Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

This unique set of experiences allows patients to reflect in a way that many other patients and their healthcare professionals cannot. Dr. Barnes: Although we utilized a rigorous methodology in this initial study, these remain the experiences of patients treated at one multidisciplinary pouch clinic and IBD center.

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FDA Law

JULY 7, 2022

The first was to develop labeling beyond the DFL and the second was to propose “additional conditions that a consumer must fulfill” with the examples self-selection tests utilizing a mobile app or a requirement for the consumer to affirm they have watched a video or read text about use of the drug.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And nurses and other healthcare practitioners knew nothing about it. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

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. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Some of our healthcare systems are hard, and challenging, and I think that it’s time that we have a change. I think there’s maybe a little bit of debate as to when those turn from being just normal age related changes to then being something more, but it happens in many different areas of healthcare. Eric: Lovely.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 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

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. David: Right.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

When you think about leadership and we think about health care, we still live in a healthcare system that has a hierarchy. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system. And then there are the … We know that in academic medicine, academic healthcare scholarship is one of the ways that we lift up voices.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. 150 (54.3) p<0.001 Doctor 83 (65.9) 126 (45.7) 162 (58.7) 228 (82.6) 193 (69.9)

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Abby: This is absolutely a conversation tool and it’s a conversation starter, but then it documents the ability to document that conversation over time and potentially connect dots between care teams when you have this in the electronic healthcare record. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

They don’t have nearly the responsibilities that a certified nursing assistant has when thinking about utilities, groceries, rent, mortgage, all of that stuff on a monthly basis. We have on our steering committee, we have Lori Porter from NAHA, which is the National Association of Healthcare Assistance, and she’s been very active.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Alex 06:20 Can I what’s the healthcare equivalent to the Starbucks coffee? Inside or outside of healthcare? We didn’t make them communicate it, but we focused them on it, which makes them more likely to then utilize that information. Eric 06:19 Oh yeah. Eric 06:24 Yeah. Would you guess? That’s just absurd.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. We utilize the generous donations from our foundation to support the end-of-life doula program.

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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. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare. And as you’ve written in your work, there is a justified mistrust of the healthcare system and an ethic of struggle that needs to be appreciated.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Would it have changed potentially utilization rates like hospice utilization?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. They do the homework they talk about then with their doctor or their healthcare provider. We are going to have healthcare utilization data as well.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And then you have a problem with missing data always based on utilization patterns and trying to identify what that might look like. This is so important to patients, so important to their healthcare, so important to their quality of life. Hospitals should routinely collect functional information in the same way.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. ” The first healthcare provider said, “I said withdrawal of care. I think it was just sort of commentary that I had running in my head about what is the real utility of this radar? We feel like we deserve to be in palliative care jail.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

The post PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field.

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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. There’s also been some differences in things like staffing.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

And I actually think the cool thing about a needs-based approach would allow us to better utilize the service. How do we best utilize the power that we have in a really efficient way that allows us to reach more patients where they are and what they need. Kate: That’s right. We are a multi-interdisciplinary group.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Janet: And so we have this whole spectrum of buprenorphine at these different doses that we should be able to utilize but people can feel limited just because of this X waiver policy to not fully access and be able to offer all of the medications.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 21, 2023

Further, FDA has utilized a variety of strategies to call attention to safety issues through Dear Doctor letters or other forms of communication, even if directing changes to labeling is difficult.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So it’s, you know, nursing homes are part of the healthcare sector, but they’re also part of the social care sector in the same building. Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

And it’s a bit of a hokey title, but what I try and impress on readers there is that, the reflection that patients see of themselves, at least metaphorically in the eye of the healthcare provider, needs to be one that is affirming of patient dignity. I mean, we all give lip services saying, “Person-centered care is important.”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

There’s a Boguts case, a patient with anorexia who utilized medical aid and dying. The post Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Which is very quick, clearly labeled six months or less.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults. Really, to be a bridge between whether it’s a health plan on the healthcare side, Greg mentioned a hospital discharge, which is so common.

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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. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? Can someone describe for me what a stepped model is? Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on. That is correct.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And it was her conceptual, like incorporation of functional decline, some measure of functional decline along with a serious illness diagnosis that you’re utilizing here. Like if you had a magic wand, you had healthcare providers, like, one thing they. Rebecca 40:38 Up during our research meeting. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

But I think that as Ruth was saying, while the prior Jumpstart was quite effective at both increasing frequency of and quality of both care conversations in the outpatient space, it was just too labor-intensive to think about implementing widely across a healthcare system. Should it be decreased utilization, decreased use of CPR?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I’m worried about all of us as healthcare workers, but particularly… And when I say particularly those in the hospital, because they are just tired. If they had a healthcare agent, then this would be better, right? They’re looking at difficult outcomes, utilization outcomes, right? Rachelle: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? We have all of these models that are out there that have proven benefits for patients, for caregivers, and some of them for healthcare systems as far as saving money for, let’s say, Medicare. Why do we need to do more?

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FDA Law

JUNE 1, 2025

Getting back to manufacturer-sponsored DTC promotion, this was clearly a focus of OPDP enforcement in 2024: four out of the five Untitled Letters issued dealt with DTC promotion and three of these letters specifically targeted advertising that utilized a celebrity. Healthier populations are more productive.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. ” Why don’t we say, “All of healthcare is dangerous.” I think at least we like to think of ourselves as ahead of the curve. Now I think it should be what is the very best for our patients.

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