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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

Context: Individuals with complex conditions—those with multiple physical, mental, or behavioral health conditions--require numerous health and social services that are not effectively co-delivered by the current healthcare system. This study also provides the first formal evaluation of the KHH program.

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Sleep Disorders: Improving Rest For Better Overall Health

Center for Family Medicine

Sleep is essential for physical and mental well-being. Sleep apnea leads to poor sleep quality and potential health hazards like cardiovascular disease. Stress, alcohol use, caffeine, mental health challenges, or unhealthy work hours are typical risk factors.

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Recognizing and Preventing SIBO: Your Comprehensive Guide

AMMD

This is why many people fail to get a diagnosis. 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. If you’re concerned this may be the cause for you, work with a physical therapist.

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You don’t need labs to medically clear a psych patient

PEMBlog

In fact, some Emergency Departments note that as many as one tenth of their patient volume is mental health. They carry existing diagnoses and are followed by outpatient mental health providers. Pediatric behavior and mental health is an epidemic, and one that is likely to get even worse.

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Telemedicine and the Prescribing of Controlled Substances After the End of The Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency: DEA Announces Two Significant Proposed Rules: Read the Summary Below, But Learn All the Details and More at HPM’s Webinar on March 23, 2023 (Details Forthcoming….)

FDA Law Blog

The rule would permit a practitioner using a telemedicine encounter to prescribe controlled substances without an in-person visit under various situations involving both an audio-visual telehealth evaluation, or an in-person evaluation performed by a “referring” provider. Proposed practitioner recordkeeping obligations.

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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

Nevertheless, PG doctors have to work 80 to 100 hours a week without any holidays and this tiring schedule does affect their physical and mental health. This may result in errors in the diagnosis of the patient whom the doctor was examining initially. This will add to the burden of an already stretched system.

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Corona Together

StorytellERdoc

Being an ER physician facing this dilemma on the front lines of a large emergency and trauma center, I am also bearing witness to the more daunting picture of this dilemma--the mental and physical effects Covid-19 is having on our patients as well as on all of us. Don't bog down our front-line medical providers with mild symptoms.

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