Young Adult Perspectives on Treatment Engagement and Family Communication During Psychosis.

Background: Fostering positive relationships with mental health professionals and involving family in treatment can reduce untreated psychosis duration and prevent dropout.

Aims: The present study explores the experiences of young adults with psychosis as they engage in mental health treatment and communicate with family caregivers. Describing their lived experiences would inform the clinical engagement process and pathways to clinical outcomes.

Validation of an ICD-Code-Based Case Definition for Psychotic Illness Across Three Health Systems.

Background And Hypothesis: Psychosis-associated diagnostic codes are increasingly being utilized as case definitions for electronic health record (EHR)-based algorithms to predict and detect psychosis. However, data on the validity of psychosis-related diagnostic codes is limited. We evaluated the positive predictive value (PPV) of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes for psychosis.

COVID-19 pandemic and emergency department visits for psychosis: Visit volume, restraint use, medication use, psychiatric hospitalization, and length of stay.

Background: Individuals with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder were at heightened risk for interruptions in psychiatric care during the coronavirus-19 (COVID 19) pandemic. There is limited work exploring the pandemic's impact on emergency department (ED) visit volume, use of restraint and parenteral medications, inpatient psychiatric (IP) hospitalization, and ED length of stay (LOS) among this population.

Methods: We retrospectively examined 2134 ED visits with a billing code for psychosis between March 1, 2019-February 28, 2021.

Validation of an ICD-code-based case definition for psychotic illness across three health systems.

Background And Hypothesis: Early detection of psychosis is critical for improving outcomes. Algorithms to predict or detect psychosis using electronic health record (EHR) data depend on the validity of the case definitions used, typically based on diagnostic codes. Data on the validity of psychosis-related diagnostic codes is limited.

Demographic predictors of lack of current mental health treatment among university students with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder.

Aim: To identify the demographic predictors of lack of current mental health (MH) treatment among university students with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD).

Methods: Adult university students with a self-identified diagnosis of an SSD (schizophreniform, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder) were identified from the 2019-2020 Healthy Minds Study survey. In this study, pertinent demographic factors included age, race/ethnicity, sex assigned at birth, gender identity, sexual orientation, parental education, financial stress, and employment.

Dismantling Racial Inequities in Early Psychosis Family Psychoeducation.

Families and caregivers play a critical role in the recovery of their loved ones with schizophrenia. Early intervention services, including family psychoeducation, can improve clinical outcomes and reduce stress for caregivers. Despite the benefits of family psychoeducation, Black caregivers engage in treatment at lower rates than do White caregivers.

Endoscopic Repair of Full-Thickness Gluteus Medius and Minimus Tears-Prospective Study With a Minimum 2-Year Follow-Up.

Purpose: To evaluate the short-term outcomes of endoscopic repair of full-thickness gluteus medius and minimus tendon tears with a minimum of 2-year follow-up and add to the paucity of literature on abductor tendon tears.

Methods: All patients who underwent endoscopic abductor tendon repair between December 2013 and August 2017 were prospectively evaluated. The inclusion criteria for this study were primary full-thickness gluteal tendon tears and at least 2-years of follow-up.

Mid-Term Results of Arthroscopic Synovectomy for Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis of the Hip.

Purpose: To analyze mid-term outcomes after arthroscopic synovectomy of both diffuse and nodular hip pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS).

Methods: This is a retrospective case series of patients that underwent hip arthroscopy for hip PVNS with a single senior surgeon between 2007 and 2016. Inclusion criteria were magnetic resonance imaging evidence, arthroscopic visualization, and/or histologic confirmation of PVNS; and a minimum of 3 years of follow-up.