April 29, 2025
Resource Type
Augmenting Nurse Support and EHR Integration for the Pragmatic Trial of the TabCAT Brain Health Assessment
April 2025 – In Grand Rounds 55, Katherine Possin, PhD, discusses "Augmenting Nurse Support and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Integration for the Pragmatic Trial of the TabCAT Brain Health Assessment (TabCAT-BHA)." TabCAT-BHA is a software platform owned by UCSF to provide diagnosis in MCI and dementia.
Speakers
Katherine Possin, PhD
John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation Endowed Professorship
Professor in Residence
Department of Neurology
UCSF Memory and Aging Center
Learning Objectives
- Learn about the DetectCID Consotrium and TabCAT-Brain Health Assessment
- Understand implementation of TabCAT-BHA as part of a diagnostic care pathway at UCSF primary care (DetectCID-1) and Kaiser Permanente Southern California primary care (DetectCID-2)
- Understand scaling TabCAT-BHA & Brain Health Consultation
5-Cog Paradigm to Improve Detection of Cognitive Impairment in Primary Care: Pragmatic Clinical Trial
March 2025 - In Grand Rounds 54, Malaz Boustani, MD, MPH, discusses transforming brain health with early detection of cognitive problems in the primary care setting using the 5-cog paradigm.
Speakers
Malaz Boustani, MD, MPH
Richard M. Fairbanks Professor of Aging Research,
Indiana University School of Medicine
Research Scientist,
Indiana University Center for Aging Research
Learning Objectives
- Why early detection of cognitive problems in primary care
- Need versus demand
- 0 minutes $1 dollar strategies
- Review 5 COG 1.0 results
- Overview of 5 COG 2.0 study design and flow
- Current status of the 5 Cog 2.0 study
- Agile science and its derivatives
IMPACT community members seek improvements in post-acute care in SNFs
IMPACT community members, Joan Carpenter, PhD, CRNP, Nancy Hodgson, PhD, RN, and Laura Hanson, MD, MPH share the results of their recent pilot pragmatic trial which was supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number K23NR017663 and the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation, New York.
The trial explores the feasibility of implementing a palliative care intervention during post-acute care to improve outcomes and reduce the need for rehospitalizations.
The two-group, multisite feasibility pilot pragmatic clinical trial, which was conducted at 12 SNFs co-located in continuing care retirement communities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States, evaluated the feasibility of implementing the primary palliative care in post-acute care (PPC-PAC) intervention in the post-acute care skilled nursing facility (SNF) setting.
Implementation of the PPC-PAC intervention proved feasible and acceptable among older adults and clinicians. Future research is needed to focus on testing the effectiveness of PPC-PAC and explore strategies for optimal intervention implementation and SNF staff engagement.
Read the full article here.
