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261. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/72737/psn-pdf
     February 09, 2021 - to develop an outpatient addiction medicine specialty program that incorporated medication-assisted treatment … However, inpatient treatment alone is often inadequate to address opioid addiction because of the chronic … Unfortunately, prior to implementation, the treatment culture in PA focused on an inpatient abstinence-only … model rather than integrating the use of medication-assisted treatment across all care settings.3 … Treatment of substance use disorders is a relatively new field and a new specialty.

262. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/851348/psn-pdf
     July 12, 2023 - Widespread misinterpretation of advance directives and Portable Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments … Widespread misinterpretation of advance directives and Portable Orders for Life- Sustaining Treatments … is discordant with patients’ preferences for end-of-life care can lead to unnecessary or unwanted treatment … This article summarizes the incidence of treatment discordant with their Portable Orders for Life Sustaining … Treatment (POLST) and advanced directives (ADs) and tools for use by clinicians and patients and family

263. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/865412/psn-pdf
     March 27, 2024 - Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with a Psychiatric Presentation March … Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with a Psychiatric Presentation. … Despite the possibility of targeted treatment, the patient died suddenly of organ failure. … Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: diagnosis, psychiatric presentation, and treatment. … Neuropsychiatric lupus: new mechanistic insights and future treatment directions.

264. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/50698/psn-pdf
     November 27, 2019 - Successful completion of this exercise can be therapeutic for patients and provides very useful information … means, lethal pain medications, and hot-spots for suicide by jumping.11  With respective to specific therapeutic … interventions, modest benefits have been documented for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical … behavioral therapy (DBT), and some medications have been shown to reduce suicide rates as compared … Evidence-based medication treatments for “maintenance treatment” of alcohol use disorders are underutilized

265. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     December 14, 2022 - of criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people to identify inadequate drug treatment … of criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people to identify inadequate drug treatment … such as the Screening Tool of Older Persons' Prescriptions (STOPP)/Screening Tool to Alert to Right Treatment … criteria sets and found that all three performed poorly as diagnostic tools to identify inadequate drug treatment

266. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/61018/psn-pdf
     October 14, 2020 - pain is a well-established patient safety problem but less is known about chronic use after cancer treatment … assess the risks of serious adverse events associated with continued prescription opioid use after treatment … Findings indicate that opioid use after active cancer treatment was associated with a 15-fold increase … improve outcomes by closely monitoring and reducing unnecessary long-term opioid use after cancer treatment

267. Spotlight
     psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-08/spotlight_case_a_fatal_twist_in_pseudohyperkalemia_slides.pptx
     January 01, 2024 - The patient also received treatment for hyperkalemia with albuterol, intravenous calcium, insulin with … potassium <3.5 mEq/L, can be caused by decreased intake, renal and gastrointestinal losses (e.g., diuretic therapy … to assess response and guide subsequent therapy. 26 26 Take Home Points 27 Take-Home Points … Pharmacological treatment of acquired QT prolongation and torsades de pointes. … Polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: terminology, mechanism, diagnosis, and emergency therapy.

268. Doctor, Don't Treat Thyself | PSNet
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     August 21, 2024 - seeking help can lead to self-treatment. … For some physicians, a separate but special concern is self-treatment with addictive drugs. … Thus, there is a need to find new strategies to help physicians obtain optimal treatment. … It is important to ask about self-treatment and self-diagnosis and to discuss the diagnostic and treatment … Ask about self-treatment and self-diagnosis and discourage these practices.

269. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/836828/psn-pdf
     March 30, 2022 - Effects of state opioid prescribing laws on use of opioid and other pain treatments among commercially … Effects of state opioid prescribing laws on use of opioid and other pain treatments among commercially … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effects-state-opioid-prescribing-laws-use-opioid-and-other-pain-treatments … explored the association between state opioid prescribing laws and trends in opioid and nonopioid pain treatment … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effects-state-opioid-prescribing-laws-use-opioid-and-other-pain-treatments-among-commercially

270. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/844787/psn-pdf
     September 11, 2019 - single-center study found that Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) orders and Physician Orders for Life- Sustaining Treatment … When queried by study staff, 44% of patients expressed wishes for life- sustaining treatment that differed … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/triad-vii-do-prehospital-providers-understand-physician-orders-life-sustaining-treatment … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/triad-vii-do-prehospital-providers-understand-physician-orders-life-sustaining-treatment

271. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/866992/psn-pdf
     May 29, 2024 - due to the stigma associated with substance use and partly because treatment approaches historically … As a result, only around one-in-10 people with a substance use disorder have received treatment,6 and … , and substance use disorder treatment programs. … Methadone maintenance therapy versus no opioid replacement therapy for opioid dependence. … outpatient addiction treatment.

272. Delayed Recognition of a Positive Blood Culture | PSNet
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     January 29, 2020 - The Case A 58-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer recently treated with immunosuppressive therapy … The medical team ordered appropriate antibiotic treatment for C. difficile but did not initiate treatment … altogether, withholding treatment while awaiting testing results, empirical treatment while awaiting … With concurrent Clostridium difficile infection, the harms of empiric antibiotic therapy likely outweigh … microbiology tests result after discharge and approximately 2% of those require follow-up or a change in therapy

273. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/858324/psn-pdf
     December 13, 2023 - discusses the stereotypical assessments made by practitioners that affect diagnosis, communication, and treatment … many-people-color-worry-good-health-care-tied-their-appearance https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/unequal-treatment-confronting-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-health-care … perspectives-about-racism-and-patient-clinician-communication-among-black-adults-serious https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/racial-and-ethnic-differences-experience-and-treatment-noncancer-pain

274. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60562/psn-pdf
     June 03, 2020 - case-controlled study of relatives' complaints concerning patients who died in hospital: the role of treatment … case-controlled study of relatives’ complaints concerning patients who died in hospital: the role of treatment … case-controlled-study-relatives-complaints-concerning-patients-who-died- hospital-role Used in the United Kingdom, treatment … end-of-life care plans  used in the United States) are intended to minimize harm by setting individualized treatment

275. Missed Opportunities for Suicide Risk Assessment | PSNet
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     September 27, 2023 - Successful completion of this exercise can be therapeutic for patients and provides very useful information … means, lethal pain medications, and hot-spots for suicide by jumping. 11   With respective to specific therapeutic … interventions, modest benefits have been documented for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical … behavioral therapy (DBT), and some medications have been shown to reduce suicide rates as compared to … Evidence-based medication treatments for “maintenance treatment” of alcohol use disorders are underutilized

276. Spotlight (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/spotlight_integration_and_coordination_of_disesase_treatment_and_palliative_care_final.pdf
     January 01, 2021 - , also known as disease-directed therapies. 11 When Policy Lags Behind Care: The Hospice Benefit … Many hospices at the outset specify which costly palliative treatments they will or will not “approve … culture of hospice and palliative care has become estranged from clinicians who deliver diagnostic and therapeutic … – Examples include chemotherapy, radiation, hemodialysis, and therapeutic paracentesis. … Whole brain radiation therapy was administered.

277. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/841469/psn-pdf
     December 14, 2022 - Summarize approaches to diagnosis and treatment of Strongyloides infection. … His treatment of multiple myeloma also included long periods on dexamethasone, but he was no longer … of Strongyloides and Loa loa infection thus requires specialized treatment at dedicated centers.  … Strongyloides hyperinfection has a high mortality even with treatment. … Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Strongyloides stercoralis Infection.

278. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60193/psn-pdf
     July 01, 2022 - Improving Diagnosis and Treatment of Maternal Sepsis. …   https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-diagnosis-and-treatment-maternal-sepsis This toolkit … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-diagnosis-and-treatment-maternal-sepsis https://psnet.ahrq.gov

279. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/865519/psn-pdf
     April 10, 2024 - differences-donor-heart-acceptance-race-and-gender-patients-transplant- waiting-list Implicit bias can impact how long a patient waits for appropriate treatment … United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) to determine how many offers of donor hearts a transplant treatment … differences-donor-heart-acceptance-race-and-gender-patients-transplant-waiting-list https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/breast-cancer-treatment-delays-socioeconomic-and-health-care-access-latent-classes-black-and

280. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/865662/psn-pdf
     April 24, 2024 - Oncologist perceptions of racial disparity, racial anxiety, and unconscious bias in clinical interactions, treatment … Oncologist perceptions of racial disparity, racial anxiety, and unconscious bias in clinical interactions, treatment … multilevel-factors-associated-time-biopsy-after-abnormal-screening-mammography-results-race https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/health-disparities-impact-health-disparities-and-treatment-decision-making-biases-cancer