A Hutt Valley District Health Board campaign to cut the number of urine tests being carried out on hospital patients not only significantly reduced the number of unnecessary tests being ordered but also lowered the level ...
Jan 22, 2019
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A new study performed by Boston Medical Center (BMC) and faculty at the Boston University School of Medicine shows that urine drug testing can be a useful tool to treat patients with opioid use disorder in a primary care ...
Dec 20, 2018
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Recent increasing police activities focused on people who inject drugs in Thailand have involved reported injustices that may lead to riskier behaviors in people who inject drugs (PWID), according to a study published this ...
Dec 10, 2013
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The medical community has long known that patients on long-term opioid therapy often have significantly more health care visits. But adhering to a standardized care process model for opioid prescriptions appears to reduce ...
Oct 16, 2018
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New research finds that brief interventions in a primary care clinic can reduce patients' risky substance use by 4.5 days per month—a 40 percent decline among the Latino patients surveyed—compared with people who did ...
Sep 1, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Recent guidelines on chronic pain management agree on several opioid risk mitigation strategies, according to a review published online Nov. 12 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Nov 13, 2013
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