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Determining patients’ decisional capacity
When do patients no longer have the medical capacity to make their own health care decisions, and when can surrogates make those decisions for...
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Restoring the promise of (really) meaningful use
2017 marks the end of Meaningful Use under Medicare, replaced by an initiative called Advancing Care Information.
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House barely passes ACA repeal/replace bill
The bill passed May 4 by a 217-213 margin, with one Republican member not voting
Conference Coverage
Elder abuse: Strong social support prevents associated psychopathology
SAN FRANCISCO – Social support helps erase the elevated risk of trauma-related psychopathology among elder adults.
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Executive order aims to reform specialized visa program
The executive order will have no immediate effect on foreign physicians, according to experts.
Conference Coverage
Clinical staging of depression endorsed
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – Failing to see depression as a chronic condition that needs to be managed has hampered the ability of psychiatry to help...
Conference Coverage
VIDEO: About 1 in 20 ALS patients in Washington state chose assisted suicide
BOSTON – ALS patients were more likely to take deadly meds postprescription than were cancer patients.
Conference Coverage
Schizophrenia patients’ mortality is 14.5 years shorter
SAN DIEGO – A new systematic review and meta-analysis, the first of its kind, suggests that most people with schizophrenia – especially men – do...
Conference Coverage
Address procrastination, disorganization in hoarding disorder
SAN FRANCISCO – Procrastination and disorganization don’t get the respect they deserve as indicators of hoarding symptom severity.
Conference Coverage
Target self-medication of mood and anxiety symptoms
SAN FRANCISCO – When assessing patients with anxiety and mood symptoms, ask them about self-medication with alcohol or drugs.
From the Journals
Mortality rate was 10-fold higher in opioid use disorder patients
Individuals with opioid use disorder have a significantly higher mortality rate than the general population.