The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

This prestigious award is part of The Physicians Foundation’s Leadership Award Program and honors a physician who has gone above and beyond to connect patients with the social, economic, educational and environmental resources necessary for their overall health. The award is named in honor of Richard (Buz) Cooper, M.D., As the U.S.

Primary Care 40

Primary Care Community Chronic Disease Management Education 40

Vascular Physician

JULY 11, 2021

Evaluation begins with three screening questions: Are your fingers or toes unusually sensitive to cold? Educating patients on the link between emotional stress and Raynaud's phenomenon is important and attention to mental health disorders should be considered. How is Raynaud's Phenomenon diagnosed?

Referral 52

Referral Mental Health Patients Screening 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. Katie: Yeah.

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

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.

Community 116

Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Well, so I guess it depends on what you say screening. That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes.

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And what does that referral process look like? So that part we know and I.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

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. There’s really no added extra resource or time that the coordinators really need to put to doing the screening, themselves. And there are only two of us.”

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: So I think shifting that a little bit is what helped me do a lot of the education that I do to therapists and physicians, just to have it on their radar. Is there a screening tool that we can use, or just questions that you ask older adults around driving safety? Emmy: I completely agree in terms of the red flags.

IT 102

IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

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. It is a screening? In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. It’s way more complex than an educational program. This doesn’t work.”

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Joe: Well, the proposed rule changes would’ve included, for example, that you have to have a face-to-face encounter with a patient in order to prescribe over telemedicine, or you have to have received a referral from someone who did have a face-to-face, and they also would’ve had to be DEA certified. What state are they in?

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73