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Comparison of the sustainability of the impact of healthcare professionals' training in two approaches to serious illness con [Palliative and end-of-life care]

Annals of Family Medicine

A trial of the Serious Illness Care Program compared two approaches to Advance Care Planning, interprofessional and individual. We therefore compared how the two approaches affected the burden of care of family caregivers of patients with serious illnesses. and the individual arm (T1: 10.8 ± 9.0; T2: 9.1 ± 6.8;

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State Restrictions & Gender-Affirming Healthcare: A CERA Study [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The ability of healthcare professionals to assist transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people in accessing safe and effective care has been impacted by recent laws and policies imposed in many states, along with other public rights. Study Design and Analysis: Cross-sectional survey.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

It’s broader than just psychedelic assisted psychotherapy because there’s non-psychotherapists often involved, and it’s different from what we do in conventional mental health. People experiencing homelessness, as I mentioned before, have a lot of trauma, mental health issues, substance use disorders.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Katie: Yeah.

Illness 136
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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.