Mental Health
News
HHS will drop buprenorphine waiver rule for most physicians
There were more than 83,000 deaths attributed to drug overdoses in the United States in the 12 months ending in June 2020.
Quality
Finding meaning in ‘Lean’?
Physician well-being should be included among quality improvement metrics for health systems.
News
Children’s hospitals grapple with wave of mental illness
The proportion of children who arrived in EDs with mental health issues increased 24% from mid-March through mid-October,
Clinical
Social isolation at the time of social distancing
Social distancing in the hospital contributes to the development of isolation, loneliness, and fear.
News
New resilience center targets traumatized health care workers
“It’s been grueling but we learned how to care of ourselves so we can take care of our patients,” said Joe Ciavarro, a PA at Mount Sinai.
News
Child abuse visits to EDs declined in 2020, but not admissions
Proportion of visits related to child abuse and neglect that resulted in hospitalizations increased from 2019 to 2020.
Clinical
Reducing admissions for alcohol withdrawal syndrome
If alcohol detox were an ambulatory care sensitive condition, it would be the largest in the VA by a substantial margin.
News
Patient health suffers amid pandemic health care shortages
More than half of clinician respondents to a survey said they saw a decline in patient health because of delayed or inaccessible care.
News
Antidepressant shows early promise for mild COVID-19
The findings on fluvoxamine “need to be interpreted as hypothesis generating rather than as a demonstration of efficacy,” the study authors wrote...
News
Nearly one in five develop mental illness following COVID-19