A self-management program tailored to individuals with #HIV significantly reduced the impact and severity of chronic #pain #healthcare | JAMA Internal Medicine Katie Fitzgerald Jones PhD, ACHPN,CARN-AP 🔗: healio.com/news/primary-c…

Thanks Healio for featuring our work published in JAMA Internal Medicine Ample credit to study PI: Jessica Merlin And our IDT team Jane Liebschutz (she/her) Dustin Long Pitt Challenges in Managing & Preventing Pain VA Research

Primary care providers' involvement in opioid prescribing remains high in #HeadAndNeckCancer survivorship. Safety interventions should target primary care, as is typical with non-cancer opioid reduction efforts. acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cn… OncoAlert Yael Schenker Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

We talk about opioid misuse all the time in cancer but… HELLO #hapc & #oncology don’t forget about 🍷🍻🥂🍺🥃🍸🍾🍹 New 📝 JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine⁩ w ⁦Devon Check⁩ ⁦Jessica Merlin⁩ link.springer.com/article/10.100…

#MondayResearchMinute Check out this publication by Laura Petrillo 🗽! Patient and Caregiver Experience With the Hope and Prognostic Uncertainty of Immunotherapy: A Qualitative Study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39038253/ #prognosticuncertainty #immunotherapy #cancer #nsclc

It was terrific to listen to ⁦Ben Seligman, MD, PhD⁩ today ⁦VA Boston HC⁩ Twitter handle on brand- his research on accelerating aging (a metric based on residuals) was interesting & easy to understand even for me who rarely remembers things about RNA. nextavenue.org/this-is-a-terr…

CHAMPP Director Jessica Merlin is quoted in this article from ACS Journal Cancer about the new ASCO guideline on the use of cannabis use in adults with cancer. acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cn…

Congratulations to CSON alum and clinical preceptor Laura McNamara for becoming a VA Boston HC DAISY Award Honoree! Learn more about the fantastic work being done by the DAISY Foundation here ➡️ daisyfoundation.org DAISY Foundation, #DAISYAward, #nurses

Implementation of the Age-Friendly Healthcare System in skilled nursing facilities can lead to important clinical and quality benefits for patients. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

I think we’re finally learning and acknowledging that SL naloxone IS absorbed to varying extents and can cause real, treatment-limiting adverse effects. Don’t let that be a barrier to life-saving treatment! Bupe mono is safe and effective for most patients! 🚨New case report:

Take a look at this fascinating #PapersoftheWeek pick from JAMA Internal Medicine and Katie Fitzgerald Jones PhD, ACHPN,CARN-AP et al. about the efficacy of a pain self-management intervention tailored to people with HIV bit.ly/3WdpeND #PRF

"A patients way of coping isnt “good” or “bad”- its simply the patients best in a particular moment with the resources at hand. Acceptance isnt better than denial; humor isnt better than anger; finding meaning isnt better than renouncing all meaning" nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

We got IASP paper of the week!!!!! Katie Fitzgerald Jones PhD, ACHPN,CARN-AP Pitt General Internal Medicine

In a randomized controlled trial for chronic pain in persons with HIV, a pain self-management intervention (combining group & 1-to-1 sessions) led to improvements in pain lasting 3 months. I am proud to know the PI and to have seen this work begin. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Non pharmacologic nurse-led behavioral intervention in #LungCancer - improved dyspnea. Journal of Clinical Oncology ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JC…

.Devon Check, Katie Fitzgerald Jones PhD, ACHPN,CARN-AP, Jessica Merlin, + more reveal significant rates of #SubstanceMisuse among #CancerSurvivors, especially alcohol misuse, with highest rates in cervical & head & neck cancer survivors. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

YAAAAAAYYYYYYY Frailty in Older Adults | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder—An Essential Medical Treatment | Substance Use and Addiction Medicine | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network ⁦JAMA Internal Medicine⁩ ⁦Yale School of Medicine⁩ ⁦Yale Program in Addiction Medicine⁩ jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

How should frailty be measured in epi? It may not matter - in ~200,000 MVP participants, we used an eFI, CGA-FI, and modified Fried (SOF): any frailty increased CVD risk, even in Vets <60. Congrats Drs. Saadia Qazi, Ben Seligman, MD, PhD, Sarah Preis! VA Research ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

Great paper led by Don Sullivan,MD,MA,MCR!