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Examining Opioid Risk Mitigation Practices In A Rural Pain Management Clinic: A Quality Improvement Project, Stanley W. Hatcher

Doctors of Nursing Practice (DNP) Final Projects, 2020-current

Many Americans are dependent on or misuse prescription opioids. Increasing opioid misuse and opioid use disorder rates have led to record opioid-related deaths in recent years. Provider prescribing practices are one part of the problem. Evidence indicates that prescribers should assess for risks related to substance misuse and abuse in high-risk populations, such as patients on long-term opioid therapy. By evaluating risk level, the provider will have additional information to guide treatment decisions and a baseline for assessing future changes in risk status. Identifying high-risk patients is a first step in promoting quality care for this population. This project used …

Breakthroughs In Hormonal Male Contraception, Alexander Patton, Seth Vann

Physician Assistant Capstones, 2020-current

Objective: Assess the efficacy of a nestorone plus testosterone gel at suppressing progestin levels and spermatogenesis.

Design: Systematic literature review.

Methods: Searches were done in PubMed and Dartmouth library using the terms nestorone, randomized control trial, human, and male. Limits used while searching included published in the last 10 years, randomized control trials, and English.

Results: Using the search criteria the following three studies were found that met the inclusion/exclusion criteria of this study: Ilani et al, Zitzmann et al, and Anawalt et al. All three studies were found on PubMed and reference the Ilani et al study.

Conclusion: Nestorone …

Stereo Hearing With Unilateral Bone Conduction Amplification, Megan Crouse

Dissertations, 2020-current

Abstract

Conductive hearing loss results when the neural integrity of the auditory system is healthy, but sound is prevented from reaching the cochlea in its entirety. Unilateral Congenital Aural Atresia (UCAA) is a birth defect in which there is no external ear canal, resulting in the reduction of sound able to reach the middle ear. Two primary options for correcting this conductive hearing loss are canalplasty or a bone anchored hearing device (BAHD). We want to compare the benefit level from these options, specifically in two conditions: sound localization and the ability to detect speech from one ear while there …