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...
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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
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
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...
Defining and operationalizing ‘rural’ in the context of gender-based violence
Millan AbiNader of the School of Social Policy & Practice authored a book chapter on the definition and operationalization of rurality within the context of gender-based violence. "Research on gender-based violence (GBV) across place has consistently demonstrated...
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
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...
“It Makes you Want to Go Out and Change the World”: Shifts in Victim Advocates’ Perspectives Following the Intimate Partner Homicide of a Client
Research from Millan AbiNader explores the shifts in victim advocates’ perspectives following the intimate partner homicide of a client, including the opportunity for "meaning making" to cope and prevent burnout.
Addressing burnout in community-based substance use disorder healthcare providers
A team including Zack Meisel, Gina South, and Shoshana Aronowitz have shone a light on burnout in substance use disorder (SUD) care providers that work outside of the traditional health care setting, suggesting an improved framework is necessary to address burnout in...
Low-pill opioid prescriptions increase with feedback intervention, but disparities persist
A study from Kit Delgado and colleagues demonstrates that combined individual audit and peer comparison feedback can increase the frequency of low-pill opioid prescriptions in the emergency department. However, the intervention does not affect prescribing disparities...
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
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...