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Medical faculty students risk perception, attitudes, and behaviors regarding protection from COVID-19 infection
CONCLUSIONS: Medical students' attitude and behavior score towards protection against COVID-19 infection is slightly above the average level. Medical education should prepare students to manage epidemics.PMID:36734724 | DOI:10.26355/eurrev_202301_31084
Source: European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences - February 3, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: N Meydan Acimis N A Celikyurek M Akin Source Type: research

Entire state gets one naloxone prescription
There are many steps that need to be taken to end an epidemic—including policy, medication, coverage and treatment expansion—and require physicians to take the lead in fighting for their patients. Leaders in Pennsylvania are on a mission to provide that help to both the people who are suffering in the opioid epidemics and the physicians who treat them. A standing order for naloxone Through a multiagency effort, Pennsylvania’s physician general Rachel Levine, MD, in October signed a statewide prescription for naloxone, making this lifesaving overdose reversal drug available to the entire population. “As we wer...
Source: AMA Wire - May 27, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news

Risk Management: Prescribing Controlled Substances: Managing the Risks
Conclusion Using the three Cs of risk management strategies—collecting information, communicating, and carefully documenting—when prescribing controlled substances supports quality patient care and can decrease the risk of improper prescribing allegations. Appendix 1. Prescribing Controlled Substances: Informed Consent Some, but not all states have promulgated various requirements and recommendations for components of an informed consent discussion when prescribing controlled substances.  The following is a compilation of current individual state requirements and recommendations for informed consent.  Prescribers sho...
Source: Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience - April 1, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: ICNS Online Editor Tags: Current Issue Risk Management Source Type: research

Physicians identify ways to improve opioid overdose prevention
A national physician survey released Thursday shows strong support for key policies and recommendations to end the nation’s opioid epidemic, including ways to improve prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP), enhance physician education and remove barriers to care. Learn what physicians said and discover resources that can help advance their efforts. The survey, which was commissioned by the AMA and the AMA Task Force to Reduce Prescription Opioid Abuse, had five key findings: PDMPs can be valuable tools: 87 percent of physicians agree that PDMPs help them become more informed about a patient’s prescription ...
Source: AMA Wire - February 18, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Amy Farouk Source Type: news

Innovative development ideas of web-based medical teaching during the COVID-19 epidemic.
Authors: Ma ZB, Zhu XD, Bo H, Guo JS, Liu XM Abstract OBJECTIVE: In response to the sudden COVID-19 epidemic outbreak, China's Ministry of Education proposed "continuing teaching and learning regardless of suspending classes" to provide "available courses and teachers" for students. Web-based teaching has become the main teaching method of medical colleges and universities during the COVID-19 epidemic period. Before the outbreak, the concept and technology of web-based teaching had been partially implemented. The epidemic situation has promoted the implementation of large-scale web-based teaching and the multidimen...
Source: European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences - December 19, 2020 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci Source Type: research

Physician efforts to reverse opioid epidemic quantified
When patients present with issues, physicians look to the most effective tools for treatment. The same is true in addressing an epidemic. While much more work remains to reverse the nation ’s opioid epidemic, using tools such as prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP), medication-assisted treatment and naloxone, physicians are making progress. A new fact sheet provides some evidence of that progress on a number of fronts.Focused prescribing practices In a fact sheet released by the AMA,physicians ’ progress to reverse the nation’s opioid epidemic was quantified showing new trends in the use of available tools. ...
Source: AMA Wire - September 14, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news

Extreme Risk Protection Orders: An Opportunity to Improve Gun Violence Prevention Training
States are increasingly enacting extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws, also known as “red flag” or gun violence restraining order laws, as one part of a multidisciplinary approach to address the national gun violence epidemic. Passed into law in more than 10 states and under consideration by legislatures in approximately 30 others, ERPO laws create a legal process to temporarily remove firearms from people who may pose a risk to themselves or others. By enabling family or household members, law enforcement, and, in some cases, health care professionals to petition courts when they are concerned about a potential c...
Source: Academic Medicine - October 30, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research