Laurel Ranger

High level internal attribution bias and dysfunctional attitudes, when combined with a tendency to use drugs or alcohol as a coping mechanism, may affect patients’ willingness to use proactive coping efforts.

Depression is twice as common in patients with chronic pain compared to health subjects, and pain intensity, frequency, and number of locations are linked to depression and anxiety.

The adjusted rate of opioid use increased nearly 4-fold (adjusted odds ratio, 4.18; 95% CI, 1.76-9.96), from 4.7% among new immigrants to 14.8% among those who had been in this country for 15 years or more.

Older adults with severe depressive symptoms are more likely to be taking high-potency opioid medications compared with older adults without such symptoms.

On average, 45% of callers reporting current heroin use were denied an appointment with a buprenorphine provider. More of those paying cash were offered an appointment, compared with those covered by Medicaid.

Medicaid expansion has created an “urgent need” to engage primary care practices in serving the expanded Medicaid population.

As federal healthcare reform has expanded medical insurance to millions of people, hospitals have an increasing role in improving community health.

This noninferiority trial showed no more chronic sleep loss or sleepiness across trial days among interns in flexible programs than among those in standard programs.

Usability challenges continue to affect health information technology (HIT), according to a viewpoint article by Raj M. Ratwani, PhD, of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, Georgetown University School of Medicine, in Washington, DC, and colleagues, published in JAMA. Most US hospitals and ambulatory clinicians have adopted electronic health records (EHR),…

Widespread improvements in digital communication, hardware, and software have resulted in positive changes in the healthcare technology landscape.