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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. A difference-in-differences (DID) approach was used to compare outcomes in two groups: Medicaid beneficiaries assigned to KHH and those who were not.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Economic forces, technological demands, and widespread intergenerational physician mental health wounds have culminated in a highly dysfunctional and toxic health care system in which we find ourselves in daily forced betrayal of our deepest values. Secondary prevention reduces impact of established illness (antidepressants).

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 2: Non-pharmacologic management of agitated children

PEMBlog

2012 Jan;109(3):27-32. 2012 Feb;13(1):35-40. We have developed a series of pain focused episodes. Deaths due to physical restraint. Dtsch Arztebl Int. PMC3272587. Coburn VA, Mycyk MB. Physical and chemical restraints. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2009 Nov;27(4):655-67, ix. doi: 10.1016/j.emc.2009.07.003. 2009.07.003. PMID: 19932399.