Association Between Neighborhood Context and Psychotropic Polypharmacy Use Among High-Need Children.

Objective: The authors explored whether neighborhood context is associated with psychotropic polypharmacy and psychotherapy among a cohort of children with high needs for psychiatric and general medical care.

Methods: Electronic health record data from a large health care system were used in a cross-sectional design to examine psychotropic polypharmacy and psychotherapy in 2015-2019 among children ages 2-17 years (N=4,017) with geocoded addresses. Inclusion criteria were a diagnosis of a mental health condition, an intellectual and developmental disability, or a complex medical condition and one or more clinical encounters annually over the study period.

Take the Right Turn: The Role of Social Signals and Action-Reaction Sequences in Enacting Turning Points in Negotiations.

Negotiations and conflicts do not evolve smoothly but are discontinuous involving transitions, break-, and turning points that change the flow of the negotiation. Given that these departures may be decisive in determining whether the involved parties come to a successful conclusion, several scholars have pointed out the importance of investigating whether impasse and settlement dyads exhibit different turning point profiles. To address this question, we extended Druckman's (J Confl Resolut 45:519-544, 2001) turning point model by integrating interlocking action-reaction sequences that initiate and (dis)confirm the departure from zero-sum bargaining.

Patients Are Willing to Wait for Rapid Sexually Transmitted Infection Results in a University Student Health Clinic.

We examined the acceptability and feasibility of using a 30-minute chlamydia/gonorrhea test in a student health clinical setting. One hundred eight students were enrolled and 89.4% were willing to wait up to 20 minutes beyond the conclusion of their routine visit.

Medical-Legal Partnership in Western North Carolina: Addressing Social Determinants of Health Through Team-Based Care.

Having an attorney on a health care team helps address patients' social determinants of health. Through a medical-legal partnership, Pisgah Legal Services provides an attorney embedded within the Mountain Area Health Education Center clinical practices. The attorney impacts the Triple Aim of reducing costs by improving health and the patient experience.

Buncombe County: One Path Toward a Resilient Community.

There is an increasing national awareness that improving the health of the nation will need to involve addressing social determinants of health, including adverse childhood experiences. Advances in translational science and the science of social change have created new opportunities to address this refractory problem. This paper will describe a cross-sector collaborative effort in Western North Carolina that has produced unexpected fruit since its start in 2010, discuss themes that supported success, and identify future essential work.

Shall we dance? - The effect of information presentations on negotiation processes and outcomes.

The way information is presented influences human decision making and is consequently highly relevant to electronically supported negotiations. The present study analyzes in a controlled laboratory experiment how information presentation in three alternative formats (table, history graph and dance graph) influences the negotiators' behavior and negotiation outcomes. The results show that graphical information presentation supports integrative behavior and the use of non-compensatory strategies.

A comparison of representations for discrete multi-criteria decision problems.

Discrete multi-criteria decision problems with numerous Pareto-efficient solution candidates place a significant cognitive burden on the decision maker. An interactive, aspiration-based search process that iteratively progresses toward the most preferred solution can alleviate this task. In this paper, we study three ways of representing such problems in a DSS, and compare them in a laboratory experiment using subjective and objective measures of the decision process as well as solution quality and problem understanding.

Understanding diabetes routines: a professional training exercise.

As part of the continuing education programs conducted at the Washington University Diabetes Research and Training Center, 65 health professionals participated in a 4-day simulation exercise which required them to adhere to a diabetic regimen. Instructions covered injections, urine testing, recording results, and calculating and following a meal plan. Evaluation of the simulation focused on the degree of participant adherence to each component, the problems they encountered, and how the experience influenced their patient/clinician interaction.