NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There is a new epidemic of hepatitis C, HIV, and other infections among epidemic epidemiology, according to participants in a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Workshop.
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] -Action Step 1: all patients who are evaluated in medical settings for overdose, heart valve infections, blood poisoning, HIV, hepatitis C, and other serious infections should be screened for opioid use disorder Rapid Rapid Screening Dependence Screen
-Action Step 2: FDA-approved medication for the treatment of FDA-approved medication
-Action Step 3: hospitals should develop procedures that will ensure that patients get linked to community-based treatment after discharge.
-Action Step 4: hospitals, medical schools, physician assistant (PA) schools, nursing schools, and residency programs
-Action Step 5: access
Successful implementation of these actions steps to improve the treatment of healthcare professionals, the group writes in July 13th Annals of Internal Medicine.
"This is the biggest epidemic we have seen in this country, and we have the medications and the ability to fight this epidemic," Dr. Springer said. "The Ryan White CARE Act that" we are all clinicians and nurses, specialist physicians, physician assistants, and primary care physicians. "
"she said.
Dr. Yu-Hsiang Hsieh from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, who told us about these intersecting epidemics, told Reuters Health by email, "As an infectious disease and public health researcher in the emergency department. (ED) setting, in the past two years, EDs in Maryland overdoses, in addition to those who have died before arriving at the ED. "
" A call for selected federal Ryan White CARE Act would have greatly assisted state and local governments, and he said, "he said.
Videos and slides from the are available from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine at http://bit.ly/2NgjJZ9.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/2NeK3mC Annals of Internal Medicine, online July 13, 2018.
