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Tackling Overdose Epidemic Will Require Addressing Disparities in SUD Prevention, Care
Despite efforts to address the epidemic of deaths from drug overdose in the United States, drug-overdose deaths are rising faster in Black, Latinx, and American Indian and Alaska Native populations than in the White population.“Numerous trials have documented the efficacy of medications for opioid use disorder and other SUD interventions. But such treatments are often less available to members of historically marginalized groups than to White patients,” noted Carlos Blanco, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Institute on Dr ug Abuse (NIDA), Elisabeth U. Kato, M.D., M.R.P., of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a...
Source: Psychiatr News - June 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Alaska Native American Indian black data collection disparities Latinx New England Journal of Medicine opioids research social determinants of health substance use disorders Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 6815: Development, Pilot Study, and Psychometric Analysis of the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture ™ (SOPS®) Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals
IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 6815: Development, Pilot Study, and Psychometric Analysis of the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®) Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph19116815 Authors: Katarzyna Zebrak Naomi Yount Joann Sorra Theresa Famolaro Laura Gray Deborah Carpenter Andrew Caporaso Workplace safety is critical for advancing patient safety and eliminating harm to both the healthcare workforce and patients. The purpose of this study was to develop and test survey items that can be used in conjun...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - June 2, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Katarzyna Zebrak Naomi Yount Joann Sorra Theresa Famolaro Laura Gray Deborah Carpenter Andrew Caporaso Tags: Article Source Type: research

Influencing Discharge Efficiency: Addressing Interdisciplinary Communication, Transportation, and COVID-19 as Barriers
Purpose: At one tertiary, academic medical center, two general medicine units averaged 94% and 97% occupancy causing strain on patient throughput. This project was implemented at these two comparable general medicine units, totaling 64 beds. On each of these units, Pareto analyses on causal factors related to discharge order to exit time (DOTE) were performed. DOTE was defined as the period in minutes from when a provider orders a discharge to when the patient actually exits a room. Prime DOTE reduction opportunities were elicited that highlighted the need to address coordination of hospital discharge transportation; t...
Source: Professional Case Management - May 31, 2022 Category: Health Management Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Embedded emergency department physical therapy versus usual care for acute low back pain: a protocol for the NEED-PT randomised trial
BMJ Open. 2022 May 24;12(5):e061283. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061283.ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: Low back pain is a common problem and a substantial source of morbidity and disability worldwide. Patients frequently visit the emergency department (ED) for low back pain, but many experience persistent symptoms at 3 months despite frequent receipt of opioids. Although physical therapy interventions have been demonstrated to improve patient functioning in the outpatient setting, no randomised trial has yet to evaluate physical therapy in the ED setting.METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This is a single-centre cluster-randomised trial of an emb...
Source: Pain Physician - May 25, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Howard S Kim Kayla M Muschong Ivy L Fishman Jacob M Schauer Amee L Seitz Kyle J Strickland Bruce L Lambert Danielle M McCarthy My H Vu Jody D Ciolino Source Type: research

Corrigendum to “Factors associated with potentially avoidable interhospital transfers in emergency general surgery–A call for quality improvement efforts. Surgery. 2021 Nov 1;170(5):1298-307.”
This study is an analysis of the State Inpatient Database and State Emergency Department Database, which are restricted-access, publicly available datasets that are mainta ined by the AHRQ. One of the provisions of the Data Use Agreement is that no data observation involving less than or equal to 10 observations is to be published. This measure was put in place by AHRQ to protect individual patients’ privacy and to prevent the potential disclosure of personal inform ation. (Source: Surgery)
Source: Surgery - May 24, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Cindy Y. Teng, Billie S. Davis, Jeremy M. Kahn, Matthew R. Rosengart, Joshua B. Brown Tags: Corrigendum Source Type: research

Embedded emergency department physical therapy versus usual care for acute low back pain: a protocol for the NEED-PT randomised trial
Introduction Low back pain is a common problem and a substantial source of morbidity and disability worldwide. Patients frequently visit the emergency department (ED) for low back pain, but many experience persistent symptoms at 3 months despite frequent receipt of opioids. Although physical therapy interventions have been demonstrated to improve patient functioning in the outpatient setting, no randomised trial has yet to evaluate physical therapy in the ED setting. Methods and analysis This is a single-centre cluster-randomised trial of an embedded ED physical therapy intervention for acute low back pain. We used a cova...
Source: BMJ Open - May 24, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Kim, H. S., Muschong, K. M., Fishman, I. L., Schauer, J. M., Seitz, A. L., Strickland, K. J., Lambert, B. L., McCarthy, D. M., Vu, M. H., Ciolino, J. D. Tags: Open access, Emergency medicine Source Type: research

Improving patient and clinician safety during COVID-19 through rapidly adaptive simulation and a randomised controlled trial: a study protocol
Introduction COVID-19 required healthcare systems to iteratively adapt for safe and up-to-date care as knowledge of the disease rapidly evolved. Rates of COVID-19 infections continue to fluctuate and patients without COVID-19 increasingly return to the emergency department (ED) for care. This leads to new challenges and threats to patient and clinician safety as suspected patients with COVID-19 need to be quickly detected and isolated among other patients with non-COVID-19-related illnesses. At the front lines, emergency physicians also face continued personal safety concerns and increased work burden, which heighten stres...
Source: BMJ Open - May 19, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Evans, L. V., Ray, J. M., Bonz, J. W., Joseph, M., Gerwin, J. N., Dziura, J. D., Venkatesh, A. K., Wong, A. H. Tags: Open access, Emergency medicine, COVID-19 Source Type: research

A Look Back at The Masters in HM
Every year since, 2009, SHM has awarded the Master in Hospital Medicine (MHM) designation to those members who reach the apex of distinguished prestige in the hospital medicine community. These members have made remarkable and significant contributions to the HM field and health care in general. At this year’s SHM Converge, MHM designees for 2022, 2021, and 2020 were recognized in person for the first time. These members stand out with their character, positions of honor, contributions toward furthering SHM goals, distinction in practice, education, medical research, and achievements in science or the art of hospital med...
Source: The Hospitalist - May 12, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Lisa Casinger Tags: Career Converge Uncategorized Source Type: research

Summary of the 2020 AHRQ research meeting on 'advancing methods of implementing and evaluating patient experience improvement using consumer assessment of healthcare providers and systems (CAHPS ®) surveys'
Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res. 2022 May 5:1-8. doi: 10.1080/14737167.2022.2064848. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality held a research meeting on using Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) data for quality improvement (QI) and evaluating such efforts.TOPICS COVERED.: Meeting addressed: 1)What has been learned about organizational factors/environment needed to improve patient experience? 2)How have organizations used data to improve patient experience? 3)What can evaluations using CAHPS data teach us about implementing successful progra...
Source: Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research - May 5, 2022 Category: Health Management Authors: Denise Quigley Nabeel Qureshi Lise Rybowski Dale Shaller Susan Edgman-Levitan Paul D Cleary Caren Ginsberg Ron D Hays Source Type: research

Global epidemiology of leprosy from 2010 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the proportion of sex, type, grade 2 deformity and age
This study suggested that disparities existed between sex, type, grade 2 deformity (G2D) and age group characteristics of leprosy from country to country.PMID:35510339 | DOI:10.1080/20477724.2022.2057722 (Source: Pathogens and Global Health)
Source: Pathogens and Global Health - May 5, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jing Yang Xiang Li Yanqi Sun Lianhua Zhang Guangjie Jin Guoli Li Shunyu Zhang Kunchi Hou Yunhui Li Source Type: research