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Ambulatory Behavioral Health Referral Patterns in the Setting of Chronic Medical Conditions [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Patients 18 years or older with a BH referral with or without at least 1 chronic condition referred from any of 4 PC sites with integrated BH in the UCHealth System from January 2020 through present. Of those patients with a BH referral and a chronic condition, hypertension was the most common (n= 2,053, 51%).

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

I’m just thinking we all went through a major traumatic event in 2020 and the subsequent years. It was difficult life experiences like growing up in a family where you were hurt or where there was mental illness or drug addiction, alcohol issues, witnessing violence, those things can affect our health.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

We sought to analyse how prescribing trends have changed over time, utilising a dataset containing all prescriptions signed and dispensed in the UK by primary care facilities from January 2014 to November 2020. Despite the spike in prescribing of insulins, oral antidiabetic medications were not similarly affected.