Geriatric Medicine

ACP Pain Management 5 – Non-Opioid Pharmacotherapy

Chronic pain affects over 50 million people in the US and 1.5 billion world-wide. This is the fifth of a series of 9 interactive modules on Pain Management; 7 didactic modules and 2 modules of case studies. Using current evidence-based…

ACP Pain Management 4: Non-Pharmacologic Therapies

Chronic pain affects over 50 million people in the US and 1.5 billion world-wide. This is the fourth of a series of 9 interactive modules on Pain Management; 7 didactic modules and 2 modules of case studies. Using current evidence-based…

ACP Pain Management 3: Pain Management Principles

Chronic pain affects over 50 million people in the US and 1.5 billion world-wide. This is the third of a series of 9 interactive modules on Pain Management; 7 didactic modules and 2 modules of case studies. Using current evidence-based…

ACP Pain Management 2: Pain Assessment

Chronic pain affects over 50 million people in the US and 1.5 billion world-wide. This is the second of a series of 9 interactive modules on Pain Management; 7 didactic modules and 2 modules of case studies. Using current evidence-based…

ACP Pain Management 1: Pain Fundamentals

Chronic pain affects over 50 million people in the US and 1.5 billion world-wide. This is the first of a series of 9 interactive modules on Pain Management; 7 didactic modules and 2 modules of case studies. Using current evidence-based…

Cancer Care: What’s Fixable Now

Cancer care in the US has been described as a system in crisis, failing in its mission to be patient-centered, accessible, coordinated, and evidence-based. While many of the causes of this crisis are systemic, expensive to fix, and not easily…

Patient Priorities Care – Helping Your Patients Identify their Health Priorities

In 2014, clinicians, patients, caregivers, health system leaders, payers, and funders from across the country came together to identify the key problems facing older adults with multiple chronic conditions. Their charge was to propose feasible and effective strategies for improving…

Statins: What to Recommend When Guidelines Conflict?

More than 21% of US adults take lipid-lowering statin medications; however, the CDC states that many more people should be doing so. But who is eligible? The guidelines of the USPSTF, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association and the…

Hip Fracture: Enhancing Patient Recovery

About 340,000 Americans suffer hip fractures due to falls every year. For many elderly patients, a hip fracture signals the beginning of the end, a decline ending in death within the following year. In the past, hip fractures have been…