Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The pooled cohort equations (used in the ASCVD risk calculator) are race-stratified equations that estimate an individual’s ten-year risk of ASCVD. Study design: Qualitative descriptive study conducted using ten 45-minute semi-structured interviews with primary care physicians in North Carolina between March and April 2022.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Internal Medicine Family Medicine DO 130

Vida Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

When it comes to your health, it is important that you have all the information you need to take the best care of yourself. Unfortunately, there is also a history of paternalism and abuse in medicine, especially of individuals of color or from disadvantaged backgrounds, and this has created a lot of mistrust of medical professionals.

Treatment Plan 52

Treatment Plan Insurance Primary Care Physician Primary Care 52

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! The healthcare system in the US is not well-designed for the kind of care that is required to get to the bottom of these symptoms.

Patients 52

Patients Primary Care Appointment Diagnose 52

Priority Physicians

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Both THC and alcohol come with risks and perceived rewards, depending on the individual. An Individual Decision Besides considering THC’s illegal status in Indiana, the choice to use is an individual one. Direct primary care aims to improve your life until there’s no need to numb it! THC overdose is possible.

Board-Certified 52

Board-Certified Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Individual 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A Mobile Harm Reduction Team (MHR) partnered with public health bureau to develop low-barrier primary care addiction medicine in a trusted location, prioritizing relationship-centered care to promote patient engagement. Setting or Dataset: New primary care addiction medicine site.

Relationship 130

Relationship Clinical Practice Clinic Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests George Kuchel & Alison Huang have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I don’t see those perspectives as incompatible.

IT 120

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Interpersonal communication is a critical dimension of primary care. None of the existing reviews examine primary care-specific interpersonal communication for patients living with chronic conditions. Results: From 7579 identified deduped studies, we included 12 with 22266 participants.

Chronic Condition 130

Chronic Condition Family Physician Families Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While preventable, many fail to receive timely treatment in primary care, leading the most vulnerable to accumulate complications. Results: We included 49,843 individuals in model 1. Context: Complications contribute to significant type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) morbidity.

Complication 130

Complication Diabetes Primary Care Utilities 130

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

But now that at least at the University of Pennsylvania, the radiation oncology department is sort of well integrated into the cancer center here, and we have a really strong relationship with the palliative care team and even the internal medicine residents whom we give talks to. Eric 09:13 Do you ever get it from a hospice agency?

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Yet, moderate-volume exercise lowers plaque volumes in both sexes compared with nonathletes, indicating sex-specific relationships between exercise dose and subclinical atherosclerosis. We split the data by sex because risk factors can affect male and female individuals differently. Prevention starts with information.

Individual 72

Individual Relationship Patient-Centered IT 72

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

Individual 81

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker.

IT 66

IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 66

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. They may not think to ask or provide that information. Sometimes it’s unskilled things.

Community 114

Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think. Alex: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

IT 102

IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: How about you, David?

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

I care deeply about each and every one of my patients, and I do not want a difference in opinion to create a wedge in our relationship. A patient must have the autonomy to choose whether in their individual situation, the potential benefits outweigh the potential harms.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Family Families Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

What is unique about the practice of palliative care for people experiencing homelessness? We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

Families 112

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

And that’s another huge source of data and that’s the data that generally informs the USPSTF and other guidelines. And that’s why I want women to have an informed decision. And so we did learn in that study that even… Here we were trying to take the burden off primary care doctors. Mara: Exactly.

Screening 99

Screening PCP PCP IT 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

So what is the role of individuals like geriatricians in prescribing amyloid antibodies and caring for individuals who are receiving them? And I do think geriatricians need to as individuals make that decision, largely based on their comfort with the diagnostics and the specifics of the therapeutics.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

So the intention of the AGS Beers Criteria is to provide information primarily to clinicians, although to other audience as well, but medications that we consider to be potentially inappropriate in older adults. I feel like geriatricians have a, maybe it’s more of a hate/hate relationship with NSAIDs right now. Mike: Thank you.

Medical 97

Medical IT Patients Clinic 97

BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Family physicians and family health workers, considered reliable sources of vaccine information, have a unique position where individuals in rural and urban areas can access frequently, uninterruptedly, cheaply, and easily [2]. Individuals over 65 years of age at home Yes 23 (65.7) 150 (54.3) p<0.001 Doctor 83 (65.9)

Vaccination 40

Vaccination Healthcare Professional Healthcare Primary Care 40

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Almost all of them have hospice contracts.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have. So we did have a clinical decision support pop up that said, hey, this patient has serious illness, why don’t you go have a goals of care discussion? That is safe.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. The following graph shows the striking difference in premature mortality between countries with weak or strong primary care: 2. Here are the key results.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Families Family GP 130

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Eric 06:58 It could be CPR in an individual with metastatic cancer in the icu. And so often, like, if you have a good relationship with them and you can understand what that root is, there’s so many other ways to come at it and they’re willing to back away. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79