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Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Playbook

Author/s: Moran, G, Snyder, C, OUD Playbook Working Group

Purpose

The AHRQ Academy developed the Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Playbook (referred to as the MAT for OUD Playbook), a practical guide for implementing MAT in primary care and other ambulatory care settings. While the Playbook aims to help providers in rural...

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opioid-use disorder medication-assisted treatment OUD MAT toolkit

Testing of a Tool for Prostate Cancer Screening Discussions in Primary Care

Author/s: Misra-Hebert, AD, Hom, G, Klein, EA, Bauman, JA, Gupta, N, Ji, X, Stephenson, AJ, Jones, JS, Kattan, Kattan, MW

The link to the study is available here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30003062

BACKGROUND:

As prostate cancer (PCa) screening decisions often occur in outpatient primary care, a brief tool to help the PCa ...

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cancer screening clinical decision-making prostate cancer prostate-specific antigen shared decision-making

Medical Marijuana for Treatment of Chronic Pain and Other Problems

Interview with Kevin P. Hill, MD, MHS, author of Medical Marijuana for Treatment of Chronic Pain and Other Medical and Psychiatric Problems: A Clinical Review, and Deepak Cyril D'Souza, MBBS, MD, author of Medical Marijuana: Is the Cart Before the Horse?
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medical marijuana cannabis

Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients: Beyond Survival Statistics

Interview with Joanna Paladino, MD, author of Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients: Beyond Survival Statistics

Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients: Beyond Survival Statistics

Author/s: Paladino, J., Lakin, J.R., Sanders J.J.

Communicating prognosis, the anticipated course of living with an illness, is a core clinical skill and a foundation of the patient-clinician relationship. Clinicians find such communication challenging. Concerns about professional helplessness when caring for a patient with a disease with a...

Disseminated Gonococcal Infection

Author/s: Florez-Pollack, Stephanie, Mauskar, Melissa M.

A 20-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a rash involving the arms, legs, trunk, and scalp, which had erupted that morning . . .
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gonorrhea neisseria gonorrhoeae

Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Author/s: Bhandari, Shruti, Kumar, Rohit

A 35-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of abdominal pain, headache, and brown urine . . .
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thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura glucocorticoids

Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care

Author/s: Bright Futures, American Academy of Pediatrics

American Academy of Pediatrics Preventative Care Priodicity Guideline.
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preventative care

Obesity Treatment, Beyond the Guidelines: Practical Suggestions for Clinical Practice

Author/s: Kahan, Scott, Manson, JoAnn E.

No abstract available.
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obesity primary care overweight weight loss

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