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Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Diabetes management (DM) for patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) can be hindered by non-medical, health-related social needs. Some providers felt that even with medication assistance programs and utilizing less expensive medications, medications and testing supplies remain a financial burden to their diabetic patients.

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

Yes, and so thinking about these imaging modalities, I keep coming back to the fact that most of the time when we’re ordering one, it’s because we’re thinking about what’s next from a management standpoint for the patient. And so we routinely do outreach with our community providers.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. I didn’t really know, similar to what Evie was talking about, how to provide any anticipatory guidance or to know what to expect in residency. Evie, welcome to GeriPal. Evie 00:41 Thank you.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. I think, as providers, we don’t get to see that.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources. Eric 10:25 Great.

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

GeriPal

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t.

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

GeriPal

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. And Katie, as an advanced practice provider, is much better than I am at explaining how this works.

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