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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

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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.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians. Emergency rooms. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. Tom: We should have had you sing Urgent Emergency. Eric: Okay.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room. The idea of listening with your ear, so E being educate, A, assess, and R, respond. The educate is really about these are the risk factors, and they are significant. Or was that just the lingering conversations?

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues? A lot of assisted livings, it’s acted like it’s not even a choice, that it’s usually the default is you go to the emergency room. I wish we did a better job.

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

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” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.” Well, there’s this descriptive phase where there’s a verbal and physical examination and the conditions discussed, and then, procedures are discussed. And the blue stripey bear says to the red stripey bear, “I have a fracture.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. Ruth: Also in a few short words, we found similar to our initial study that there were differences in physical environment. What might be contributing?”

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes.