PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Attention to any toxidromes, any abnormal vital signs or mental status, eye findings, and neurologic examination provide the greatest help in narrowing the differential diagnosis. Laboratory evaluation should be based on individual patient history and exam. 2015;34(5):812-818 Chun TH. Ann Emerg Med. Ann Emerg Med. 2014;63(6):666-675.e663.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

In defending the complete broadcast, Lilly called out similar elements from each of the individual components as demonstrating its intent to have all three viewed sequentially. And in this case the presentation would be compliant whether each component was shown individually, or, when combining all three sequentially.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

The following is a summary of “PLASMIC score to aid diagnosis of aHUS: an analysis of C5 inhibitor clinical trials and the PINC AI™ healthcare database,” published in the May 2025 issue of BMC Nephrology by Uriol-Rivera et al. Around 85% had scores ≤ 5 (range: 3–5), with similar distribution across trials.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system. What does this diagnosis mean to you?

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? And that’s where things like diagnosis triggers, if you will, prognostic triggers, and then the ideal need-based triggers. Eric: Our outpatient service does have guides around diagnosis and prognosis. Alex: It gets very local and individualizes as you were saying. Kate: A diagnosis.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. Individuals over 65 years of age at home Yes 23 (65.7) 150 (54.3) 126 (45.7)

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Eric: So Scott, two questions for you then is since this is aimed, POLST is people with limited life expectancy, we also have no randomized control trials of CPR of individuals in this population. Gretchen Schwarze like surgery, four things, live longer, feel better, be more functional, make a diagnosis. Karl: You can write it in.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Zachary: So seeing a non-onc population at the VA and out-patient at Dana-Farber, and that when someone comes to me with a diagnosis of opioid use disorder, it is much easier you kind of have an idea of where you’re going to start. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Melissa: The other scenario that exists is just disenrollment because an individual is hospitalized. People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. Melissa, what are your thoughts on that?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about palliative care for individuals with mental illness. Depending on your geography, who you are as an individual, the ethical parameter you’re considering. There’s a Boguts case, a patient with anorexia who utilized medical aid and dying. Oh, yeah, yeah. Good artist.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

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. Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. And we interestingly did not really see any change in function in those individuals, which has somewhat been reported in some places elsewhere, which makes one wonder if they maybe weren’t accounting for serious illness in some of those populations.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. As you know the healthcare system right now, we struggle. But in the healthcare system, they are not the same.

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