FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

We believe the proposed 2022 guideline provides much needed clarification of CDC’s recommendations for both practitioners and regulators. As CDC notes in the 2022 proposed guideline, the 2016 guideline provided twelve recommendations for primary care clinicians who prescribe opioids for chronic pain in outpatient settings.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The recommendations do not apply to inpatient hospital care, in the emergency department or other observed settings. When starting opioid therapy for acute, subacute, or chronic pain, clinicians should prescribe immediate-release opioids instead of extended-release/long-acting (“ER/LA”) opioids.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. They were all actually publicly traded or private equity owned for-profit hospice providers. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. 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. hospice use).

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

In fact, no one in this hospital died that was not on comfort care. And of the ER screening program, I’ve seen 266 people, 266 goals of care conversations in the ER, which were pretty significant. We have lost so many nurses. We are a community-based hospital. Pretty … Just all things, right?

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