Understanding MAT access in the context of unused MAT capacity in the United States: when increasing rural MAT capacity is not enough.

Background: Section 1262 Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 eliminates the federal DATA waiver registration requirement to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD), along with patient limits, perhaps as a way to increase provider capacity to prescribe buprenorphine. Understanding the factors that influence provider capacity, patient access, and whether community need for MAT is met could inform how to capitalize on DATA waiver eliminations in the United States.

Methods: This observational study utilized required reporting from two cohorts of the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP).

DEVELOPING A PRACTICE-DRIVEN TAXONOMY OF IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES FOR HIV PREVENTION.

Background: Effective implementation of evidence-based HIV prevention interventions continues to be a challenge in the United States, and the field is increasingly turning to implementation science for solutions. As such, it is critical to expand the current implementation science vocabulary - and its taxonomy of implementation strategies - to increase its relevance and utility for front-line implementers.

Setting: Community-based health centers providing HIV prevention services in the Southeastern US.

The Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) Medical Records Abstraction Project: A Resource for Research on Biological, Psychosocial and Behavioral Factors on the Aging Brain and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.

Background: Adult Changes in Thought (ACT), a prospective cohort study, enrolls older adult members of Kaiser Permanente Washington. We describe an ambitious project to abstract medical records facilitating epidemiological investigation.

Methods: Abstracted data include medications; laboratory results; women's health; blood pressure; physical injuries; cardiovascular, neurological, psychiatric and other medical conditions.

Leveraging international stakeholders' experiences with oral PrEP costs to accelerate implementation of the monthly dapivirine vaginal ring: A qualitative study.

Background: Costing and financing systematic implementation are recognized barriers to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention. In the absence of empiric implementation and economic data, perspectives from international stakeholders involved in developing and supporting daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) policy, and programs can provide critical insights for developing costed plans to support and accelerate the rollout of novel long-acting PrEP (LA-PrEP) methods, such as the monthly dapivirine vaginal ring (PrEP ring).

Methods: We interviewed stakeholders from purposively selected international organizations about anticipated PrEP-ring implementation costs, evidence gaps and key process steps for developing a costed rollout plan template (CRPT).

Religious Characteristics of Nurses Who Refer Patients to Chaplains at a Catholic Hospital in the Northwestern USA.

The purpose of this study was to assess the association between nurse religiosity and decision to consult spiritual care services at a hospital in the western USA. An anonymous survey was distributed to assess nurses' reports of whether they would request spiritual care services across different scenarios. Out of 171 nurses approached to participate in this survey, fifty-one nurses completed the survey and half of respondents considered themselves religious.