Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

referral networks, technology infrastructure) to drive the transformation needed to facilitate early detection for cognitive impairment in primary care. Conclusions To meet pressing needs for ADRD diagnosis and management, early detection of cognitive issues in primary care settings is needed.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Healthcare Finance 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Physicians may participate in more traditional community engagement venues such as community health fairs or organizing screenings, providing educational workshops on nutrition exercise and disease prevention or helping facilitate small group chronic disease management.

Chronic Disease Management 52

Chronic Disease Management Community Chronic Disease Education 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Adults with T2D often face unmet social needs, such as food insecurity, compounding the challenges associated with their engagement in disease management interventions. Population Studied: Adults (≥18 years) who receive care at an affiliated clinic, screen positive for food insecurity, have a T2D diagnosis, and an A1c level > 7.5%.

Diabetes 130

Diabetes Clinic Transportation Internal Medicine 130

The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

The clinic offers referrals to specialists, conducts free cancer screenings, provides medication vouchers and engages in extensive public health education efforts. His dedication to this cause should serve as an inspiration to the entire medical community.” In July 2024, The Physicians Foundation also honored E. Mirna Mohanraj, M.D. ,

Primary Care 40

Primary Care Community Chronic Disease Management Education 40

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

MAY 24, 2022

I was suprised he had managed for so long. Sister N pointed to the screen with a blood pressure reading of 180/110. But I was glad no one needed referral. The phone rang, a referral from a clinic so I left to take the call. Sister N was still trying to make sense of the situation and came to no sensible conclusion.

Referral 52

Referral Community Patients Specialization 52

Edge Family Medicine

APRIL 10, 2025

Establishing a long-term relationship with a primary care provider can make a profound difference in how effectively your health is managed over time. From lab work to screenings, consistent care means catching problems before they escalate. Coordinated Specialist Referrals Your PCP is your guide through the larger healthcare system.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Relationship PCP PCP 130

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. Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Katie: Yeah.

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms?

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

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.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant? There’s really no added extra resource or time that the coordinators really need to put to doing the screening, themselves.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Is there a screening tool that we can use, or just questions that you ask older adults around driving safety? We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool. ” So a lot of times it’s a referral back to their primary care, to a specialist-. “How are things going?”

IT 102

IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Same thing with kind of medication management. So one of the big pieces of this is that idea of a referral at a second time when they’re less overwhelmed and stressed to figure out what happened. In addition to the grab bars, we have also helped train the EMS professionals in different lenses about screening.

Community 116

Community Transportation IT PCP 116

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? And the screening questions would just allow you to know that. Who does the assessments, who does screening? This is Eric Widera.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. We published a nice piece, I think it was in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. And so I was hardwired to be thinking and looking at the world in terms of a DSM kind of lens.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. It improves symptom management. Ruth: We wanted to control for those regional factors.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Get the hospice referral. So I’m just going to share on my screen. Juliet: And so the question is like, how do we… There are these massive shifts because that’s not just about symptom management. So you need to do them in order. We want to get the DNR, right? But I’m just going to describe it for you.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the thought of a huge number of our patients who had really come to rely on being able to do their visits from home or from a place that was close to home and getting medications that they’ve really come to rely on for symptom management was just really kind of terrifying for us and for them. It may have come to a care manager.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73