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ED-Based Response Center Helps with Children’s Mental Health Needs
Responding to an identified need in the community, Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham created a Psychiatric Intake Response Center (PIRC) to prioritize mental health care for youth. Mental healthcare professionals divide their time between assessing patients who present to the emergency department with mental health concerns and providing guidance to families who call the PIRC for help.
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COVERED Project Seeks to Protect ED Personnel from COVID-19
This is an issue loaded with nuance. Much depends on such factors as how someone works in the emergency department (ED), what procedures they perform, what specific practices they use when performing those procedures, and how often they are exposed. A multidimensional study that seeks to capture all these complexities is well underway, with the goal of delivering solid answers to nurses, physicians, and even many nonclinical personnel who staff EDs across the United States.
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For OUD Treatment, Leverage Existing Resources, Keep Referral Process Simple
Perhaps most importantly, make patients feel comfortable and safe when engaging in these delicate conversations.
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Is It Time for EDs to Play a Central Role in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment?
While frontline providers have their hands full with COVID-19, overdose deaths are surging across the country. Some experts argue now is the perfect time to implement needed reforms in care for patients with opioid use disorder. In particular, they say it is time to fully leverage emergency departments in the quest to initiate these patients on treatment and connect them with ongoing care.
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Stress Linked to STIs, Poor Sexual Health of Black Women
Black women with high levels of stress are more likely to experience sexually transmitted infections and poor sexual and reproductive health, according to the authors of new research.
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Disparities Found When Women Visit Reproductive Health Providers
Results of a new study revealed Black women are more likely to be asked about their sexual risk behavior and condom use than are white women in sexual health counseling settings.
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Engaging Young Males in Family Planning Settings
By the time most American adolescents reach the age of 13 they stop seeing a pediatrician. Young females most often transition seamlessly to a provider for gynecologic and contraceptive needs that connects them, even if loosely, to providers who can flag health issues beyond gynecological needs. However, young males often do not have a regular healthcare provider who serves as a gatekeeper for their ongoing health needs.
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Study Reveals Connection Between Condom Use and Sexual Stimuli Response
Researchers studied a population of young adult women at risk of sexually transmitted infections and HIV. They hypothesized that women with higher positive affective bias to sexual stimuli would report higher sexual risk behaviors. But the opposite proved to be true.
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Study Results Highlight Challenge of Ruling out Pregnancy During Contraceptive Counseling
The recommended ways of ruling out patient pregnancy before starting a new contraceptive include a pregnancy test, the date of the patient’s last unprotected sexual intercourse, and the patient’s symptoms. But there often are cases where it is difficult to rule out pregnancy.
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Model Contraceptive Program Increased LARC Access Among Title X Clients
The Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate led to an increase in injectable contraceptives, but did not help improve access to long-acting, reversible contraceptives, research revealed.