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Research documents the existing models of care for patients with opioid use disorder

Research documents the existing models of care for patients with opioid use disorder Data show that concurrent with the opioid overdose crisis, there has been an increase in hospitalizations of people with opioid use disorder (OUD). One in ten of these hospitalized medical or surgical patients have comorbid opioid-related diagnoses. Research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) documents existing models of care for these patients and defines essential components of such models to set a standard of hospital care. The review is the first of its kind to systematically document components, staffing models, and outcomes of existing interventions.

Vast undertreatment of diabetes seen in global study

Nearly half a billion people on the planet have diabetes, but most of them aren’t getting the kind of care that could make their lives healthier, longer and more productive, according to a new global study of data from people with the condition. Many don’t even know they have the condition. Only 1 in 10 people with diabetes in the 55 low- and middle-income countries studied receive the type of comprehensive care that’s been proven to reduce diabetes-related problems, according to the new findings published in Lancet Healthy Longevity. That comprehensive package of care low-cost medicines to reduce blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol levels; and counseling on diet, exercise and weight can help lower the health risks of undertreated diabetes. Those risks include future heart attacks, strokes, nerve damage, blindness, amputations and other disabling or fatal conditions.

Pediatric medicine expert Eliana Perrin joins JHU

Pediatric medicine expert Eliana Perrin joins JHU She is a leader in the field of pediatric primary care and childhood obesity; she comes to JHU from Duke University Image caption: Eliana Perrin May 25, 2021 When she was a pediatrics resident at Stanford University doing her rounds on the hospital wards or seeing patients in her continuity clinic, Eliana Perrin always had many questions for her supervising physicians questions about why certain children came into care sicker than others, or how the challenges some patients encountered in their day-to-day lives affected their health. One astute attending told me, You ask lots of questions, and you ask the kinds of questions that can t be answered at the bedside, Perrin remembers. The attending physician recommended that Perrin pursue research training to learn how to investigate difficult questions like these and begin to think more upstream than busy clinical practice allows.

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