GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So, if it’s a hospitalized patient, usually the referral will come through to the SLP service. The post Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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IT Patient-Centered Hospital Individual 124

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If there’s a clinical decision that would significantly affect the patient’s quality or even quantity of life, like dialysis decision making, transplant referral, all kinds of things like that and I really want the most accurate estimation of kidney function possible, I send a cystatin C to get a more accurate estimate.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

It is important to identify organizations willing to work closely with healthcare professionals where there is opportunity to get to know their leadership and mission and where there is transparency about goals, an easy referral process, and even warm handoffs. PW: How can clinicians improve the care of these patients?

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Mental Health Healthcare Professional Community Healthcare 114

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We would make referrals to psycho oncology. I would make referrals to Joe as well as part of the team. But that did not limit those clinicians from making referrals, as Vicky was just saying. But we do have the information about referrals to other ancillary providers as part of that multidisciplinary team. So it matters.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And what does that referral process look like? So that part we know and I.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? Should we just use the referrals, whatever’s coming into us, whoever, whatever clinician decides. By diagnosis?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

” 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. Mazie, I know it changes locale to locale, because your referral sources are going to be different. Mazie: Yes. ” Now we can address the issues.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. And what should we be doing as far as assessment?

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

So I just want to start out by saying I think one of the reasons a lot of the referrals also don’t happen, it’s not just lack of access to care. ” So that’s first and foremost to help with the referral, but we don’t have enough providers, and that’s not even the only thing. Eric: Go ahead.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So one of the big pieces of this is that idea of a referral at a second time when they’re less overwhelmed and stressed to figure out what happened. The post EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time?” If the buprenorphine is being prescribed for opioid use disorder, they’re not going to be following… Should they be following that longitudinally? ” Thoughts on that?

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? Eric 07:02 And real quick, Sarah, who do you see? Sarah 07:04 So in terms of, like, the type of patients?

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals. That’s a question too, Alex. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case?

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

If it’s continuing and it’s getting worse and maybe they have some swelling in the legs, there are some subtle findings on the echo, but really think for a second, could this be this really common cardiovascular condition, echocardiogram, maybe even a referral to a cardiologist? Eric 14:10 Yeah.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

If there’s a clinical decision that would significantly affect the patient’s quality or even quantity of life, like dialysis decision making, transplant referral, all kinds of things like that and I really want the most accurate estimation of kidney function possible, I send a cystatin C to get a more accurate estimate.

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Patient-Centered Complication IT Patients 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. The post How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

If the community hospital isn’t able to provide a service like tertiary care, oncology care, they would get a referral to UCSF or wherever, just like anybody in the community. If they need an acute hospitalization, they would be hospitalized in a hospital that we contract with.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

And so helping physicians have more fluency in general spiritual care and how to make referrals to specialists when needed. The post RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Eric: And lastly, LaVera.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So we have a list of various interventions like hospice referral, like more intensive treatment for blood pressure, more intensive treatment for diabetes, for dysglycemia, hyperglycemia, statins, bisphosphonates. So the time to benefit page is trying to make the mortality indexes link more closely to the time to benefit.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy. The post Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Look at the way they talk to the public, referral like HIV prep. The post Evidence-Based Messaging for Serious Illness Care: A Podcast with Tony Back and Marian Grant appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Look at the way they talk to the public.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. The post Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? The post Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from. So the problem of, hey, look at us, we promise we’ll be helpful.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It’s that first place that you start where it may not be the AAAs job, but we’ve organized where they have to have the partnerships and they know who the players are and they know who to make a referral to. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. I think most states have them.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Get the hospice referral. appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. So you need to do them in order. And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? We want to get the DNR, right?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. The post Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Eric 39:21 Again, thinking about, like, basic approaches to these really common problems up to date, certainly out there, referrals. The post Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Joe: Well, the proposed rule changes would’ve included, for example, that you have to have a face-to-face encounter with a patient in order to prescribe over telemedicine, or you have to have received a referral from someone who did have a face-to-face, and they also would’ve had to be DEA certified. What state are they in?

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73