GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. That we can’t predict when they’re gonna get sick or when they might go to the ED, when that big event may occur, but it’s also the uncertainty of who might be able to get transplanted. So I go between. Alex 07:56 Mm hmm.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.” You may not see the big picture, like treating somebody with advanced dementia by hospitalizing them and starting antibiotics for aspiration pneumonia and potentially a peg tube. We know hospital culture influences how we care for our patients.

IT 128

IT Family Families Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

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