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APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. Corita 09:39 Yeah, so we used the electronic health record, I think, in support.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. So it’s a very scary culture for people who are not in healthcare.

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APRIL 4, 2024

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Also the same hospital system? Eric: And how did you do that? That’s when they got enrolled. Eric: Okay. Kate: 3,500.

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MAY 18, 2023

If you get an electronic alert, how many times clinicians will just cancel out that alert and keep going. Todd: There are some studies that’ll show decreased readmission if they’re stopped in hospital. It’s a little hard to, I think come to an inclusive recommendation.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I would say that a lot of the education we received were on cutting edge research and the latest drugs in clinical trials, the latest cellular therapies that are coming out. So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. Or electronically, to fill out, right? John: Right.

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JANUARY 20, 2023

As somebody who works in a nursing home, I can barely read a nursing home note anymore because if it’s on electronic medical record, it’s usually a bunch of check boxes, several pages. Mike: Electronic record keeping, Eric, is the government’s gift to defense attorneys. It’s just these clicks.

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APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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APRIL 18, 2024

At the Mayo clinic, for example, they’ve got a very robust hospital at home program. That’s a risk with electronic health records in general. And in your book, you’ve written previously talked previously about adoption of electronic health records, how much hope and hype there was around adoption of health records.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all. And if hospitalized, and then the step quality of life is monitored, if their quality of life dropped, they stepped up. Jennifer 27:11 Yes.

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JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. And that’s critical. Eric: Yeah. Things like that.

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JULY 13, 2023

[laughter] Bob: That’s what happens when junior faculty get invited on the podcast [laughter] Eric: So we’re going to be talking about the article that just came out in JAMA on a priming intervention for goals of care conversations in hospitalized patients with serious illness. Three hospitals all within the UW medicine system.

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MARCH 27, 2025

There’s also education that goes with it, educating, like, what does that mean? So we have to collect what information we have available from Health Information exchange and electronic health records. Sydney 21:41 So we did find increased documentation of the primary outcome in the electronic health records.

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JULY 20, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. Joe: Great to be here. Welcome back to GeriPal, Brooke. Brooke: Thank you. Eric: Yeah.

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