescribe these drugs and manage patients on them (like what to do about anticoagulation). I would look at their functional ability. Eric: PET scans. Eric: Yeah.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. He provides spiritual support to the patients, to the staff, and to the peer workers.

Families 133

Families Family IT Community 133