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Treating Opioid Use Disorder Could Lower Recidivism Rates
Giving inmates buprenorphine helped them avoid new court charges, probation violations, and reincarceration.
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Take Stock of Your Cybersecurity on Data Privacy Day
Part of building patient trust is ensuring personal information remains private and protected.
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Investigators Use Personalized Modeling to Diagnose Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Blended techniques could help clinicians draft more effective treatment plans.
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Report Reveals Gaps in Coverage for Mental Health, Substance Use Disorders
Federal agencies detail problems, progress related to a key consumer protection law.
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FDA Modifies Authorizations for COVID-19 Therapeutics
In the face of the omicron onslaught, certain once-reliable monoclonal antibodies are not as effective.
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Should the Cath Lab Be Activated?
How should one interpret the ECG in the figure? Should the cardiac cath lab be activated on the basis of this ECG?
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Sotrovimab Injection
In vitro neutralization data, artificial intelligence modeling, and anecdotal reports suggest sotrovimab is effective against the omicron variant while the efficacy of other monoclonal antibodies appears to wane.
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Best Practices in Utilization Management
The increasing complexity of healthcare has taken the field of case management along for the ride, and with it the practice of utilization management. -
SARS-CoV-2 as a North American Zoonosis
COVID-19 has become a North American zoonosis endemic in the Northeastern white-tailed deer population. Whether it causes symptomatic infection is unclear, but most infections likely are subclinical, with viral shedding in nasal secretions and feces. Now that infection has become established in this animal group, it likely will spread easily.
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Effect of COVID-19 on Patient Severity of Illness, Evaluating Hospital Performance
Patients with COVID-19 not only experience a higher mortality rate, but also a longer length of stay than other viral illness patients, even when adjusted for other patient factors such as age and comorbidities. Because of this, it is a challenge to evaluate hospital performance during the pandemic.