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Warm Handoffs Connect Substance Abuse Patients to Vital Services
Although there are varying perspectives on whether emergency providers should place substance abuse patients on medication-assisted treatment while patients are in the emergency setting, there is wide agreement that linking all such patients to treatment is important.
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New Initiative Slashes Opioid Prescriptions, Boosts Community Response
The Monterey County Prescribe Safe Initiative is a multi-agency collaborative conceived in February 2014 as a way to address the problem of prescription opioid misuse in Monterey County, CA.
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CMS is Accepting Applications for Five-year Primary Care Model
CMS has begun enrolling applications for its new nationwide primary care model, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+).
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Sample List of Quality Measures Under Health Home Model
The New York State Health Home Program has a five-page list of goal-based quality measures collected to assess the program’s success.
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Here’s How Care Management and Care Coordination Work in NY
Typically, referrals to New York’s health home program are made by doctors, probation officers, or mental health clinics, although they could be made by any community organization or provider.
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Across New York, Organizations are Redefining Best Practices in Care Management
All across the Empire State, healthcare payers, providers, and community-based organizations have spent several years participating in a grand, national experiment of improving medical care for the highest-risk Medicaid enrollees.
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Language Creep and Informed Consent: When Did ‘Human Experiments’ Become ‘Clinical Trials?’
There was a time when research involving human subjects was not couched in the relatively innocuous terms like “clinical trials” or “research,” but labeled baldly as an “experiment.”
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Federal Marijuana Decision a Buzzkill for Researchers
In what was widely viewed as a blow to expanding marijuana research for such conditions as post-traumatic stress disorder, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration recently rejected a petition to reclassify cannabis from its current status as a Schedule I drug.
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Longstanding Sex Bias in Clinical Research Still a Problem
Echoing historical trends, researchers have found that a significant level of sex bias exists in human surgical studies.
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IRB Manager Offers Tips on Improving Office Operations
The work pace is speeding up, and it’s not just IRBs — although IRB directors are noticing the effect of having more demands on existing staff. This is a challenge IRB managers can meet by improving their office workflow and operational efficiency.