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Leveraging U=U Interventions for Black Women With HIV

Physician's Weekly

An Outside Expert Shares Her Perspective Nadine Harris, MD , who was not involved in the study, spoke with Physician’s Weekly ( PW ) about the results and ways to provide optimal care to Black women with HIV. What are some strategies for integrating mental health support? PW: Why was it important to do this study?

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

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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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. ” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change. And Mazie mentioned a few earlier. Mazie: Yes.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

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

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When we take a mental health history, for example, I think we ask people, we do the PHQ, or whatever it is that we’re doing, asking people that mood. Anybody with a DEA and… I should be very careful because this is different for physicians and advanced practice providers. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢. Katie: Yeah.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. They can’t believe it, but we come back again and again and again gently to provide that support. And so the attitude has unfortunately become like, we just don’t provide care to folks.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health.

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