Individual, Nurse Practitioner, Patients and Screening

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

What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

In Arizona’s climate, skin cancer screenings are particularly important given our high sun exposure. For Women Women require specific preventive services throughout their lives, including breast cancer screenings, cervical cancer screenings, osteoporosis testing, and prenatal care during pregnancy.

Preventive Care

Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening

Using a typology to understand and address primary care administrative workload in Atlantic Canada [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Study Design & Analysis We used a screening questionnaire to purposively select interview participants.

Primary Care

Primary Care Management Nurse Practitioner Family Physician

Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. Since 2020, the starting ages for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer screening were lowered to 40, 50, and 45 years, respectively.

Primary Care

Primary Care Family Physician Preventive Care Preventative Care

Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF.

IT

IT Screening Hospital Clinic

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

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. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah.

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT

CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CDC received some 5,500 comments from patients, caregivers, clinicians and interested organizations to the proposed guideline update it issued in February. An important part of the 2022 Guideline includes CDC’s pronouncement that some laws, regulations and policies have misapplied the 2016 guidelines and likely contributed to patient harm.

Patients

Patients Patient-Centered ER Individual

RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. Important implications.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients

Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare

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

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? Alex 03:21 Beautiful, beautiful song.

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified

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

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. It is a screening? These studies are important. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions.

IT

IT Patient-Centered Family Families

Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Eric: And Alex, we got a full house today. Ruth: Sure.

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families

Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Family Families

How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

The temperature is just going to continue to rise and at some point thats going to lead to death," says Wood, who has worked as a nurse practitioner in the emergency room. However, we do not guarantee individual replies due to the high volume of messages. "Its like taking the batteries out of your thermostat.

Illness

Illness Engineering Medical Nurse Practitioner

What Is The Best Example Of Preventive Care?

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

These screening measures help identify conditions in their earliest stages. At Mesa Family Physicians, we follow the CDC-recommended immunization schedules for all age groups and work with patients to ensure they’re up-to-date on all recommended vaccines.

Preventive Care

Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening

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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]

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Using a typology to understand and address primary care administrative workload in Atlantic Canada [Practice management and organization]

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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