GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And so to them, the real frustrating part is they’re supposed to be treating people like it’s a one-time event the very first time, and the system of EMS is not designed to be longitudinal complex care, and yet that’s basically what we’re seeing happening. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 116

FDA Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

(A) IN GENERAL.Each party that violates or assists in the violation of paragraph (1) shall forfeit and pay to the United States a civil penalty sufficient to deter violations of paragraph (1), but in no event greater than 3 times the value received by the party that is reasonably attributable to the violation of paragraph (1).

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 2, 2025

(A) IN GENERAL.Each party that violates or assists in the violation of paragraph (1) shall forfeit and pay to the United States a civil penalty sufficient to deter violations of paragraph (1), but in no event greater than 3 times the value received by the party that is reasonably attributable to the violation of paragraph (1).

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Consulting Manufacturing Referral IT 59

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

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? The majority of these folks have some sort of encephalopathic event, so making sure that they have a person and that person knows their wishes.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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? Eric 14:10 Yeah. A pill organizer, having family.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I think what we are starting to find with antibiotics, especially in older adults, is with increasing duration as well as increasing dose, older adults are especially susceptible to adverse events associated with the drugs as well as other risk factors like C. difficile infections.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

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. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Michele. Michele: Thank you for having me. Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here. Michele: Yep.

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Families Family IT Community 133

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It’s that first place that you start where it may not be the AAAs job, but we’ve organized where they have to have the partnerships and they know who the players are and they know who to make a referral to. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

If you have two or more febrile seizures, you have a 50% chance of subsequent events. And so briefly, let’s talk about that neurology referral and follow up. So the overall recurrence rate is approximately 30 to 35%. I will tell parents it’s a one in three chance.

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Illness Vaccination Families Family 59