News & Events: GeriPal

Alexander Smith, M.D., MPH  discusses trends and news ideas about surgical outcomes percolating among thought leaders in the field including Emily Finlayson, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Surgery and Health Policy at UCSF, in a post at GeriPal, a geriatrics and palliative care blog. A while back people realized that outcomes of surgery in older people were probably better than previously believed. This led to a widespread perception that we were being ageist by not being aggressive enough in offering surgery to older adults.  We started operating on more older adults. We identified [...]

Alexander Smith, M.D., MPH  discusses the exciting rollout of the EPrognosis website and  the decision to allow non-clinicians access to the site: Eprognosis is barely a week old, and we've already had over 500,000 pageviews (150,000 unique visitors).  For perspective, GeriPal is about 3 years old, and in that time we've had 400,000 pageviews.  We've had loads of press, including 6 stories in the New York Times about prognosis and eprognosis (Stories by Paula Span here, here, here, here, and here.  Story by Pauline Chen in today's paper here.  For a more complete list of media stories, see [...]