Knowledge of capacity and use of health information technology is essential in developing a secure interoperable statewide electronic health network. The purpose of this research was to conduct a comprehensive state-wide assessment of multiple healthcare providers and translate the data through geospatial mapping into a model to guide the development of RHIOs and HIEs. This research reflects the most comprehensive e-Health adoption survey to date for state healthcare decision makers in the extant literature.
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Community Ment Health J
January 2025
School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Black Americans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder have less access to mental healthcare compared to White Americans. Many factors contribute to this inequity, including broader disparities within the healthcare system driven by systemic racism, and an underutilization of mental health services by Black Americans due to provider bias and stigma around mental health care. These disparities are rooted in a racist historical context of exclusion and abuse of the Black community by the White psychiatric establishment, and a perpetration of further trauma on Black clients, a context that is largely missing from traditional mental health education and literature on Black mental health today.
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January 2025
Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.
The majority of patients with cannabis use disorder (CUD) regularly take medication. Cannabinoids influence metabolism of some commonly prescribed drugs. However, little is known about the characteristics and frequency of potential cannabis-drug (CDIs) and drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in patients with CUD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSupport Care Cancer
January 2025
Nursing Department, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, No. 138 Tongzipo Road, Yuelu District, Hexi District, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Background: Informal caregivers may face challenges, especially during the pre-transplant phase. We have learned about the challenges faced by informal caregivers during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; there is a lack of consensus about the challenges faced by them before transplantation. We identified the psychosocial well-being of informal caregivers to patients before hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
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January 2025
Faculty of Nursing, Al Al-Bayt University, Mafraq, Jordan.
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate pain characteristics, opioid misuse prevalence, and the relationship between healthliteracy and pain catastrophising in patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD).
Design: This was a cross-sectional study.
Methods: Data were collected from patients with SCD in Oman.
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