GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

So we measure things like hospitalizations and ed visits and the like, and those data are a bit weaker, but they’re also, you know, I think they need to be contextualized in what, why we would even want to reduce hospitalizations right. Why would we want to? Now, we would believe this from a primary care perspective.

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

We are fortunate to have Tammie Quest, emergency and palliative trained and long a leader in this space, to help us unpack and contextualize these findings. 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.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

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? I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. Eric: Okay. Kate: 3,500.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

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.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98