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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

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
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Episode 232: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 15 – Housing is Health: Racism and Homelessness – Clinician + Community Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

During this episode, we gained insight from special guests Dr. Margot Kushel and Mr. Bobby Watts about what brought them into their fields, how their work reaches the most marginalized, and what can be done at the community and structural level to address homelessness. They would eventually end up back at where the hospitals they came from.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

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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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Also the same hospital system? I’m just stunned even writing that!

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. He created fee for service, special fee for depression. So what that means is I take care of you just in my clinic, just in my hospital. And I was terrified.