Publications by authors named "Matthew D Willis"
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- The study analyzed emergency medical services (EMS) calls in Marin County, California, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on call volume, patient care refusals, and call severity.
- Before the pandemic, transported patients were mostly female and elderly, whereas during the pandemic, the demographics shifted to more male patients aged 35-64.
- Following the first stay-at-home order, there was a significant drop in EMS call volume, especially for children and older adults, along with an increase in the prioritization of severe cases and changes in patient care dynamics.
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- The study investigates factors influencing urgent health-care use in families with children diagnosed with pediatric psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES), a condition that imposes a heavy burden on health services.
- Researchers analyzed data from 47 children with PNES and 25 sibling controls, focusing on how child coping styles and parental bonding styles affect emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
- Findings suggest that higher health-care use correlates with specific coping strategies and negative parental bonding perceptions, indicating that improving coping skills and parental responses may help reduce urgent health-care needs in these families.
Co-occurring Medical Illnesses in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Updates and Treatment Considerations.
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am
January 2018
Medical Considerations in Children and Adolescents with Eating Disorders.
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am
January 2018
Eating disorders are a group of psychiatric disorders with potentially fatal medical complications. Early integrated care including the family as well as pediatric medicine, nutrition, psychology and psychiatry is critical for improving prognosis and limiting negative outcomes. Mental health services are a critical component of treatment; timely weight restoration maximizes efficacy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To examine the risk factors for internalizing (anxiety, depression) and posttraumatic stress (PTSD) disorders, somatization, and anxiety sensitivity (AS) in youth with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES).
Methods: 55 probands with PNES and 35 siblings, aged 8-18 years, underwent a psychiatric interview, cognitive and language testing, and completed somatization and AS questionnaires. Parents provided the subjects' medical, psychiatric, family, and adversity history information.
Background: Tuberculosis transmission in health care settings represents a major public health problem. In 2010, national airborne infection control (AIC) guidelines were adopted in India. These guidelines included specific policies for TB prevention and control in health care settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute Psychosis in Two Patients with Bartter Syndrome.
J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol
December 2016
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- The study investigates psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) in youth, focusing on the unique biopsychosocial risk factors that distinguish affected individuals from their siblings.
- The research involved 55 diagnosed PNES youths and 35 sibling controls, utilizing video EEGs, psychiatric assessments, and various self-reports to gather data.
- Results revealed that PNES youths had significantly more medical, neurological, and psychiatric issues, as well as higher anxiety sensitivity and traumatic experiences, pointing to specific vulnerabilities associated with PNES.
Background: Although seasonal variation in tuberculosis incidence has been described in several recent studies, the mechanism underlying this seasonality remains unknown. Seasonality of tuberculosis disease may indicate the presence of season-specific risk factors that could potentially be controlled if they were better understood. We conducted this study to determine whether tuberculosis is seasonal in the United States and to describe patterns of seasonality in specific populations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Drug rash, eosinophilia, and systemic symptoms syndrome is a type of drug hypersensitivity reaction characterized by the clinical triad of skin eruption, fever, and internal organ involvement. Drug rash, eosinophilia, and systemic symptoms syndrome has rarely been reported in association with vancomycin or in the pediatric population. There have only been four pediatric case reports of drug rash, eosinophilia, and systemic symptoms syndrome and three cases of drug rash, eosinophilia, and systemic symptoms syndrome involving vancomycin published in the English literature to date.
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