article thumbnail

Risk Factors for Coercion in Open Psychiatric Inpatient Wards

Physician's Weekly

Diagnoses of organic (IRR 13.43 [13.38, 13.48], P < 0.001), psychotic (IRR 1.79 [1.79, 1.79], P < 0.001), or bipolar disorders (IRR 2.17 [2.16, 2.17], P < 0.001) were also associated with higher coercion risk.

article thumbnail

Recognizing and Preventing SIBO: Your Comprehensive Guide

AMMD

In this article, I’m going to help guide you through signs, symptoms, and ways to test for SIBO. Non-Digestive Symptoms You’ve probably heard that gut health affects mental health. The same can be said about gut health and energy levels, skin, and metabolism. I’m not alone, either. This is where testing comes in.

IT 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. In particular, mental health integration and issues in pain and in palliative care. So how we screen for mental health distress is really important. Des, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: Yeah.

article thumbnail

What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

I enjoy seeing patients for all kinds of visits as well – mental health, physicals, GYN concerns, coughs/colds, etc. I cannot tell you the number of times that I have seen a patient and discovered additional diagnoses after they had been to urgent care. In fact, I enjoy patients who are engaged in their care and ask questions.

article thumbnail

Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. Jessie: Yes. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Oh, you were?

Illness 136
article thumbnail

Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

And if you want to learn more about buprenorphine from these amazing palliative care clinicians and others, check out of some of these articles: Learn more about caring for those with substance use disorder: . Article on buprenorphine in the elderly. I always thought this article came out 2011. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

Illness 102
article thumbnail

Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

He studies the mental health system in the ways in which it has failed children and adolescents, and he writes about his experience with cancer in a blog, the Billgardner.substack.com, Billgardner, one word. I just love her conclusion because what she realizes is when you’re first diagnosed… This is research.

Illness 128