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Scare tactics, ordinary consequences, and parental advice: the individualization of social problems in television anti-drug commercials
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
the implications of these frames. The causes of drug use, consequences of drug use, and strategies used to instill anti-drug attitudes and practices are explored. Television anti-drug PSAs rhetorically restructure drug use as an individualized social problem...
The Effects of Risk Stratifying Patients with the Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain (SOAPP-R) on Aberrant Drug-Taking Behavior in the Primary Care Population
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)
As the opioid epidemic continues to negatively affect morbidity and mortality in the United
States, providers must implement risk reduction strategies when prescribing opioids. Evidence
suggests that risk screening ...
Improving Identification of Adolescents at Risk for Substance Use Disorders
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends screening adolescent patients for drug and
alcohol use following a standardized process and utilizing a developmentally appropriate
screening tool. The purpose of the ...
Educational Care Binder to Improve Appointment Attendance After Prenatal Exposure to Methadone
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
early and initiate interventions prior to development of long-term complications. The purpose of this evidence-based project was to determine if an educational care binder improved adherence to specialty follow up appointments for infants prenatally...
Medication Reconciliation Strategies to Improve Medication Safety
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2024)
reconciliation processes in place. This quasi-experimental, single cohort, evidence-based practice quality improvement project aimed to determine if an evidence-based medication reconciliation intervention improved medication list accuracy and patient engagement...
Drugs help pass more ureteral stones
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
Prescribe tamsulosin (typically 0.4 mg daily) or nifedipine (typically 30 mg daily) for patients with lower ureteral calculi, to speed stone passage and to avoid surgical intervention. Stength of recommendation: A: ...
Association of weight with drug dosing guideline adherence in children hospitalized with asthma
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Background: Obesity can result in physiologic alterations that may be important to drug
disposition. Despite this, dosing recommendations for hospitalized children with obesity
remain limited, including drugs for asthma ...
An examination of the impact of parental drug use, family transition, and environmental conditions on adolescents' self-reported drug use, delinquency, and deviant behaviors
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-18)
Research has shown that youths reared in homes with parental drug use have a high risk of exhibiting maladaptive social behaviors encompassing delinquency, deviance, and criminality (Keller, Catalano, Haggerty, & Fleming, 2002; Denton & Kampe, 1994...
Medication Assisted Treatment and Psychosocial Therapy for Opioid Use Disorder at An Outpatient Substance Abuse Clinic
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2022)
Opioid addiction has a significant impact on individual and public health, as opioids continue to
be the primary substance implicated in fatal overdoses. In 2018, opioids were present in
approximately 70% of all drug ...
Effects of Education on Medication Adherence and Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Adults
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)
Hypertension affects many United States adults and is a modifiable risk factor of heart disease,
the leading cause of death in the United States. Low medication adherence rates are associated
with poor blood pressure ...
Explainable artificial intelligence for patient stratification and drug repositioning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
the inter- and intra-heterogeneity within a cancer type and among cancer types. Patients' phenotypic and genotypic data was utilized with a heterogeneous knowledge base because it gives a multi-view perspective for finding new indications for drugs outside...
Pentablock copolymers based controlled release formulations of small and macromolecules for ophthalmic applications
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)
Pentablock copolymers comprised of multi-polymer blocks such as polyethylene
glycol (PEG), polycaprolactone (PCL) and poly-lactide (PLA) were developed for
fabrication of nanoparticles and thermosensitive hydrogel ...
Improving Outcomes for Psychiatric Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: An Evidence Based Quality Initiative
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Patients who are prescribed second generation antipsychotic medications are vulnerable and at an
increased risk for developing metabolic syndrome (MetS). Metabolic syndrome is the
development of obesity, hyperlipidemia, ...
Effect of Patient Antibiotic Education on Provider Perceived Patient Expectation for Antibiotics
(2017)
Antibiotic resistance is a global concern that costs the world thousands of lives and the United
States billions of dollars annually in healthcare expenditures and missed work. One reason that
providers prescribe ...
How should you manage a depressed patient unresponsive to an SSRI?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2006)
The best approach among studied alternatives to manage a patient with treatment-resistant depression is not clear from the evidence. All of the options reviewed seem to have about a 25% to 30% success rate. Switching to other antidepressants...
Does stimulant therapy help adult ADHD?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2003)
Central nervous system stimulants improve symptoms of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults (strength of recommendation: B, based on an older, inconclusive systematic review, a lesser-quality systematic review, and several newer...
Decreasing Stress Through Education for Caregivers of Community-Dwelling Individuals with Dementia
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
People with dementia experience a decline in mental ability that interferes with daily life. The
behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia affect the majority of individuals suffering
from dementia and cause ...
The index of tobacco treatment quality: development of a tool to assess evidence-based treatment in a national sample of drug treatment facilities
(2013-03-15)
Abstract
Background
Quitting smoking improves health and drug use outcomes among people in treatment for substance abuse. The twofold purpose of this study is to describe tobacco treatment ...
The Opioid Epidemic and Community Education on Naloxone
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2024)
harm reduction measure that has improved outcomes in recognized opioid overdose situations. This single cohort quasi-experimental test-restest evidence-based practice intervention was developed to improve community perception regarding opioid overdose...
Perceptions of neighborhood social environment and drug dependence among incarcerated women and men: a cross-sectional analysis
(2012-09-10)
Abstract
Background
Perception of neighborhood social environment can influence an individual’s susceptibility to drug dependence. However, this has never been examined with a jailed ...