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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. And either of those could be given to the patient or an informant. So there are some studies going on in that direction as well.

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How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

The Motivated MD

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. However, for many high-income healthcare professionals, investing in more than just one’s employer retirement plan will be commonplace. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: How about you, David?

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have. Why do so many (most, all??)

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? They need, they need some, a little bit of information and probably a little more than that, what we like to call an edge. By diagnosis?

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades. What do we know about.