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Anchor lead: Can a community peer help people avoid hospitalization? Elizabeth Tracey reports Do you know what a community health worker is? This is someone from the neighborhood who helps a person with chronic illness manage their social issues, such …
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Anchor lead: A new series puts the social aspects of health front and center, Elizabeth Tracey reports What are social determinants of health? A new series in the New England Journal of Medicine examines how things like education, neighborhoods, income …
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Anchor lead: Using several strategies helps people reduce the likelihood they will develop delirium while in the ICU, Elizabeth Tracey reports Pain must be managed in those who are critically ill, a bundle of strategies called A-F for patient care …
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Anchor lead: How can we help people addicted to drugs without adequate numbers of providers? Elizabeth Tracey reports The journal Science has just reported that our problem with drug overdose deaths actually began in 1979, and has been rising steadily …
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Anchor lead: Opioids are just the latest in a long trend of escalating drug overdoses, Elizabeth Tracey reports Everyone knows opioids, including prescription drugs, heroin and fentanyl are the culprits when it comes to drug overdoses, right? Not so fast, …
