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Bureaucratic burdens for buprenorphine

Bureaucratic burdens for buprenorphine

Shoshana Aronowitz of the School of Nursing, Zack Meisel of the Perelman School of Medicine, and colleagues assessed the various types of prior authorization requirements for Medicaid-covered buprenorphine treatment across the 50 states, which present barriers to...

Racial Disparities in Care for Opioid Use Disorder

Racial Disparities in Care for Opioid Use Disorder

Gina South of the Perelman School of Medicine, Sara Jacoby of the School of Nursing, and colleagues describe the "racial empathy gap" in care for opioid use disorder, wherein Black patients are left wanting compassionate and dignified care when seeking OUD treatment,...

Religiosity & mental health seeking behaviors among U.S. adults

Religiosity & mental health seeking behaviors among U.S. adults

Cassis Boateng of the School of Nursing and colleagues assessed how religiosity relates to health seeking behaviors for mental health in a recent publication. Related to the topic of religiosity, Cassis presented at SAVIR 2023 about the role of spirituality in firearm...

Protecting children with correct restraint use in the car

Protecting children with correct restraint use in the car

A team of investigators, including Allison Curry, from CHOP Center for Injury Research and Prevention and the Perelman School of Medicine found that caregivers from vulnerable populations demonstrated proper child restraint use if they engaged with a Child Passenger...

Assessing short-term neurological effects of soccer headers

Assessing short-term neurological effects of soccer headers

Kristy Arbogast and a team of CHOP Center for Injury Research and Prevention investigators assessed the short-term neurological effects of "headers" and head kinematics using an instrumented mouthguard in youth athletes. "There were no neurophysiological deficits for...

Breaking barriers to opioid use disorder care

Breaking barriers to opioid use disorder care

A team including Maggie Lowenstein of the Perelman School of Medicine and Shoshana Aronowitz of the School of Nursing interviewed patients and identified three facilitators for a low-barrier treatment model for opioid use disorder. Low-barrier treatment is a...

Varying definitions of recovery for concussion

Varying definitions of recovery for concussion

A recent paper led by Dan Corwin, with Kate McDonald, Kristy Arbogast, and other CHOP colleagues, suggests there is wide variability in the proportion of youth considered to be "recovered" following concussion, depending on the definition of recovery.

Youth firearm injury and recovery

Youth firearm injury and recovery

Elinore Kaufman, Therese Richmond, and Katie Hoskins published a review for pediatric critical care clinicians on youth firearm injury, now the leading cause of death for youth in the United States. The article includes approaches for prevention and the improvement of...