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...
ED Nurse Screening, Clinician Prompts Improve OUD Treatment

ED Nurse Screening, Clinician Prompts Improve OUD Treatment

Healthcare Innovation featured the Warm Handoff project. “Our findings indicate that the screening and prompts help clinicians to recognize patients and increasingly initiate important care for them,” says Maggie Lowenstein. “There is a huge group now eligible to...
100th Mayor: Restoring Safety Forum

100th Mayor: Restoring Safety Forum

Elinore Kaufman serves as one of the moderators in the Restoring Safety Forum, posing questions to Philadelphia mayoral candidates about their plans to address public safety and gun violence. You can watch a recording of the event from Billy Penn.
Story slam on firearm injury and prevention

Story slam on firearm injury and prevention

Elinore Kaufman and Rodney Babb, of the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program, participated in the Story Slam focusing on firearm injury and prevention as a public health issue, co-hosted by Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians (ACP) and...
Denise Johnson recognized as Difference Maker

Denise Johnson recognized as Difference Maker

Denise Johnson was featured in Penn Today and named a difference maker in the Penn Medicine News for her role as the bridge between the street outreach Penn Community Violence Prevention program and the hospital-based Penn Trauma Violence Recovery...
Bureaucratic burdens for buprenorphine

Reducing barriers to care for opioid use disorder

Maggie Lowenstein was featured in two recent articles related to improved access to opioid care. The LDI blog post discusses reducing barriers to care and the WHYY article reviews the potential of over-the-counter naloxone, an overdose reversal medication.