'Once that's worn off, we could discuss whether you need more': provider perspectives on communicating with patients and other providers about prescription opioids.

Background: Prescriber-patient communication plays a crucial role in understanding patients' needs, while reducing risks for developing an opioid use disorder (OUD), yet research on this is sparse. As such, the need to understand healthcare providers' skills, comfort, and confidence when discussing opioids with patients and other providers is an important step in balancing patients' needs from a pain perspective and risks from an OUD perspective.

Method: We interviewed 32 Massachusetts providers (physicians, physician associates, nurse practitioners, and dental practitioners) to assess their communication strategies with patients and other providers.

Perioperative Outcomes for Same- Versus Next-Day Discharge After Benign Vaginal Hysterectomy.

Importance: While same-day discharge (SDD) after laparoscopic hysterectomy is well supported, studies for vaginal hysterectomy (VH) are lacking.

Objective: The aim of the study was to compare 30-day complications for SDD versus next-day discharge (NDD) after benign VH.

Study Design: This was a retrospective cohort study using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database from 2012 to 2019.

Comparison of Readmission Rates for Same-Day Versus Next-Day Discharge After Benign Vaginal Hysterectomy.

Importance: Same-day discharge (SDD) for laparoscopic hysterectomy is shown to be safe and acceptable, but data for vaginal hysterectomy (VH) are lacking.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare 30-day readmission rates, timing, and reasons for readmission for SDD versus next-day discharge (NDD) after VH.

Study Design: This was a retrospective cohort study using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database from 2012 to 2019.

Long-term antiretroviral therapy mitigates mortality and morbidity independent of HIV tropism: 18 years follow-up in a women's cohort.

Objective: CXCR4 (X4)-tropic HIV-1 was found previously to herald CD4 + cell depletion and disease progression in individuals who were antiretroviral-naive or took combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) for less than 5 years. We updated this finding by investigating whether the deleterious effect of X4-tropic strains is mitigated by long-term cART.

Design: We examined morbidity and mortality in relation to HIV-1 tropism and cART in 529 participants followed up to 18 years in the Women's Interagency HIV Study; 91% were women of color.