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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

What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

At Mesa Family Physicians, we believe that preventing illness is always better than treating it. As your trusted healthcare providers in Mesa, Arizona, we’re committed to helping you understand and access the preventive services that can keep you and your family healthy for years to come.

Preventive Care

Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening

Poverty screening implementation in a Canadian primary care clinic: acceptability and feasibility for patients and providers [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context While poverty is a risk factor for many chronic conditions, when it is recognized by care providers social screening can be used to positively impact patients’ health. Population Studied The study collected data from family physicians, nurse practitioners, and adult patients of the clinic.

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Provider Clinic

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

New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. Key findings include: 1.

Primary Care

Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner

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

Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Preventive Care Strategies That Save Lives in Mesa, Arizona Our experienced team of physicians and nurse practitioners at Mesa Family Physicians understands the unique health challenges facing our local community. In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to postpone medical appointments until something feels wrong.

Family Physician

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Alex 01:23 And we’re delighted to welcome DorAnne Donesky, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Queen of the Valley Medical center in Napa and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Nursing. Show me your scars.” Scars, really? I’ve been there. You probably have too. Michelle, welcome to GeriPal.

Screening

Screening IT Family Families

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. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Lyndsay DeGroot, who’s a nurse researcher and T32 postdoc at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Welcome to GeriPal, Lyndsay. Is it you Lyndsay?

Patient-Centered

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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. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic

How to get the preventive care you need!

Vida Family Medicine

JANUARY 4, 2022

This visit will include a review of your personal health history and family history so that your doctor can advise you on any screening tests that might be helpful for you. This could include screening for chronic diseases such as high blood pressure or diabetes, as well as screening for cancer. It is much easier (and cheaper!)

Preventive Care

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

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor. He died in 2024.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare

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

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

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Eric 03:25 So we have a lot to talk about, but I’m wondering if we can kind of take a big step back and just talk about the patient population that’s in nursing homes. And yet it’s been so hard to integrate palliative care into nursing homes. And it’s, I think, a very uplifting song. No problem.

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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. These studies are important. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. The theme is death.

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. Thanks, Alex.

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families

Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

On that podcast he and collaborators tested a combined patient and clinician facing communication priming intervention to promote goals of care conversations. Summary Transcript Summary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. Is 4% meaningful? I think it’s you, Bob.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients

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.” Malaz: I love it.

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. Officials warn of increased risks for the elderly, outdoor workers and those without AC. Your blood pressure may decrease." Its no longer functioning.

Illness

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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. Each plays a crucial role in a comprehensive approach to healthcare.

Preventive Care

Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening

What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

“Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. Seventeen of your patients are dead. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients.

Nurse Practitioner

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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]

What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

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Poverty screening implementation in a Canadian primary care clinic: acceptability and feasibility for patients and providers [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

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

Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

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

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

How to get the preventive care you need!

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

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

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

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

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

Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

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

How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

What Is The Best Example Of Preventive Care?

What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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