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. Another recommendation that I have is regarding transport calls.

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Family Families Hospital Patient-Centered 101

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) hosted a year long, monthly Project ECHO ® educational series on OUD. Roles included physicians, pharmacists, nurses, MA’s, office managers, advance practice nurses, behavioral health staff, and office staff.

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Primary Care Transportation Family Physician Education 130

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Anish 07:54 I would say sort of echoing what Emily was just referring to is education is key. So I think education is key.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

PEMBlog

MAY 24, 2023

This podcast episode hosted by Brad Sobolewski ( @PEMTweets ) and co-authored by Dennis Ren ( @DennisRenMD ) is all about age-appropriate non pharmacologic management strategies for agitated children. The combative multitrauma patient: a protocol for prehospital management. West J Emerg Med. 2012 Feb;13(1):35-40. PMC3298214.

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Management Patient-Centered Physicals Transportation 54

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Have you had difficulty managing a particular type of cancer pain? Janet Abrahm is one of the world’s experts in pain and symptom management for patients with cancer joins us to talk about (among other things): Ketamine for hyperalgesia and allodynia, how to treat dissociative side effects. Summary Transcript Summary. Janet: Thank you.

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Management IT Patients Family 101

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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. Tim 43:15 I’m an educator at heart. Because I mean, California is different. They have an advance directive. Eric 43:13 Great.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: Because if you’ve got other ways to get things delivered or you have good public transportation or you have a lot of family around, that’s a very different kind of calculus than if you live on your ranch and there’s no way to otherwise get to town, and there’s nobody else around.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. But again, mindfulness, I think, is a big issue, and that’s how I counsel.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound. And so it really got me interested in how we improve symptom management. Not just pain, but symptom management, then for people that are in a nursing home and that.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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. It could be in housing, it could be a standalone senior center, home delivered meals, nutrition counseling and nutrition education done by registered dieticians.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. And I was terrified.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers. If someone needs imaging, if someone needs an MR, or CT, you bring them back to the hospital, so there’s some transport costs there.

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