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What Does Behavioral Health Provider Practice in Primary Care Look Like? [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Integrated behavioral health (IBH) within primary care can help patients receive quality whole person care, however little is documented about the distribution and nature of time spent in key activities by integrated psychologists (i.e., Behavioral Health Providers, BHPs). Intervention: NA.

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What Does Team Function Look Like in Primary Care Integrated Behavioral Health? [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Up to 30% of patients seen in primary care have a co-occurring mental health or substance use issue. Population Studied: Medical providers and staff, and integrated behavioral health (IBH) psychologists and psychiatrists. Setting: Seven primary care practices in one Colorado USA health system.

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. In these complex and ever-changing environments, staffing challenges can quickly become a critical issue, impacting both patient care quality and operational efficiency.

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A video that teaches you how to talk about why we don’t need chest X-Rays in respiratory illnesses

PEMBlog

Choosing Wisely recommends that doctors and all medical providers have detailed conversations with patients and their families about why X-Rays are unlikely to give new information or provide any additional reassurance. They also expose young children to unnecessary radiation.

Illness 52
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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. But how to talk to patients about the risk and benefits when starting.

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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.

ER 100
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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. What Mattered Then, Now, and Always: Illness Narratives From Persons of Color. What’s in a story?