Court Outcomes Website to Launch

Court outcomes website to launch
Through a state grant in 2011, the Preventing Alcohol-Related Crashes group began studying issues of concern in the community, including factors that might play in to an unusually high number of alcohol-related crashes, said Angela Hagaman, a member of … Read more on Watauga Democrat

L2FU Searches for Missing Patients Bear Fruit in Clinical Trials
Such research studies are needed to critically evaluate the outcome of a treatment intervention However, in long-term studies it is easy for patients to stop participating and become 'lost-to-follow-up.' When patients become "lost" during a clinical … Read more on SYS-CON Media (press release)

Cognitive Therapy Eases Unfounded Health Fears
This has included health anxiety, but previous studies have involved relatively intensive treatments delivered by specialist professionals, which could not realistically be supported in routine care. In the current study, Tyrer and colleagues tested a … Read more on MedPage Today

Spinal cord stimulators: Living pain free
The problem was that the devices were not MRI safe, until now. “It is a breakthrough, a significant … Some of them would have injections and obviously with some medications, such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants in patients … Read more on WWSB ABC 7

Podcast 12: Quality Improvement Strategies and Evaluation for Addiction Treatment Programs
Podcast 12, Quality Improvement Strategies and Evaluation for Addiction Treatment Programs, highlights the differences between effectiveness, performance and…