Low frequency of allergy referral for penicillin allergy evaluation in an urban Boston primary care setting.

Background: A key strategy to combat the public health crisis of antimicrobial resistance is to use appropriate antibiotics, which is difficult in patients with a penicillin allergy label.

Objective: Our aim was to investigate racial and ethnic differences related to penicillin allergy labeling and referral to allergy/immunology in primary care.

Methods: This was a retrospective study of Tufts Medical Center's Boston-based primary care patients in 2019.

Development of a COVID-19-Related Anti-Asian Tweet Data Set: Quantitative Study.

Background: Since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals of Asian descent (colloquial usage prevalent in North America, where "Asian" is used to refer to people from East Asia, particularly China) have been the subject of stigma and hate speech in both offline and online communities. One of the major venues for encountering such unfair attacks is social networks, such as Twitter. As the research community seeks to understand, analyze, and implement detection techniques, high-quality data sets are becoming immensely important.

Primary Care Population Management for COVID-19 Patients.

Background: Most patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 have mild to moderate symptoms manageable at home; however, up to 20% develop severe illness requiring additional support. Primary care practices performing population management can use these tools to remotely assess and manage COVID-19 patients and identify those needing additional medical support before becoming critically ill.

Aim: We developed an innovative population management approach for managing COVID-19 patients remotely.

A multicomponent intervention to improve adherence to opioid prescribing and monitoring guidelines in primary care.

Objective: Guidelines for appropriate management of chronic opioid therapy are underutilized by primary care physicians (PCPs). The authors hypothesized that developing a multicomponent, team-based opioid management system with electronic health record (EHR) support would allow our clinicians to improve adherence to chronic opioid prescribing and monitoring guidelines.

Design: This was a retrospective pre-post study.

Systemic obstacles to battered women's participation in the judicial system: when will the status quo change?

The Canadian government has introduced numerous policies, guidelines, and mandates at the federal and provincial levels that recognize woman abuse as a serious social problem and violation of the law. Nonetheless, recent feminist research continues to expose laws and practices that fail woman abuse victims. The present study examined the experiences of women victims in domestic violence cases and the barriers they faced in dealing with the police, the courts, and social service agencies.