Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

Referral from the emergency department (ED) was linked to a lower risk (IRR 0.78 [0.77, 0.86], P < 0.001). Investigators concluded that multiple demographic and clinical factors increased coercion risk, highlighting the need for targeted assessment and further study of institutional influences.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Physicians may participate in more traditional community engagement venues such as community health fairs or organizing screenings, providing educational workshops on nutrition exercise and disease prevention or helping facilitate small group chronic disease management.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

She served on the National Institute of Mental Health Advisory Council and the APA’s Council for Research. Simon, MD, MPH , is Boston’s inaugural Chief Behavioral Health Officer, appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu.  Additionally, he consults with federal agencies on mental health system design and practices. Dr. 

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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.

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Look for a provider who supports a personalized approach , combining: Diet and exercise counseling Medication optimization Blood sugar monitoring Mental health considerations This shows a commitment to treating you, not just your blood sugar numbers. Firsthand referrals often lead to trusted and patient-focused providers.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 4, 2024

Chronic pain can affect all areas of our lives, including our relationships, sleep, and mental health, and it may even lead to a lower quality of life. A referral from a provider is not required but is recommended. The Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center is now accepting new patients.

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Physicians often neglect their own mental health for a variety of reasons, tuning in late to the need is just one factor. I like to encourage all physicians to have their own doctor that they could bring this up to for referral to therapist. It may be that you are needing professional help.

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Vascular Physician

JULY 11, 2021

Educating patients on the link between emotional stress and Raynaud's phenomenon is important and attention to mental health disorders should be considered. Avoid repeat trauma of fingertips, vasoconstrictive drugs, and encourage smoking cessation when appropriate.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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. Even though many medical colleges provide outpatient consultations to only referral cases, people come to the emergency department for minor ailments.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Alternatively, the requirement of a medical evaluation is satisfied when the prescribing practitioner receives a qualifying telemedicine referral for medication assisted treatment for OUD from a DEA-registered practitioner prior to issuing a prescription for controlled substances.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

U=U is a very relevant and necessary message that should be part of any intervention that addresses ART adherence, viral load suppression, stigma, and mental health. What are some strategies for integrating mental health support? Why has U=U messaging not been used in interventions for Black women with HIV?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 11, 2025

A recent article in the BMJ summarized a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on identification and management of gambling-related harms. People with gambling disorder are at increased risk for self-harm and suicide attempts.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. ” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change. And Mazie mentioned a few earlier. Mazie: Yes.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

For those already misusing inhalants, referral to a substance use disorder program is essential. Chronic complications often resolve with cessation, but addressing coexisting mental health problems and comorbidities such as depression and suicidality is equally important.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

When we take a mental health history, for example, I think we ask people, we do the PHQ, or whatever it is that we’re doing, asking people that mood. Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time?” Katie: Yeah. Jessie: Right.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? Sarah 07:12 It’s mostly our decompensated cirrhosis patients. So I was initially getting a lot of post transplant symptom stuff.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health. That’s a question too, Alex.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health. We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. We also look at their mental health. If not, well, no, then they’d be denied.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

And also, really like the way that you have identified different kinds of outcomes, spiritual wellbeing with the facet SP, as well as then impact on mental health outcomes or emotional distress outcomes of anxiety and depression. That’s one thing that I thought was really helpful and appreciate. But I guess a couple things.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from. So the problem of, hey, look at us, we promise we’ll be helpful.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. I would hope a referral would go to what’s called an ADRC, and it’s called an Aging and Disability Resource Center.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. Get the hospice referral. And I didn’t actually even call into my meetings because I lost my voice along with my sense of smell and taste. So you need to do them in order.

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