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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

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.

Preventative Care

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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]

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. Of screened patients, 94.4%

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Provider Clinic

Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

A 2024 analysis projected that by 2040 a shortage of 58,000 primary care clinicians (including nurse practitioners and physician assistants) will occur. Since 2020, the starting ages for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer screening were lowered to 40, 50, and 45 years, respectively. hours) allocated to preventive care.

Primary Care

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

The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Diminishing Workforce: Primary care clinician shortages worsen access to care The number of primary care clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs), decreased from 105.7 Key findings include: 1. health spending, with spending on Medicare falling to 3.4% and Medicaid to 4.3%.

Primary Care

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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.

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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

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Physician Support Groups (Sundays) | Peer Support for Doctors

Pamela Wible MD

MAY 22, 2025

Dr. Wible personally screens each participant to ensure they’re in the best group for their unique needs. We can help. (90 90 min) | $97/mo Register here Physician Survivors Dream Team (1 pm PT) An intimate group for doctors who’ve survived prison time, DEA raids, FBI investigations, PHP entrapment, and the trauma that comes with it.

Consulting

Consulting Medical Community Mental Health

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. Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic

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

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. MOC Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 Welcome to GeriPal, Lyndsay.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients

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!)

Preventative Care

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

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so as you think about the conditions that mean that you need care and support in a nursing home, it’s easy to see why many of us feel that palliative care, there are a lot of palliative care needs of nursing home residents just because of the nature of the conditions and reasons that got you there. Alex 02:09 Well, oops.

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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. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from? Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor. Alex 02:00 Ann Arbor, where I went to undergrad. Yael, welcome to GeriPal. Yael 02:12 Thank you. I’m excited. Eric 02:13 So we ve got a lot to cover today. He died in 2024.

Patient-Centered

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

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. It is a screening? It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. For inquiries or to apply, please contact gayle.kojimoto@ucsf.edu.

IT

IT Patient-Centered Families Family

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

FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Clinicians should review state Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (“PDMP”) data and toxicology screening to assess concurrent substance use disorder and overdose. By Larry K. Houck — On November 4th, CDC issued its revised guideline on prescribing opioids for pain as an expansion and update of its 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline.

Patients

Patients Patient-Centered ER Individual

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.

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

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Today we discuss a new paper in JAMA that tests a stripped down version of the clinician only facing intervention in a pragmatic randomized trial for older adults with serious illness and those 80+. They found a difference of 4% in documented goals of care discussions. Is 4% meaningful? I think it’s you, Bob. Alex: I love that song.

Patient-Centered

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

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. It requires a fight. It’s been going on for many decades now. Malaz: I love it.

Patient-Centered

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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. Cancer Screenings Cancer screenings stand out as especially important preventive health care examples due to their ability to detect cancer at pre-symptomatic stages when treatment is most successful.

Preventative Care

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

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Darrell: And so I’d set up in conjunction with our emergency room team and our hospitalist, a 24/7 screening process for, at the time, anybody who’s over 65. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Welcome back to GeriPal, Darrell. Darrell: Yes. Alex: From Cats?

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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

Physician Support Groups (Sundays) | Peer Support for Doctors

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

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

How to get the preventive care you need!

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

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

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

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

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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