Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

We have the chance to support each other by breaking the stigma, utilizing local and federal resources, and better recognizing the signs and symptoms. Keep in mind that mental and physical health are linked, as anxiety, for example, can show itself through physical attacks. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. What is Mental Health?

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

At its core, the technology utilizes sophisticated speech recognition to transcribe a conversation in the exam room or at the bedside. These systems also provide a consistent note structure, which can improve the overall readability and utility of patient records. Healthcare (Basel). Mayo Clin Proc. 2022;97(7):1307-1315.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Associated with missed diagnoses , false reassurance of constipation, more frequent admissions into the hospital, longer hospital stays, higher healthcare costs, and unnecessary radiation exposure. Lack of utility of abdominal x-rays in the evaluation of children with constipation: Comparison of different scoring methods.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Race, racism, and racial inequality have tangible impacts on people’s livelihoods, much less their experiences in the healthcare system. These factors may have impacted their diet, physical activity, and medications, thus impacting their creatinine levels and the inputs that we use for GFR. eGFR equation-building is a complex science.

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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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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Clinical utility of screening laboratory tests in pediatric psychiatric patients presenting to the emergency department for medical clearance. Routine laboratory testing does not need to be performed. Systematic change so that routine laboratory testing is not required by facilities accepting patients for inpatient psychiatric treatment.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The lack of utility of laboratory testing in children with an unprovoked generalized seizure, or a simple febrile seizure is supported by several observational studies. A careful history and physical examination are ways that we as providers can “see what’s going on inside the head.”

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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 Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. Yannis Valtis, Ebi Okah, and Carine Davila, about research in their respective fields. Calac, Victor A.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. They were stunned by the number of calls for lift assistance for older adults who had fallen. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Carmen: Thank you.

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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. Set it and forget it!

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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. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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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 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

Tom: So we did this study because patients who go through the stem cell transplant process face a lot of misery in terms of physical symptoms, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and even a risk of PTSD afterwards, sort of like a medical trauma, you might think of it. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field.

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FDA Law

JULY 9, 2024

geographic location, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical and mental disabilities, pregnancy status, lactation status, and co-morbidity) may impact outcomes. FDA encourages sponsors to consult patients and healthcare providers to assist in developing such strategies.

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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. Or there’s physical symptom needs. Kate: That’s right.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. 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.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It’s one of the core things that we think about palliative care is you got the physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms. There’s a Boguts case, a patient with anorexia who utilized medical aid and dying. When you think about the word palliative psychiatry, is that what we’re talking about?

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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. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. That is correct.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? 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. And the government can do something about that?!?

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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. And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. They were slightly mischaracterized. Rachelle: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? As you know the healthcare system right now, we struggle.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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