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Prescription Opioids: A Band-Aid For Chronic Low Back Pain, Rebekah Dunn
Prescription Opioids: A Band-Aid For Chronic Low Back Pain, Rebekah Dunn
Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters
Pain is one of the most common reasons patients seek medical care in the outpatient clinic and emergency department setting.
• In the last decade, per the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), prescription drug abuse and overdose, specifically opioids, has become the leading cause of injury and deaths in the United States.
• “Opioids—primarily prescription pain relievers and heroin—are the main driver of overdose deaths and were involved in 28,647 deaths in 2014…opioid overdoses have quadrupled (an increase of 200%) since 2000” (Rudd et al. 2016).
• In 2016 the CDC established guidelines of clinical practice regarding management of …
Language Concordance: Overcoming Language Barriers, Pamela Flavin-Lee
Language Concordance: Overcoming Language Barriers, Pamela Flavin-Lee
Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters
• Language discordance is a growing problem facing health care today. Communication barriers can be cultural or language based and are commonly cited as a major contributor to poor patient compliance and health outcomes.
• This research project seeks to identify promising developments aimed at overcoming language discordance through analysis of different translation implementation methods and correlating these with health outcomes.