Search results for "Addiction"
Holding off harms from addiction
Hospitalists can help their patients with substance use disorders by learning a little or a lot about harm reduction.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/29/holding-off-harm-for-patients-with-addictions.htm
29 May 2024
In-hospital addiction consults may increase treatment of substance use disorder postdischarge
In a cohort study in Oregon, patients were treated by the Improving Addiction Care Team service, an addiction medicine consult service offered at one large academic hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/08/21/4.htm
21 Aug 2019
Team up to treat opioid addiction
Hospitalists can improve care even without the expertise of an addiction medicine consult service.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/09/team-up-to-treat-opioid-addiction.htm
15 Sep 2021
Addiction treatment rare after hospitalization for endocarditis related to injection drug use
Fewer than one-quarter of adults received medication for opioid use disorder (OUD) in the three months after discharge for injection drug use-associated endocarditis, and OUD treatment was associated with reduced mortality risk only in the month when patients were receiving it.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/10/21/5.htm
21 Oct 2020
December 2010
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/12/
New addiction medicine consult service improved hospital staff perceptions of care
The consult service provided management of withdrawal, medications such as methadone and buprenorphine, counseling and behavioral treatment, peer engagement and support, and linkages to community-based addiction care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/02/3.htm
2 May 2018
August 16, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/08/16/
February 2, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/02/
Hospitalizations for drug abuse-related infective endocarditis increased from 2002 to 2016
Alongside the opioid epidemic, the percentage of U.S. hospitalizations for infective endocarditis that were associated with drug abuse nearly doubled from 2002 (8.0%) to 2016 (16.3%).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/09/25/1.htm
25 Sep 2019
September 2021
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/09/