Psychiatric Services

Publication date: 01 February 2019

Publication date: 24 October 2018

Objective: To assess missed opportunities for reducing fatal opioid overdoses, characteristics of decedents by opioid overdose with and without problematic opioid use who received health care services within one year of death were examined. Methods: Of 157 ...

Publication date: 17 December 2018

Objective: Goals were to determine the prevalence of benzodiazepine use (as prescribed and misuse), characterize misuse, and examine variation by age. Methods: A cross-sectional analysis was conducted of 2015 and 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health ...

Publication date: 20 November 2018

Objective: The streaming series 13 Reasons Why generated controversy because of its depiction of teen suicide and concerns about its impact on vulnerable youths. This study examined exposure to and patterns of engagement with the show and the show’s ...

Publication date: 10 December 2018

Objective: Malingering is commonly encountered in the psychiatric emergency department, yet little is known about its prevalence, objectives, or effect on patient management. This study analyzed characteristics of malingering and patient disposition in a ...

Publication date: 10 December 2018

Objective: Mental health concerns are common in pediatric primary care, but practitioners report low levels of comfort managing them. A primary care intervention addressing organizational and individual factors was developed to improve the management of ...

Publication date: 10 December 2018

Objective: The authors examined electronic medical record (EMR) outpatient data to determine whether African Americans with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder were more likely than non-Latino whites to screen positive for major depression. Methods: ...

Publication date: 30 October 2018

Objective: Measurement-based care using patient-reported outcome measures has been shown to improve treatment outcomes for patients with mental illness. Despite wide availability of validated measures, measurement-based care is seldom used in clinical ...

Publication date: 20 November 2018

Objective: This study examined organizational variability of process-of-care and depression outcomes at eight community health centers (CHCs) in the years following implementation of collaborative care (CC) for depression. Methods: The authors used 8 years ...

Publication date: 10 December 2018

Objectives: The primary objective of the study was to determine whether the Monitoring Outcomes of Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy (MOPHAR) program improved somatic monitoring practices at an outpatient clinic for bipolar disorders in the Netherlands. The ...

Publication date: 20 November 2018

The role and training needs of client-facing administrative staff in mental health settings is an underidentified topic in the literature. Although interactions between the medical office staff and clients are not typically defined as therapeutic, ...

Publication date: 20 November 2018

Publication date: 24 October 2018

The Arctic Council, a collaborative forum among governments and Arctic communities, has highlighted the problem of suicide and potential solutions. The mental health initiative during the United States chairmanship, Reducing the Incidence of Suicide in ...

Publication date: 05 November 2018

This column presents results of a pay-for-performance (P4P) initiative to reduce psychiatric inpatient length of stay for Medicaid-covered youths at eight hospitals in Connecticut in 2008 (N=715), 2009 (N=1,408), and 2010 (N=782). Compared with the 2007 ...

Publication date: 30 November 2018

The Military Family Wellness Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center provides cost-free, confidential mental health services to military service members, veterans, and their families in a nongovernmental setting, with an emphasis on addressing ...