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Experiences of Canadians without a primary care clinician [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Primary care is the bedrock of an effective healthcare system. Objective To characterize the healthcare-seeking behaviours and preferences for system reform of Canadians without a primary care clinician. Study Design and Analysis National bilingual online survey distributed in Fall 2022. Results 22.0%

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

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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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). This was the hot topic at AHPM. Katie: Thank you.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

But to come back to just nursing homes, when you think about what a nursing home is and the range of people that they take care of, you can see why it’s so tricky to think about how do we get the right services in there. Do they need a palliative care doctor, nurse practitioner? Like, what does that part look like?

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. Then there’s workforce, so thinking about the education and training of the workforce and how do we enhance that. Eric: There was also a comment about expansion of the role of the CNA in the nursing home in the report. Jasmine: Technology.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

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. In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system.

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