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"Walking this line:" Primary Care Practice experiences with workforce strain since the COVID-19 pandemic [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: Eighteen primary care practices and systems across the United States (US) diverse in size, location, composition, and 2019-2020 revenue change. As government relief funds ended, leaders noted needing to cut back on workforce strategies implemented during the pandemic. Instrument: Semi-structured interview guide.

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What to Expect When you are Expecting…a Government Shutdown

FDA Law Blog

The answers below are based on my experience as a reviewer and compliance officer at FDA during the 5-week 2018/2019 government shutdown. Examples: A manager has three approval letters to review and a binder of lot release papers. Once those reviews are complete, the manager is furloughed for the rest of the day and goes home.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 3: Pharmacologic management of agitated children

PEMBlog

When we think of managing agitated patients we think of medicines – but that shouldn’t be our first option. This podcast episode hosted by Brad Sobolewski ( @PEMTweets ) and co-authored by Dennis Ren ( @DennisRenMD ) is all about age-appropriate pharmacologic management strategies for agitated children. Government. 2019.1.41344.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

Government. 2019 Jul 22;20(5):690-695. Alice Kuo and Ilene Claudius Podcast EIIC: Safe Control of the Agitated Patient Webinar Series with Dr. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award (U07MC37471) totaling $3M with 0 percent financed with nongovernmental sources. Pediatrics March 2023; 151 (3): e2022057383.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

PEMBlog

Government. Collaborative Care in the Identification and Management of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults. Pediatr Radiol 2019; 49:240. 2019 Mar;20(2):409-418. 2019 Mar;20(2):409-418. Epub 2019 Feb 19. 2019 May;20(3):537. 2019 Jul;20(4):688-689. West J Emerg Med. doi: 10.5811/westjem.2019.1.41344.

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News on FDA’s Quality Management Maturity Program-Maturity to Continually Improve and to not be Reactive

FDA Law Blog

Brevig, Senior Regulatory Device and Biologics Expert — In January 2023, FDA published a paper summarizing its lessons learned from two pilot Quality Management Maturity (QMM) Pilot Programs, such as best practices for conducting QMM assessments and developing the QMM scoring system. By Holly N.

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Approaches for Quelling Stigma related to COVID-19

BMJ

9 and Yang 10 suggested that community approaches for managing stigmatization related to infectious disease must also include an individual aspect, primarily achieved through dissemination of useful and authentic information. Psychological health during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic outbreak. Scholars such as Wen et al.