Studies on regional-level variations or deficiencies in harm reduction provision have taken place in settings such as Canada and the United States. These are often characterized by the urban/rural divide and low population density as the primary factors behind lack of service provision [47,52,53,...
I mean we have [nurse practitioners] and the balance of the prescribers are [nurse practitioners], but there's a couple of physicians on board as well, and we have nurses and we have harm reduction workers from all over the city which really allows us to get a broader picture of what...
Mental health professionals in these settings may also consider how best to engage and train other allied health professionals such as nurses, and community health workers in the delivery of suicide prevention interventions or components of these interventions. Participants were recruited from a variety ...
Much of his work and advocacy to this point has been about “harm reduction” and enabling vulnerable addicts to stay exactly as they are, mired in self-destruction and despair. But he was doing it — as all harm reductionists claim — to “save lives.” One could have easily mistaken E...
March 2016: Harvard / Brigham & Women's Hospital ScDs published an article (in the journal 'Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes') based on 'Nurses' Health Study II' data,associating endometriosis with an increased risk of coronary heart disease- however Lupron/GnRHa use wasNOT factore...
Building on this foundation, we then developed qualitative interview protocols for patients and staff members to explore the ways harm reduction was applied in the clinic. We conducted one-on-one interviews with 23 patients and 17 clinic staff, including physicians, nurses, a nurse practitioner, a...
Over the past five years there has been exponential expansion of interest in tobacco harm reduction (THR), with a concomitant increase in the number of published studies. The purpose of this manuscript is to review and analyze influential contributions t
Ideally, these processes should be done by trained clinicians, with multidisciplinary involvement (e.g., pharmacists, nurses, and physicians). 2.7 Assessment of Risk of Bias The Quality Assessment Tool for Observational Cohort and Cross-Sectional Studies (QATOCCS) [34] was used to ...