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Three Practices, Three Stories: best practices and unique approaches to substance use screening in rural primary care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care (PC) practices that implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) can identify, reduce, and prevent problematic alcohol use that otherwise could go undetected. While screening and brief counseling in PC is considered best practice, it is not standard practice.

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Nurse Practitioner Referral

Substance Use Disorder Screening in Adolescent Patients in Primary Care: Findings, Challenges, Lessons Learned [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

SUD screening is not universally done in primary care (PC). In our institution, screenings are completed for patients ≥15 years during well visits; those not presenting for well visits and under 15 may represent missed opportunities. A score ≥2 constitutes a positive screen for possible substance misuse.

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Referral Wellness Visit

A Call for Engagement Outside of the Exam Room

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Physicians can often literally meet patients where they are and address the broader social determinants of health, such as housing, education, and income, which significantly impact patient well-being and illness prevention. This can be done by maintaining a directory of community resources and making referrals during patient visits.

Chronic Disease Management

Chronic Disease Management Community Chronic Disease Education

Vascular Ultrasound: What Is It and How Does It Work?

Vascular Physician

APRIL 22, 2024

Whether you are showing signs of a vascular concern, have been diagnosed with a disease, or are striving to prevent a vascular illness from occurring in the future, a vascular ultrasound can give your healthcare provider a clear image of how well blood is flowing to the organs and tissues throughout your body.

IT

IT Diagnose Specialization Healthcare

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

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. Eric: And Alex, we’re going to be talking about substance use disorder and serious illness and aging, with three amazing experts. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic

Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Today we talk with two psychologists who are deeply invested in addressing psychological aspects of care for people living with serious illness. That rings true to me. That’s a lot.

Mental Health

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening

How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Well, so I guess it depends on what you say screening. That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes.

Primary Care

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT

Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. 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.

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement. We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool.

Families

Families IT Family Diagnosis

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

It is a screening? And so then it would be nice to have those other than the chaplains, be aware of the spiritual component and then just ask some basic screening questions. And the screening questions would just allow you to know that. Who does the assessments, who does screening? I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY.

IT

IT Patient-Centered Families Family

Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Fox gives patients hope there may be a place that illness doesn’t touch Depression is a Liar Why is Being a Patient Such a Difficult Pill to Swallow Better Patient Care Calls for a ‘Platinum Rule’ to Replace the Golden One. And that includes what we call illness-related concerns, the things that are directly mediated by the illness itself.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness

New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. We know that a lot of times with cancer screening, you don’t actually get benefits right away and it can cause potential harms right away.

IT

IT Clinic Screening Patients

Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Juliet and Rachelle are two of the authors of a recent JAMA viewpoint titled “Shifting to Serious Illness Communication.” . Also see the image below from Alex’s editorial in JAGS , a Venn diagram of advance care planning and serious illness communication. Shifting to Serious Illness Communication. Transcript. What is it?

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Eric: We’re going to be talking about telemedicine for those who have serious illness, and this came out of a recent publication Carly did in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Telemedicine Helps People in Pain, Don’t Take That Away. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness.

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Three Practices, Three Stories: best practices and unique approaches to substance use screening in rural primary care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Substance Use Disorder Screening in Adolescent Patients in Primary Care: Findings, Challenges, Lessons Learned [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

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A Call for Engagement Outside of the Exam Room

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

Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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