Publications by authors named "R J Gerson"
Article Synopsis
- Lung cancer remains the top cause of cancer-related deaths globally, with this study focusing on the impacts of stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in Mexico's healthcare system.
- The research involved 188 patients diagnosed with stage IV NSCLC, analyzing treatments and outcomes at various healthcare centers while also assessing economic factors like treatment costs and productivity losses among patients and caregivers.
- Findings indicated high treatment costs, with public sector costs averaging MXN1,001,579 per patient and private sector costs around MXN2,140,604, alongside significant productivity losses for both patients (up to 335 days/year) and caregivers (13-30 days/year).
Re-Imagining Child Welfare to Support Children and Families.
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am
July 2024
Children and adolescents in foster care include many of the most severely traumatized victims of child abuse and neglect. They deserve the best possible care and treatment, yet their outcomes remain poor. The persistence of poor outcomes for youth in foster care reflects challenges of psychiatric diagnostic formulation and of service system design/access, both areas in which child and adolescent psychiatrists have a key role to improve care and outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStrengthening Support for Community Mental Health Programs Through Partnership and Collective Impact.
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am
July 2024
Effective partnerships can profoundly impact outcomes for youth with behavioral health concerns. Partnerships occur at multiple levels - at the individual, organizational, state, and national levels. The Systems of Care (SOC) framework helps to conceptualize and articulate the skills necessary for forming partnerships in youth's mental health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Agitation in children and adolescents in the emergency department (ED) can be dangerous and distressing for patients, family and staff. We present consensus guidelines for management of agitation among pediatric patients in the ED, including non-pharmacologic methods and the use of immediate and as-needed medications.
Methods: Using the Delphi method of consensus, a workgroup comprised of 17 experts in emergency child and adolescent psychiatry and psychopharmacology from the the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Emergency Child Psychiatry Committee sought to create consensus guidelines for the management of acute agitation in children and adolescents in the ED.