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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.

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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) disproportionately impacts persons with substance use and mental health disorders within the United States. Intervention: Patient navigation program to specialist treatment from primary care with additional referral to behavioral health services. were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed.

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Raynaud's Phenomenon

Vascular Physician

How is Raynaud's Phenomenon diagnosed? Educating patients on the link between emotional stress and Raynaud's phenomenon is important and attention to mental health disorders should be considered. Evaluation begins with three screening questions: Are your fingers or toes unusually sensitive to cold?

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Leveraging U=U Interventions for Black Women With HIV

Physician's Weekly

The Southern US accounts for more than half of all new HIV diagnoses, and in Georgia, where I practice, new HIV diagnosis rates in 2022 were seven times higher among Black women than White women and two times higher than among White men. What are some strategies for integrating mental health support?

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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.

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

GeriPal

If somebody has cancer and they’re recently diagnosed, somebody has cancer and they’re undergoing active treatment, somebody has cancer and they’re in early remission, now they’re a year or two years, three years, four years out and they still have pain. Jessie: Yes. And then, looking at- Eric: Wow. So, one out of 10?

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Stupid theory.