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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

The model is predominantly physicians, advanced practice providers. We needed to build the relationships and trust and really provide a really good example of the value of palliative care outside of end of life care and advanced care planning. Can this just be done by a electronic symptom monitoring program? ” Right?

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

GeriPal

At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. You’re a little bit different from an electronic prompt and a lot more expensive.

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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. Eric: Last question from me.

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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

So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. As Pahlavi said, you could refer to other providers. Pallavi 19:45 It’s interesting.

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

GeriPal

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there. They deal with that.