GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Corita 09:39 Yeah, so we used the electronic health record, I think, in support.

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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. The post PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare. And as you’ve written in your work, there is a justified mistrust of the healthcare system and an ethic of struggle that needs to be appreciated.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

But there’s no real system and systematic electronic way to identify need-based palliative care right now. And I actually think the cool thing about a needs-based approach would allow us to better utilize the service. Kate Courtright appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults. Really, to be a bridge between whether it’s a health plan on the healthcare side, Greg mentioned a hospital discharge, which is so common.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? Can someone describe for me what a stepped model is? Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on. That is correct.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

But I think that as Ruth was saying, while the prior Jumpstart was quite effective at both increasing frequency of and quality of both care conversations in the outpatient space, it was just too labor-intensive to think about implementing widely across a healthcare system. Should it be decreased utilization, decreased use of CPR?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 84

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I’m worried about all of us as healthcare workers, but particularly… And when I say particularly those in the hospital, because they are just tired. If they had a healthcare agent, then this would be better, right? They’re looking at difficult outcomes, utilization outcomes, right? Rachelle: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. So if you count talking to a nurse on the telephone and then writing an electronic prescription as a form of telemedicine, that was the norm for hospice prescribing of controlled substances even before the pandemic.

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