The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the past two months turned over 780,000 “free text” entries from V-safe, the agency’s vaccine-safety monitoring system, under a January order by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Freedom Coal...
Tracking –Prescription monitoring, intervention impact, and disease resistance patterns need to be tracked, Dr. Srinivasan said. Outcome measures, process measures of adherence to treatment guidelines and recommendations should be tracked and reported; hospitals report data to CDC’s National Healthcare ...
or having insurance coverage for gender-affirming hormones, were less likely to use nonprescription treatment. But those who experienced homelessness or had to exchange sex for money or drugs were more likely. Younger people, ages 18-29, were also more likely to use nonprescription ...
Editorial: "Bloodstream Infection Outbreaks Related to Opioid-Diverting Health Care Workers: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Prevention and Detection Programs," by Keith H. Berge, MD, and William L. Lanier, MD.dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2014.04.010 CDC Injection Safety/Drug Diversion:www.cdc.gov/...
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or chronic pain patients within one to four weeks of starting the therapy, the guidelines recommend, and for any pain patient, when prescribing initial opioid therapy, clinicians should review the patient’s history of controlled substance prescriptions using state prescription drug monitoring programs....