Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

Relying solely on permanent staff can lead to periods of over- or under-staffing, as patient volumes fluctuate due to various factors: Seasonal illnesses (e.g., Ultimately, utilizing locum tenens providers as part of your modern healthcare staffing solutions will help ensure your patients get the care they deserve quickly.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Healthcare Professional Provider Community 52

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ann: Well, I think teamwork is key in this space and I am a big baseball fan, big Red Sox fan, which is not a good thing to be right now, but I really think it’s indicative of how we should all be working together on this team to help our seriously ill patients. Ann: No, he was very excited. So we used a lot of rehab to death.

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Participants were critically ill and intubated. P AI R stands for Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. What is sludge?

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And PAIR stands for the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. So, Alex, imagine you’re a seriously-ill hospitalized patient and I’m your doctor, unluckily for you. Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization. Scott, welcome back to GeriPal. Scott: Pleasure to be here. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Okay.

Consulting 120

Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. So thought it related to our theme of disruptive events about different ways in which you may experience an early demise.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119