November 5, 2018
Physician visits and recognition of residents’ terminal phase in long-term care facilities
https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(18)30471-7/fulltextObjectives: To describe the relation between physician visits and physicians’ recognition of a resident’s terminal phase in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in Belgium, England, Finland, Italy, […]
November 5, 2018
Rethinking advance care planning: a podcast with Rebecca Sudore
https://www.geripal.org/2018/11/rethinking-advance-care-planning.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Geripal+(GeriPal)On this weeks podcast, we invited Rebecca Sudore to talk about the results of her PREPARE randomized trial that was published in JAMA Internal Medicine this week. […]
October 31, 2018
Incorrect survival predication ups aggressive end-of-life care
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/903800SAN ANTONIO — An inability to accurately predict how long patients with metastatic lung cancer have left to live increases the likelihood of aggressive, poor-quality end-of-life […]
October 31, 2018
How do we serve the very sick, very frail and very old? (podcast)
https://www.geripal.org/2018/10/how-do-we-serve-very-sick-very-frail.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Geripal+(GeriPal)In this week’s GeriPal podcast we talk with Guy Micco, MD, a longtime bioethicists, internist, hospice physician, teacher in the UC Berkeley and UCSF Joint Medical Program, […]