Search results for "Substance Use Disorder"
Navigation service reduced readmissions of patients with substance use disorder
A single-center trial found benefits from providing recently hospitalized patients with proactive case management, advocacy, service linkage, and motivational support to address substance use disorder, medical, and basic needs for three months after discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/04/07/2.htm
7 Apr 2021
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
Inpatient initiation of HIV therapy linked patients with substance use disorder to outpatient care
While hospital initiation of antiretroviral therapy was associated with increased frequency of HIV outpatient care visits in one trial of participants with HIV and substance use disorder, only 15% started antiretroviral therapy in the hospital, and viral suppression was not improved.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/07/01/4.htm
1 Jul 2020
August 10, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/10/
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
Overdose risk doubled after patient discharge before medically advised
A Canadian study of whether discharge before medically advised was associated with drug overdose risk found that the overdose rate went up significantly after hospitalization whether the discharge was advised or not, compared to earlier no-overdose periods in the patients' lives.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/10/09/overdose-risk-doubled-after-patient-discharge-before-medically-advised.htm
9 Oct 2024
Point-of-care HCV test, Alzheimer's drug approved
The newly approved test detects hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA and delivers results in about an hour using a blood sample from the fingertip.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/31/point-of-care-hcv-test-alzheimers-drug-approved.htm
31 Jul 2024
Hospitalizations involving alcohol, other substance disorders increased by 57% in recent years
A study of U.S. acute care visits from 2014 to 2018 found that on average, 9.3 million (9.4%) ED visits and 1.4 million (11.9%) hospitalizations per year involved alcohol use disorders or substance use disorders, with rates of both increasing over time.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/09/22/2.htm
22 Sep 2021
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/
Substance use problems in the U.S. exacerbated by pandemic, studies indicate
The percentage of urine tests that were positive for illicit drugs increased, an ED saw more nonfatal opioid overdoses, and experts offered hospitalist-specific advice on handling substance use disorders.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/30/2.htm
30 Sep 2020