Healthcare Professional Medical Referral Screening 
Integrated Care News by CFHA
MAY 1, 2025
Traylor and colleagues (2025) show that generative‑AI tools can boost health literacy by translating medical jargon into plain language. Reclaiming Time and Attention Primary care professionals may log more than eleven hours a day, over half of it in the electronic health record (Menchaca, 2025). JAMA , 329(16), 1333–1336. Traylor, D.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
People who experience HT interact with the healthcare system before, during, and after the period of victimization, yet there remains limited knowledge and intervention among healthcare professionals. Few medical schools include this topic in their curriculum, and it is not standardized in undergraduate medical education.
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GeriPal
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. Katie: Yeah.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
We have two new FDA-approved medications that reduce that amyloid buildup and modestly slow down the progression of the disease. How should we screen for cognitive impairment? He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Great to be back.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant? There’s really no added extra resource or time that the coordinators really need to put to doing the screening, themselves.
GeriPal
JULY 21, 2022
Emmy: But we know that physiologic changes with aging, like decreasing night vision and so forth, as well as medications, as well as medical conditions, can all affect whether you can drive. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. They’re really not. Emmy: Yeah.
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