LAURA H. CYPHERS

This Medical News article discusses a trend of gabapentin misuse and harms, including fatal overdoses.
Source: JAMA Online First

This Arts and Medicine feature describes use of improvisational theater techniques to train health care workers to have persuasive and respectful conversations with vaccine-hesitant patients about accepting COVID-19 vaccination.
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This retrospective study examines trends in urinary catheter use in US emergency departments between 2002 and 2019.
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The Letter to the Editor titled “Review of Antiseizure Medications for Adults With Epilepsy,” published in the August 16, 2022, issue of JAMA, included an error in the spelling of the first author’s first name. The author byline has been corrected online and now lists Chaudry Nasir Majeed as the first author.
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This study uses electronic health record data to evaluate medical record closure outcomes before and after the use of medical scribes at a large academic medical center.
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This Medical News feature explores the past and present of proteomics.
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This Medical News article discusses recent European reports of asymptomatic monkeypox virus infections.
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This study assesses health and quality of life outcomes among long-term residents of skilled nursing facilities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic before vaccines were available.
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On January 18, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the US. Since then, in only 2.5 years, the global pandemic has resulted in 588 757 628 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 6 433 794 deaths (as of August 8, 2022). While the world is (once again) gradually reopening, the lingering social and economic effects of the pandemic are clearly felt, with national lockdowns and school closures still ongoing in 23 countries. Furthermore, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently forecasted a new wave of COVID-19, predicted to peak in the autumn and winter months, suggesting the potential need to reinstate disruptive measures in the northern hemisphere.
Source: JAMA Online First

This cross-sectional study examines the ability of school-aged children, aged 4 to 14 years, to self-collect nasal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 testing after hearing and seeing simple instructions compared with collection by health care workers.
Source: JAMA Online First