Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Geriatrics, UCSF
Internal Medicine
Dr. Eric W. Widera, MD
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Eric W. Widera, MD works in the field of Internal Medicine. He researched medicine at University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is a one of the best medicals schools. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is ranked 3/3 in Research/PrimaryCare. Eric Widera is a published physician as well. He has 19 publications published. The latest was: Variability in Hospice Care at the Very End of Life.
Publications
- Usefulness and effect of online prognostic calculators.
- Feeding Tube Placement in Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Teachable Moment.
- The hospice referral.
- Teaching serious illness communication through an innovative workshop.
- Developing Entrustable Professional Activities as the Basis for Assessment of Competence in an Internal Medicine Residency: A Feasibility Study.
- Predicting 10-year mortality for older adults.
- Managing grief and depression at the end of life.
- Prognostic indices for older adults: a systematic review.
- Approaching Patients and Family Members Who Hope for a Miracle.
- Fulfilling Our Obligation to the Caregiver: It's Time for Action: Comment on 'Translation of a Dementia Caregiver Support Program in a Health Care System--REACH VA'.
- Finances in the older patient with cognitive impairment: "He didn't want me to take over".
- The epidemiology of pain during the last 2 years of life.
- Presenteeism: a public health hazard.
- Hospitalization as an opportunity to integrate palliative care in heart failure management.
- Pulmonary artery sarcoma misdiagnosed as chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
- Nausea and other nonpain symptoms in long-term care.
- Nephrotic origin hyperlipidemia, relative reduction of vitamin E level and subsequent oxidative stress may promote atherosclerosis.
- Variability in Hospice Care at the Very End of Life.
Schools
University of California At San Francisco
Doctors Specialties
- Geriatric Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Education
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine -
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Hospital
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UCSF Medical Center -
San Francisco VA Medical Center
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