Advertisement

Psychiatry

Home Psychiatry
The weighting systems that underlie hospital performance rating tools should incorporate the needs

Personalized Weighting Could Enhance Hospital Rating Tools

Incorporating needs, values, preferences of patients would make rankings more useful to them
A $145

Goop Reaches Settlement in False Advertising Lawsuit

No scientific proof for health claims made for three products sold online
Psychological distress is associated with myocardial infarction and stroke in men and women

Psychological Distress Linked to Increased Risk of MI, Stroke

Dose-dependent, positive association with myocardial infarction and stroke in men and women
High-quality health care needs to be provided to lesbian

Better Training Needed to Boost LGBTQ Patient Health Care

Issues raised at AMA discussion include knowledge gaps for transgender women, screening guidelines
Three U.S. health care foundations and seven hospital groups have formed a generic drug company to combat high prices and chronic shortages of medicines.

Hospital Groups Launch Own Generic Drug Company

The company, Civica Rx, will start with 14 widely used hospital drugs
Emergency department providers need evidence-based strategies to identify and manage patients with opioid use disorder

ED Plays Critical Role in Caring for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder

Review provides evidence-based strategies for identifying, managing, transitioning care
Uncertainty surrounds the future of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program

Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Has Uncertain Future

Justifiable reasons for supporting and changing program, but not for keeping graduates in suspense

August 2018 Briefing – Psychiatry

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Psychiatry for August 2018. This roundup includes the latest...
Integration of pharmacists into team-based care practice models can improve patient outcome

Adding Pharmacist to Team Can Improve Patient Outcomes

Pharmacist roles include helping with insulin treatment, virtual consults, diabetes management
From 1997-1998 to 2015-2016

Last 20 Years Saw Increase in Prevalence of ADHD in Children

Significant increases in prevalence in subgroups by age, sex, race/ethnicity, income, geographic region