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Hypoglycemia in Hospice: A Podcast with Laura Petrillo
Published 7 years, 10 months ago
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For this weeks podcast, we talk with Laura Petrillo, lead author of a recent paper published in JAMA IM titled "Hypoglycemia in Hospice Patients With Type 2 Diabetes in a National Sample of Nursing Homes". Laura is a palliative care physician and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Laura's finding should serve as a wakeup call for anyone caring for individuals on hospice living in nursing homes. They found that 1 in 9 nursing home patients with type 2 diabetes experienced hypoglycemia. So take a listen an tell us what you think in the comment section on this GeriPal post.