Mental Health Archives - Page 16 of 23

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Opioid use disorder up in sepsis hospitalizations
February 23, 2020
ORLANDO – “While we don’t necessarily screen every sepsis patient for endocarditis, if it’s an opioid use disorder patient – particularly one with a bloodstream infection – then that’s almost certainly something you should be doing.”
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CDC: Opioid prescribing and use rates down since 2010
January 31, 2020
Encouragement from analysis involving 11 states is offset by increase in opioid-attributable deaths.
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Quick Byte: EHRs and clinician wellness
January 29, 2020
Little attention has been paid to the relationship between physicians’ well-being and the volume of in-basket messages they receive.
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EVALI update warns of chemicals in vaping products
January 24, 2020
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show 82% of EVALI patients reported using a vaping product containing THC.
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Suicide rate higher than average for female clinicians
January 23, 2020
Male health care practitioners are less likely than all working-age men to die by suicide.
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Cognitive screening of older physicians: What’s fair?
January 17, 2020
A new report leads to questions about how to standardize the process rather than have a piecemeal institutional approach and whether to focus less on tests scores and more on clinical performance.
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ACGME deepening its commitment to physician well-being, leader says
November 27, 2019
NEW ORLEANS – Positive social relationships with others are crucial to joy and well-being in the practice of medicine, Dr. Brigham said.
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Fentanyl-related deaths show strong regional pattern
November 12, 2019
Overdose death rates for cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl are high in the East and low in the West.
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NAM offers recommendations to fight clinician burnout
October 24, 2019
A National Academy of Medicine report provides a roadmap for both broad and targeted efforts to address clinician burnout.
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Certain diabetes drugs may thwart dementia
October 21, 2019
COPENHAGEN – Intriguing findings from a Danish national registry study.