GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? So I’m going to be called every 20 minutes to go to the ER. You’d have to tailor it to each individual emergency department because you couldn’t.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. Is it delirium from something else? It’s easy.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. We talk a lot about people being unhoused, which I think takes the blame away from the individual and kind of de.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100