GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We provide critical education. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.” Lynn: Well, I was just going to say there’s such an amazing breadth of things that rehab can provide. ” So that’s something that I think a lot about.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

To me, I think the Greenhouse folks have proven that you can provide quality care in a home-like environment cost effectively if it’s done right. It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Mike, you’re nodding your head no.

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Family physicians and family health workers, considered reliable sources of vaccine information, have a unique position where individuals in rural and urban areas can access frequently, uninterruptedly, cheaply, and easily [2]. Two hundred seventy-six of the healthcare professionals were reached (response rate: 85.4%).

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So usually they’ll make recommendations, maybe some medication adjustments or something like that, and then the provider that’s caring for them in house will take over from there. So the palliative care service doesn’t necessarily need to provide those potentially. Eric 13:49 Right. Alex 14:59 What do you think?

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. Jane: Right.

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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. We weren’t randomizing providers or patients. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy?

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. Basically, there’s a lot of variation amongst hospice providers.

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Families Family IT Patients 106

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process. Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? Later on, of course, we added health professionals to, you know, give us more information. So their caregivers did focus groups. Eric 14:42 Okay.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. We didn’t make them do anything with that information, just document it. Eric 38:32 I just want to know what do we do with this information? Kate 23:23 Hospital length of stay.

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Kate: You just embed it into routine care and workflows, and you really aim for a broader population,, outcomes that are routinely collected care that can be provided in the course of routine care, and not trying to manipulate and control all of the factors. They have a lot of information and good knowledge about that patient.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

After all, the labeling is intended to do exactly that: it informs patients and prescribers of the risks to ensure the product is used effectively and in a manner that mitigates risks, according to FDA’s understanding of the relevant science.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I think that policy in the emergency department is showing that no matter what that provider is looking to see if a patient has a preference. So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. We do have the information of both our emergent call center and our electronic methods to access those forms.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

And the role of the palliative care provider is to figure out, knowing that different things affect different people, is what causes somebody in that particular instance to feel their dignity is being undermined. And the data was saying, “What is really important is the way you, the care provider, experience that person.”

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. I’m just stunned even writing that!

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 115

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ). Alex: Yeah.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Susan: Yeah, I don’t think the word even surfaced.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And so spouses are typically the ones for patients who provide most of the caregiving support. And that’s in addition to the financial, emotional companionship, and psychosocial support that spouses typically provide. Like if you had a magic wand, you had healthcare providers, like, one thing they. Eric 41:25 Great.

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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. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. As Pahlavi said, you could refer to other providers. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And if I remember that study correctly, it was priming both patients and providers in the outpatient setting to do goals of care conversations. And the guy was just so good. Am I summarizing that right?

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 83

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Eric: Okay.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

FDA Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2025

Commissioner Makary has taken a more subdued stance, stating in a podcast with Megyn Kelly that FDA doesnt have any plans to ban direct-to-consumer advertising, but there are some things that we can do to make sure that the information being presented is a complete picture.

Healthcare Professional 59

Healthcare Professional Manufacturing Healthcare Utilities 59

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

What was life for you as a provider pre-pandemic? We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. And so we’re able to provide access to those patients that may be home-bound or home limited or have a lot of struggles to get in.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73