Kwamesha Joseph

Physicians who receive direct pharmaceutical payments for opioid prescribing prescribe more opioids, especially hydrocodone and oxycodone.

Improving clinic capacity to respond to patients’ social needs may reduce primary care physician burnout.

Many patients with spontaneous coronary artery dissection, particularly those with depression and with spontaneous coronary artery dissection-related chest pain, also have a history of migraine.

For older men, hearing loss is associated with subjective cognitive function decline.

For patients with chronic pain (CP), both mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) improve physical functioning, pain intensity, and depression.

A pharmacist-led, postdischarge structured telephone follow-up intervention can reduce 30-day and 90-day readmission rates for polypharmacy patients.