Background/aim: The physician-administrator dyads are a strategic method of collaboration in healthcare organisations. Dyad leaders are part of a multidisciplinary team that integrates their expertise to generate better patient, physician, and organisational outcomes. An assumption of team science is that diverse experts, while knowledgeable, struggle to work together to resolve problems because of their vastly different decision-making and implementation strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDisruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct disorders (DIC) affect 5 million children in the United States and often require comprehensive and long-term behavioral health care for which sustained parental involvement is essential. Our research team is developing an intervention to improve parental engagement in the behavioral health care of their children with DIC. The intervention, which will be a modification of an evidence-based shared decision-making intervention called DECIDE, will include a parent component and a provider component.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConducting clinical research in public sector community mental health centers (CMHCs) can be challenging. The purpose of this report is to describe the challenges our research team encountered in engaging CMHC providers in a clinical trial aimed at testing an intervention to improve parent activation and engagement in their child's behavioral healthcare. We discuss the intervention we aimed to test, the challenges we encountered engaging providers, and the barriers to engagement that we identified.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL) is an uncommon condition, accounting for only 2% of all non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cases. Individuals with LPL face the risk of vascular blockage when associated with type I cryoglobulinemia, leading to related symptoms. Until now, no instances of LPL with dry gangrene have been documented.
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