Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

referral networks, technology infrastructure) to drive the transformation needed to facilitate early detection for cognitive impairment in primary care. Conclusions To meet pressing needs for ADRD diagnosis and management, early detection of cognitive issues in primary care settings is needed.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Healthcare Finance 130

PEMBlog

JULY 14, 2023

The foot X-Ray taken of the foot of the patient with the foot problem The Diagnosis She has a fracture at the base of the 5th metatarsal (Jones fracture). Management The XRays of stress fractures and acute fractures can look similar, but the management differs significantly. Diagnosis and Management of Common Foot Fractures.

Management 97

Management Diagnosis Referral Patients 97

PEMBlog

MAY 28, 2025

ED referrals are often prompted by incidental findings of proteinuria or hematuria, or clinical concerns for hypertensive encephalopathy or PRES. DVT symptoms or syncope may precede PE diagnosis. Symptoms may precede formal SLE diagnosis. Pediatric SLE–towards a Comprehensive Management Plan. Nature Reviews.

Diagnosis 94

Diagnosis Hypertension Complication Referral 94

PEMBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The foot X-Ray taken of the foot of the patient with the foot problem The Diagnosis She has a fracture at the base of the 5th metatarsal (Jones fracture). Management The XRays of stress fractures and acute fractures can look similar, but the management differs significantly. You get an X-Ray. See the following XRays for example.

Management 94

Management Referral Diagnosis Patients 94

Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

Thus, DPC forms a better long-term investment focused on preventive care, as opposed to only treating patients post-diagnosis. Easy access and relationship-driven care minimize long-term healthcare expenses and cut down on unnecessary urgent care and emergency room visits. If you have a great relationship with your PCP, keep it!

Primary Care 52

Primary Care PCP PCP Insurance 52

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

While primary care providers are trained to manage conditions like diabetes, they rely on endocrinologists to provide more specialized care. You might get referred to an endocrinologist if your condition is complex or difficult to manage. At PACT Endocrinology, a referral isn’t required.

Board-Certified 52

Board-Certified Primary Care Insurance Diabetes 52

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. The role of lifestyle and dietary modifications in management. Management of gastritis and the consideration of Helicobacter pylori infection. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”). 18 U.S.C. § 18 US.C. § 220(a) (emphasis added).

Lab Testing 52

Lab Testing Referral Individual Patient-Centered 52

PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Yes, and so thinking about these imaging modalities, I keep coming back to the fact that most of the time when we’re ordering one, it’s because we’re thinking about what’s next from a management standpoint for the patient. They’re not just the test referral center. and it can be overwhelming.

Families 101

Families Family Hospital Patient-Centered 101

Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

3], it was found that the resident doctors have to do multiple works simultaneously during their shifts and there had been multiple interruptions while doing each task which could result in errors in patient management. This may result in errors in the diagnosis of the patient whom the doctor was examining initially.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Government Referral Hospital 52

FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”). 18 U.S.C. § 18 US.C. § 220(a) (emphasis added).

Lab Testing 40

Lab Testing Individual Referral Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Here at UW Health, we call it our Swallow Service.

IT 125

IT Patient-Centered Hospital Individual 125

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

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

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. And well skilled.

Telehealth 106

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The Southern US accounts for more than half of all new HIV diagnoses, and in Georgia, where I practice, new HIV diagnosis rates in 2022 were seven times higher among Black women than White women and two times higher than among White men. PW: How can clinicians promote greater ART adherence?

Mental Health 114

Mental Health Healthcare Professional Community Healthcare 114

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” Because often what we hear from patients, “I do a lot of pain management research,” but mood comes up in that a lot, is that, “Oh, I don’t want to talk to my doctor about this. Is this a new onset depression?

Mental Health 123

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

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. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Should they?

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic?

Patient-Centered 110

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

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.” Emmy: I would say one big thing, though, is I try to not just make any decision based on a diagnosis, perhaps obviously.

Families 102

Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. If it’s continuing and it’s getting worse and maybe they have some swelling in the legs, there are some subtle findings on the echo, but really think for a second, could this be this really common cardiovascular condition, echocardiogram, maybe even a referral to a cardiologist?

Primary Care 114

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

If the community hospital isn’t able to provide a service like tertiary care, oncology care, they would get a referral to UCSF or wherever, just like anybody in the community. And the dad just totally lost control, major anger management issues. But the cost to society is higher because they have to be escorted by an officer.

Families 133

Families Family IT Community 133

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? And we’ll say that we will link to an article that Hope and Thaddeus and others, I think Tim Quill was on there, wrote in journal, Pain and symptom Management, I think it was. Then just got the diagnosis. Alex 23:47 Yeah.

IT 89

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 89

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. Eric: And Susan? And then, we have nonprofits that are community-based organizations.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. It’s not just about physical symptom management. English or spanish speakers.

Patient-Centered 120

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And the point of that is that so many people, in my experience, and I’m sure it’s the same initial diagnosis of cancer, that’s the last thing that I want to talk about. And I said, sure. And I had that mortified look on my face of God.

Illness 131

Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? Get the hospice referral. Juliet: And so the question is like, how do we… There are these massive shifts because that’s not just about symptom management. What’s that and what’s the shift there? Rachelle: Juliet, do you want to take that one?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

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. And Eric, you asked about whether the ACP conversation would happen before.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80