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Exploring the educational needs and preferences of physicians in pharmacogenomics in primary care practice [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Ten percent of patients using prescription drugs experience adverse drug events (ADE). One proposed reason is the lack of knowledge about PGx among clinicians slowing down the potential for clinical implementation, showing the main barrier to implementation is lack of healthcare professionals’ education.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

JAMA study just came out an electronic symptom monitoring for people with metastatic cancer showed improvement in their symptoms and quality of life. Can this just be done by a electronic symptom monitoring program? And I’d say electronic symptom monitoring is another act of component of supportive care. ” Right?

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. These were EHR documents in the patient’s chart built within the Atrium Health’s electronic health record, where they document other things. So that’s by far the best studied. Kate 16:25 Yeah, right.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. Samir: Yeah. I think it’d be hard to find someone who would say no to that.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care. You sort of had a month after all of those events. Eric 27:07 Month of that event, did they also see inpatient palliative care? Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

But, for a majority, it’s a first time event. It’s a healthcare crisis, it’s lack of tenant protections, death of a spouse. There are traditional reasons why older adults are homeless, and many of them, they’ve been longstanding, they’ve been unhoused.