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Experts: Population health needs to address mental health
White, middle-aged Americans have an increasing mortality rate due to behavioral and mental health issues, demonstrating the need for population health to address behavioral health.
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Naloxone Nasal Spray (Narcan)
The FDA has approved naloxone in the form of a nasal spray as a life-saving medication to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
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Here’s a snapshot of a model for case managers embedded with PCPs
Some healthcare organizations are finding that embedding case managers in primary care provider practices is an ideal way to help high-risk patients receive the care coordination and engagement they need to remain healthy.
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Case Management is Crucial to Population Health
The population health model in healthcare is gaining ground as the industry recognizes the benefits in quality improvement, reduced costs, and improved health.
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Nicotinamide Chemoprevention for Skin Cancer Is Impressive
In a Phase III, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, oral nicotinamide was safe and effective in reducing the rates of new nonmelanoma skin cancers and actinic keratoses in high-risk patients.
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Vitamin D Levels and Cognitive Function: Does It Make a Difference?
Similar to previous studies, vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency rates were not significantly different between those with normal cognitive status, mild cognitive impairment, or dementia. However, cognitive decline occurred at a significantly greater rate in individuals with low 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in the areas of episodic memory and executive function.
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Staffing remains a big issue for IRBs in 2016
The job market for experienced and credentialed IRB directors and staff remains high as 2016 begins, but IRB offices continue to cope with increasing workloads and understaffing.
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Is it Normal Aging or Chronic Kidney Disease?
Current clinical guidelines for the diagnosis of chronic kidney disease resulted in more than half of adults > 70 years of age having chronic kidney disease. Should these guidelines change to require age calibration for diagnosis and classification of chronic kidney disease?
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IRB turns pediatric assent into video game
A children’s hospital’s human research protection program developed a video game to obtain assent from pediatric patients.
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Sample items from an IRB authorization agreement
The University of Pennsylvania developed an IRB of record relying site division of responsibility form that outlines what each IRB involved in the collaboration and authorization agreement will do.