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Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

BMJ

iDeliver was designed to evolve – multiple workshops were carried out throughout East Africa and India to collect feedback from end-users to rapidly iterate the design and functionality. These comprehensive functions were developed using human-centred design methods to optimize useability.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

And it was her conceptual, like incorporation of functional decline, some measure of functional decline along with a serious illness diagnosis that you’re utilizing here. So there may be a reason that the the social safety net plays a role in preventing the negative effect of a negative workshop. It’s repetitive a bit here.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

” And she was saying that because of the message that had come through in this public event, where she, as a person with a diagnosis of dementia, had been invited on an equal basis with everybody else. I mean, really moving pretty quickly for a woman in her mid eighties, and she says, “You have given my life back to me.”

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

So one thing that we found, well, not just us, but it’s very commonly used in the diagnosis and management of incontinence and frail older adults as incontinence, as a geriatric syndrome, is a 48 hours voiding record. Workshops, symposia, at society meetings. Eric 35:23 Yeah, they’re in the beerus criteria, right?

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What Do Patients Have to Say about Gene Therapy Trials? An Upcoming FDA Public Meeting to Hear from Patients and Caregivers

FDA Law Blog

To further expand patient input into product development, the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Office of Therapeutic Products or “OTP” (formerly the Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies, or “OTAT”) is holding a free public workshop titled, Clinical Trials: The Patient Experience.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? It can help prevent disability, or it can make a diagnosis and that’s it. Gretchen: It can help you live longer. Surgery does nothing else. Alexis: Sure.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. Alex: It sounds like that might be a part of the workshops that you run. Redwing: That’s what we do in these workshops.