Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 11, 2025

A recent article in the BMJ summarized a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on identification and management of gambling-related harms. People with gambling disorder are at increased risk for self-harm and suicide attempts.

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Management Referral Mental Health Community 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. In particular, mental health integration and issues in pain and in palliative care. So how we screen for mental health distress is really important. Des, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: Yeah. I’m dying.”

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

U=U is a very relevant and necessary message that should be part of any intervention that addresses ART adherence, viral load suppression, stigma, and mental health. What are some strategies for integrating mental health support? Why has U=U messaging not been used in interventions for Black women with HIV?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Katie: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Learn how to recognize and manage cases in the emergency department, ask the right questions to uncover inhalant use, and provide critical resources for prevention and support. Formulate effective strategies for identifying, managing, and preventing inhalant misuse in pediatric patients. References Perry H, Burns MM. Ganetsky M (ed).

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Complication Patient-Centered Management Patients 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. ” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change. And Mazie mentioned a few earlier. Mazie: Yes.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals. Naheed 15:56 2014.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health. We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. We also look at their mental health. If not, well, no, then they’d be denied.

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Family Families IT Community 132

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. And so if we look at things from either a managed care or a population health point of view, there is a huge impact of the distress that these family members face.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: And Susan?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. It’s not just about physical symptom management. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from. Stupid theory.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. Get the hospice referral. Juliet: And so the question is like, how do we… There are these massive shifts because that’s not just about symptom management. We want to get the DNR, right?

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