A patient-centered approach to tapering opioids.

Simply treating opioid addiction isn't enough. Instead, reposition your patient's singular circumstances and needs at the center of efforts to end use of these agents.

Hospital Length of Stay With a Proactive Psychiatric Consultation Model in the Medical Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Cohort Analysis.

Background: Previous studies have demonstrated that proactive psychiatric consultation reduces hospital length of stay (LOS) in the general medical setting; however this model has not been studied in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Objective: To compare outcomes between a conventional consultation model and a proactive psychiatric consultation model.

Methods: Two medical ICUs (MICUs) were randomized to proactive psychiatric consultation vs conventional consultation psychiatric models.

Subphysiological compressive loading reduces apoptosis following acute impact injury in a porcine cartilage model.

Background: Acute cartilage injuries induce cell death and are associated with an increased incidence of osteoarthritis development later in life. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of posttraumatic cyclic compressive loading on chondrocyte viability and apoptosis in porcine articular cartilage plugs.

Hypothesis: Compressive loading of acutely injured cartilage can maintain chondrocyte viability by reducing apoptosis after a traumatic impact injury.

Multi-site diagnosis and management of 260 patients with auditory neuropathy/dys-synchrony (auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder).

Test results and management data are summarized for 260 patients with diagnoses of Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD). Hearing aids were tried in 85 of these patients, and 49 patients tried cochlear implants. Approximately 15% reported some benefit from hearing aids for language learning, while improvement in speech comprehension and language acquisition was reported in 85% of patients who were implanted.