Exploring Diet-Based Treatments for Atrial Fibrillation: Patient Empowerment and Citizen Science as a Model for Quality-of-Life-Centered Solutions.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common heart rhythm disorder in the Western world. Between the years 2010 and 2019, the global prevalence of AF rose from 33.5 million to 59 million, highlighting the importance of developing equitable treatments for patients.

Mismatched opioid prescription in patients discharged after neurological surgeries: a retrospective cohort study.

Although postsurgical overprescription has been well-studied, postsurgical opioid underprescription remains largely overlooked. This retrospective cohort study was to investigate the extent of discharge opioid overprescription and underprescription in patients after neurological surgeries. Six thousand nine hundred forty-nine adult opioid-naive patients who underwent inpatient neurosurgical procedures at the University of California San Francisco were included.

Inpatient administration of opioids and risk for post-operative ileus in older adults.

Objective: Post-operative ileus (POI) is a common and potentially serious complication after surgery. We assessed the incidence and identified predictors of POI in older surgical patients.

Design: A retrospective observational study.

Hospital admission medication reconciliation in high-risk prescription opioid users.

Background: No studies have assessed the clinical significance of medication reconciliation in surgical patients using high-risk extended-release/long-acting (ER/LA) opioid medications.

Objectives: We assessed differences in the perioperative use of opioid analgesics in patients who underwent medication reconciliation upon hospital admission compared to patients who did not and identified predictors of perioperative use of opioids.

Methods: Retrospective observational quasi-experimental study including adult non-cancer patients who underwent elective surgery at UCSF Medical Center in the period January 2017 through December 2019 and received at least one opioid analgesic during surgical hospitalization.

Pain Management for Dental Medicine in 2021: Opioids, Coronavirus and Beyond.

Over the past year our attention has inevitably been on the coronavirus pandemic, the health and welfare of our families, patients, and office staffs as well as the re-opening of our dental practices. In addition, the opioid crisis continues, is very likely to worsen as a result of the pandemic and continues to be a challenge to Dentistry. National public health issues and healthcare disparities continue and have created a global concern for providing evidence-based, adequate pain management in the dental setting.