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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. And one person even called the system 75 times and that was just a light-bulb event for me. Welcome, Katie, to the GeriPal podcast. Katie: Thanks for the opportunity. Katie: Awesome.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

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Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. Brittany 15:07 Right.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. And we’ve really tried to serve that hospice mission of serving the patient and the family.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. 80% died exactly where they wanted to and 83% were reconnected to family or friends through a psychosocial support system that we put into place.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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If it’s continuing and it’s getting worse and maybe they have some swelling in the legs, there are some subtle findings on the echo, but really think for a second, could this be this really common cardiovascular condition, echocardiogram, maybe even a referral to a cardiologist? A pill organizer, having family.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

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So we have a list of various interventions like hospice referral, like more intensive treatment for blood pressure, more intensive treatment for diabetes, for dysglycemia, hyperglycemia, statins, bisphosphonates. So the time to benefit page is trying to make the mortality indexes link more closely to the time to benefit.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care. Stupid theory.