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About Insight Insight provides an in-depth look at diflucan costo health care issues in and affecting California.Have a story suggestion?. Let diflucan costo us know. Doris Hutchinson wanted to use money from the sale of her late mother’s house to help her grandchildren go to college.Then she learned the University of Virginia Health System was taking $38,000 of the proceeds because a 13-year-old medical bill owed by her deceased brother had somehow turned into a lien on the property.“It was a mess,” she said. €œThere are bills I could diflucan costo pay with that money.

I could pay off my car, for one thing.”Property liens are the hidden icebergs of patient medical debt, legal experts say, lying unseen, often for decades, before they surface to claim hard-won family savings or inheritance proceeds.An ongoing examination by KHN into hospital billing and collections in Virginia shows just how widespread and destructive they can be. KHN reported a year ago that UVA Health diflucan costo had sued patients 36,000 times over six years for more than $100 million, often for amounts far higher than what an insurer would have paid for their care. In response to the articles, the system temporarily suspended patient lawsuits and wage garnishments, increased discounts for the uninsured and broadened financial assistance, including for cases dating to 2017.Those changes were “a first step” in reforming billing and collection practices, university officials said at the time.However, UVA Health continues to rely on thousands of property liens to collect old bills, in contrast to VCU Health, another huge, state-owned medical system examined by KHN. VCU Health pledged in March to stop seizing patients’ wages over unpaid bills and to remove all property liens, which are created after diflucan costo a creditor wins a court judgment.

Email Sign-Up Subscribe to diflucan costo California Healthline’s free Daily Edition. Working courthouse-by-courthouse, VCU Health now says it has discovered and released 45,000 property liens filed against patients just in Richmond, its home city, some dating to the 1990s. There are diflucan costo an estimated 35,000 more in other parts of the state. Fifteen thousand of those have been canceled and they are working on the rest, officials said.

These figures have not been previously reported diflucan costo. The system is part of Virginia Commonwealth University.VCU Health’s total caseload is “a huge number” but perhaps not astonishing given the energy with which many hospital systems sue their patients, said Carolyn Carter, deputy director of the National Consumer Law Center.Despite having suspended patient lawsuits, UVA Health has continued to create property liens based on older court cases, court records show. The number of new liens is “small,” said UVA Health spokesperson Eric Swensen.An advisory council of UVA Health officials diflucan costo and community leaders is expected to deliver new recommendations by the end of October, Swensen said. The council, whose schedule has been slowed by the antifungals crisis, has discussed property liens, Don Gathers, an activist and council member, said in an interview this summer.Nobody knows how many old or new UVA Health liens are scattered through scores of Virginia courthouses.

The health system, which has sued patients in almost every county and city in the state, has failed to respond to repeated requests over two years to diflucan costo disclose the number and value of its property liens.But in Albemarle County alone, which surrounds the university’s Charlottesville home, “there are thousands” of UVA Health judgments filed in the land records, which creates a lien, said Circuit Court Clerk Jon Zug.Not just Virginia homes are at risk. UVA Health lawyers search the nation for property or other assets owned by patients with outstanding bills and have filed liens in Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio and Florida, court records show.The system put a lien on a Nevada vacation diflucan costo condo owned by Veronica Musie’s family a decade ago over a $30,600 hospital bill, said Musie, who lives in northern Virginia. The family has since paid the debt.Virginia property liens expire after 20 years. But UVA Health often renews them diflucan costo.

Since 2017, just in Albemarle County, it has renewed more than three dozen liens. That means the medical system could seize families’ home equity until 2039 for bills dating to the last century.UVA Health and other medical systems rarely force the sale of a home diflucan costo to claim money. Instead, they wait for families to refinance or sell, taking their cut at the settlement table. But with 6% simple interest accumulating year diflucan costo after year after the court judgment, as allowed by Virginia law, the final amount owed can be much more than the original charges.UVA Health treated Hutchinson’s brother for heart disease in the early 2000s.

The unpaid bill was $24,868. The system laid claim to their mother’s home because he diflucan costo was one of her heirs. The claim is up to $38,000 now, she said, because of interest diflucan costo charges. Hutchinson has been disputing it for more than a year.VCU Health and its MCV Physicians affiliate estimate that eliminating two decades of property liens in courthouses across the state, which they began to do last year after KHN published its reports, won’t be finished until spring.Richmond was especially problematic.

Because releasing 40,000 Richmond liens by hand would have been impractical, VCU Health got a diflucan costo judge’s permission to do it with computer code.Creditors such as UVA and VCU don’t need addresses to create liens. All they have to do is file a judgment in county or city land records. If debtors own any property there, title companies won’t approve a sale diflucan costo until the debt is paid, often with home equity.Often owners don’t know debts exist until paralegals unearth them when homes are sold, property pros say. Old debts can create liens on newly acquired real estate.“It could be your grandmother’s house, and as soon as you’ve inherited it, and you’ve got judgments, those [liens] are now attached,” said Richmond Court Clerk Edward Jewett.Frequently debtors own no property, so judgments in the land records expire without hospitals or other creditors getting anything.VCU and MCV had no idea how many liens they had placed across the state until they began investigating last year after KHN’s inquiries, officials said.“It’s an incredibly manual process” to cancel the claims, partly because computer systems at many courthouses prohibit an easy tech solution, said Melinda Hancock, VCU Health’s chief administrative and financial officer.

But it’s worth it to remove a burden on patients, she said, adding, “This is an outdated collections practice whose time has come and gone.”But diflucan costo many medical systems still do it, consumer debt experts say, noting that obtaining a complete picture of hospital property liens is impossible.Land and judgment records are held by thousands of local court clerks, often using separate computer systems. Records are difficult or impossible to obtain in bulk.“There is not a good nationwide study that I know of that looks at how widespread this is, how many consumers are affected, what’s the average size of a lien,” said Erin Fuse Brown, a law professor at Georgia State University who studies hospital billing.Mike Miller and Kitt Klein are among those hoping UVA Health follows VCU Health in canceling thousands of property liens. They fear a $129,000 judgment won diflucan costo by UVA in 2017 against Miller will cost them the equity in their home in Quicksburg, Virginia.They make about $25,000 a year. Miller, a house painter, was insured but received out-of-network radiation at UVA diflucan costo that doctors said was necessary to treat his lung cancer.After KHN wrote about his case a year ago, benefits firm WellRithms analyzed his UVA bill and found that a commercial insurer would have paid a little more than $13,000, not $129,000, for the treatment.“We know all [health care] providers bill a lot, but usually ‘a lot’ is three to six times what reasonable prices would be,” said Jordan Weintraub, vice president of claims for WellRithms.

Trying to collect 10 times as much, she said, “is really out there.”UVA Health does not comment on individual patient cases, Swensen said.KHN found last year that UVA frequently sued patients for far more than what the system could have collected from insurance.Early this year Miller and Klein emailed UVA President James Ryan, asking for help in reducing or eliminating the judgment. His office phoned in February, saying it would review the case.“I became diflucan costo very emotional, filled with gratitude,” Klein said. €œI couldn’t talk.”Months went by with no contact. Recently a lawyer from the office of Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring offered to settle the diflucan costo case for $120,000, Klein said, reducing the bill by only $9,000.

They don’t have the money. Miller’s cancer has returned diflucan costo. Interest is mounting at 6%.University officials do not comment on legal matters or individual cases, a diflucan costo Ryan spokesperson said. Herring’s office did not respond to requests for comment.

This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent program diflucan costo of the Kaiser Family Foundation. Jay Hancock. jhancock@kff.org, @jayhancock1 Related Topics diflucan costo Courts Health Care Costs Health Industry Insight States Hospitals Investigation UVA Lawsuits VirginiaIn mid-March, Karla Monterroso flew home to Alameda, California, after a hiking trip in Utah’s Zion National Park. Four days later, she began to develop a bad, dry cough.

Her lungs felt sticky.The fevers that persisted for the next nine weeks grew so diflucan costo high — 100.4, 101.2, 101.7, 102.3 — that, on the worst night, she was in the shower on all fours, ice-cold water running down her back, willing her temperature to go down.“That night I had written down in a journal, letters to everyone I’m close to, the things I wanted them to know in case I died,” she remembered.Then, in the second month, came a new batch of symptoms. Headaches and shooting pains in her legs and abdomen that made her worry she could be at risk for the blood clots and strokes that other antifungal medication patients in their 30s had reported.Still, she wasn’t sure if she should go to the hospital.“As women of color, you get questioned a lot about your emotions and the truth of your physical state. You get called diflucan costo an exaggerator a lot throughout the course of your life,” said Monterroso, who is Latina. €œSo there diflucan costo was this weird, ‘I don’t want to go and use resources for nothing’ feeling.”It took four friends to convince her she needed to call 911.

Email Sign-Up Subscribe to California Healthline’s free Daily Edition. But what happened in the emergency room diflucan costo at Alameda Hospital only confirmed her worst fears.At nearly every turn during her emergency room visit, Monterroso said, providers dismissed her symptoms and concerns. Her low blood pressure?. That’s a false diflucan costo reading.

Her cycling oxygen levels?. The machine’s diflucan costo wrong. The shooting pains in her leg?. Probably just a cyst.“The doctor came in and said, ‘I don’t think that much is happening diflucan costo here.

I think we can send you home,’” Monterroso recalled.Her experiences, she reasons, are part of why people diflucan costo of color are disproportionately affected by the antifungals. It is not merely because they’re more likely to have front-line jobs that expose them to it and the underlying conditions that make antifungal medication worse.“That is certainly part of it, but the other part is the lack of value people see in our lives,” Monterroso wrote in a Twitter thread detailing her experience.I’m writing this because all the coverage of Latinx and Black death as a result of antifungal medication is being covered like it’s JUST the pre-existing conditions of racism that make us susceptible. That is certainly part of it, but the other part is the lack of value people see in our lives.— Karla Monterroso (@karlitaliliana) May 14, 2020 Research shows how doctors’ unconscious bias affects the care people receive, with Latino and Black patients being less likely to receive pain medications or get referred for advanced care than white patients with the same complaints or symptoms, and more likely to die in childbirth from preventable complications.In the hospital that day in May, Monterroso was feeling woozy and having trouble communicating, so she had a friend and her friend’s cousin, diflucan costo a cardiac nurse, on the phone to help. They started asking questions.

What about diflucan costo Karla’s accelerated heart rate?. Her low oxygen levels?. Why are diflucan costo her lips blue?. The doctor walked out of the room.

He refused to care for Monterroso while her friends were on the phone, diflucan costo she said, and when he came back, the only thing he wanted to talk about was Monterroso’s tone and her friends’ tone.“The implication was that we were insubordinate,” Monterroso said.She told the doctor she didn’t want to talk about her tone. She wanted to talk diflucan costo about her health care. She was worried about possible blood clots in her leg and she asked for a CT scan.“Well, you know, the CT scan is radiation right next to your breast tissue. Do you diflucan costo want to get breast cancer?.

€ Monterroso recalled the doctor saying to her. €œI only feel comfortable diflucan costo giving you that test if you say that you’re fine getting breast cancer.”Monterroso thought to herself, “Swallow it up, Karla. You need to be well.” And so she said to the doctor. €œI’m fine getting breast cancer.”He never ordered the test.A vehicle parked in Oakland, California, during the first weeks of the 2020 Black diflucan costo Lives Matter demonstrations.(April Dembosky)Monterroso asked for a different doctor, for a hospital advocate.

No and no, she diflucan costo was told. She began to worry about her safety. She wanted to get out of diflucan costo there. Her friends, all calling every medical professional they knew to confirm that this treatment was not right, came to pick her up and drove her to the University of California-San Francisco.

The team there gave her an EKG, a chest X-ray and a CT scan.“One of the nurses came in and she was diflucan costo like, ‘I heard about your ordeal. I just want you to know that I believe you. And we are not going to diflucan costo let you go until we know that you are safe to go,’” Monterroso said. €œAnd I started bawling.

Because that’s all you want is to diflucan costo be believed. You spend so much of diflucan costo the process not believing yourself, and then to not be believed when you go in?. It’s really hard to be questioned in that way.”Alameda Health System, which operates Alameda Hospital, declined to comment on the specifics of Monterroso’s case, but said in a statement that it is “deeply committed to equity in access to health care” and “providing culturally-sensitive care for all we serve.” After Monterroso filed a grievance with the hospital, management invited her to come talk to their staff and residents, but she declined.She believes her experience is an example of why people of color are faring so badly in the diflucan.“Because when we go and seek care, if we are advocating for ourselves, we can be treated as insubordinate,” she said. €œAnd if we are not advocating for ourselves, we can be treated as invisible.”Unconscious Bias in Health CareExperts say this happens routinely, and regardless of a diflucan costo doctor’s intentions or race.

Monterroso’s doctor was not white, for example.Research shows that every doctor, every human being, has biases they’re not aware of, said Dr. René Salazar, assistant dean for diversity at the University diflucan costo of Texas-Austin medical school.“Do I question a white man in a suit who’s coming in looking like he’s a professional when he asks for pain meds versus a Black man?. € Salazar said, noting one of his own possible biases.Unconscious bias most often surfaces in high-stress environments, like emergency rooms — where doctors are under tremendous pressure and have to make quick, high-stakes decisions. Add in a deadly diflucan, in which the science is changing by the day, and things can spiral.“There’s just so much uncertainty,” diflucan costo he said.

€œWhen there is this uncertainty, there always is a level of opportunity for bias to make its way in and have an impact.”Salazar used to teach at UCSF, where he helped develop unconscious-bias training for medical and pharmacy students. Although dozens of medical schools are picking up the training, he said, it’s diflucan costo not as commonly performed in hospitals. Even when diflucan costo a negative patient encounter like Monterroso’s is addressed, the intervention is usually weak.“How do I tell my clinician, ‘Well, the patient thinks you’re racist?. €™â€ Salazar said.

€œIt’s a diflucan costo hard conversation. €˜I gotta be careful, I don’t want to say the race word because I’m going to push some buttons here.’ So it just starts to become really complicated.”A Data-Based ApproachDr. Ronald Copeland said he remembers doctors also resisting these conversations in the early days of his training diflucan costo. Suggestions for workshops in cultural sensitivity or unconscious bias were met with a backlash.“It was viewed almost from a punishment standpoint.

€˜Doc, your patients of this persuasion don’t like you and you’ve got to do something about it.’ It’s like, ‘You’re a bad doctor, and so your punishment is you have to go get training,” said diflucan costo Copeland, who is chief of equity, inclusion and diversity at the Kaiser Permanente health system. (KHN is an editorially independent program of KFF, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.)Now, KP’s approach is rooted in data from patient surveys that ask if a person felt respected, if the communication was good and if they were satisfied with the experience.KP then breaks this data down by demographics, to see if a doctor may get good scores on respect and empathy from white patients, but not Black patients.“If you see a pattern evolving around a certain group and it’s a persistent pattern, then that tells you there’s something that from a cultural, from an ethnicity, from a gender, something that group has in common, that you’re not addressing,” Copeland said. €œThen the real work starts.”When doctors are presented with the data from their patients and diflucan costo the science on unconscious bias, they’re less likely to resist it or deny it, Copeland said. At his health system, diflucan costo they’ve reframed the goal of training around delivering better quality care and getting better patient outcomes, so doctors want to do it.“Folks don’t flinch about it,” he said.

€œThey’re eager to learn more about it, particularly about how you mitigate it.”Still UnwellIt’s been nearly six months since Monterroso first got sick, and she’s still not feeling well.Her heart rate continues to spike and doctors told her she may need gallbladder surgery to address the gallstones she developed as a result of antifungal medication-related dehydration. She decided recently to leave the Bay Area and move to Los Angeles so she could be closer to her family for the long recovery.She declined Alameda Hospital’s invitation to speak to their staff about her experience, concluding it diflucan costo wasn’t her responsibility to fix the system. But she wants the broader health care system to take responsibility for the bias perpetuated in hospitals and clinics.She acknowledges that Alameda Hospital is public, and it doesn’t have the kind of resources that KP and UCSF do. A recent audit warned that the Alameda Health diflucan costo System was on the brink of insolvency.

But Monterroso is the CEO of Code2040, a racial equity nonprofit in the tech sector and even for her, she said, it took an army of support for her to be heard.“Ninety percent of the people that are going to come through that hospital are not going to have what I have to fight that,” she said. €œAnd if I don’t say what’s happening, then people with much less resources are going to come into this experience, and they’re going to die.”This story is part of a partnership that includes KQED, NPR and KHN. Related Topics California Insight Public Health Race and Health States antifungal medication Emergency Medicine.

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23. You can check whether you are registered to vote.Voting by Mail:Texas allows voting by mail if you meet certain criteria but are otherwise eligible to vote, that is, if you are:65 years of age or older,Sick or disabled,Out of the county on Election Day and during the early voting period, orIn jail.Voting by mail could be a safer alternative than voting in person because it doesn’t require you to be in confined spaces with diflucan cash price other people. Remember to follow basic safety guidelines if you take your completed ballot to the post office to vote by mail, such as wearing a mask and washing your hands frequently. The same applies for people who hand-deliver their completed mail-in ballot at a county drop-off location rather than mailing it.The U.S.

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Either option you choose, physicians diflucan cash price and other medical experts recommend these public health guidelines to keep you safe:Bring alcohol-based hand sanitizer with you in case there is none available at polling locations, and sanitize your hands before and after voting.Bring your own pen, pencil and stylus.Wear a mask.Socially distance. Keep at least 6 feet of distance from others including standing in line, even though you are wearing a mask.Try to vote during times when lines will be shorter, such as midmorning.Do not disinfect the voting equipment yourself, as this could damage the equipment.Cover your mouth with the inside of your elbow if you sneeze or cough, even while wearing a mask.Stay at home if you are sick.Early Voting – Oct. 13-30Early voting might be a safer alternative than voting on Election Day because you might encounter fewer people at the polls, which decreases the chance of spread of antifungal medication. In addition, voting early helps to decrease lines on Election Day, which helps keep other people safe on a day when millions of people diflucan cash price are expected to vote.

Early voting in Texas runs Oct. 13-Oct 30. Find out where to vote early and where to vote on Election diflucan cash price Day. You can vote at any polling location in your county during the early voting period.

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On this day, you might be able to diflucan cash price vote at any polling location in your county or you may be restricted to voting in your precinct, depending on the county where you live. Make sure to confirm your polling location before you go to vote!. Voting is important in every election cycle, diflucan cash price and it is possible to do so safely even with a global diflucan underway. It is essential to plan ahead and select the voting method that works best for you and is safest for you.

If you have any questions, please contact your county’s election authority.Stay tuned for Part 2 of our voting series on MeAndMyDoctor.com.Sarah MillerMedical Student at UTRGV School of MedicineChair, Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section Executive CouncilSwetha MaddipudiMedical Student at UT Health San Antonio Long School of MedicineVice Chair, TMA Medical Student Section Executive CouncilRyan WealtherMedical Student at UT Health San Antonio Long School of MedicineReporter, TMA Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section Executive CouncilAlyssa Greenwood FrancisMedical Student at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, El PasoTMA Delegate Co-Chair, TMA Medical Student Section Executive CouncilWith flu season starting diflucan cash price as antifungal medication continues to spread, many health experts fear a "twindemic."Getting a flu shot can help avoid that. Photo by Brent AnnearFall is here, and so is the flu. With antifungal medication still a threat, it’s more important than ever to protect yourself from preventable illnesses, like the flu.

treatments prevent diflucan cash price sickness and make it easier for us to go about our everyday lives. Here are ten reasons getting the flu shot is so important. 1. Save money diflucan cash price.

A flu shot is usually free or low cost, whether you have insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, or work for a company that provides the shot to prevent employees from getting sick. For employees’ sake, not getting the flu means no lost wages or missed diflucan cash price work. 2. Less chance of a heart attack.

Getting the flu shot reduces your diflucan cash price risk of having a heart attack, which occurs more frequently in the weeks following the flu. A recent study that examined more than 80,000 U.S. Adults hospitalized with the flu over eight flu seasons found that one in eight flu patients experienced sudden, serious heart complications. 3.

Protect pregnant women. The flu treatment protects pregnant women who are at risk for complications from the flu. Every pregnant woman deserves a pregnancy without fearing for the health of herself and her baby. Women who plan to get pregnant should also get the flu shot.

treatments strengthen our ability to fight diseases, and studies show the shot works best among women of childbearing age. 4. Protect newborn babies. The flu shot also helps protect babies under six months who are not yet eligible for a flu shot.

When an expectant mom gets a flu shot, the protection gets passed on to her newborn until he or she is old enough to be immunized. 5. Protect older people. It will protect your elderly relatives, who are less likely to receive as much protection from the flu shot as younger people get.

If you don’t get the flu, you can’t pass it on to someone. By getting a flu shot, you help increase your area's herd immunity. Photo by Brent Annear6. Protect people with chronic health conditions.

You’ll also protect people who have conditions which can make the flu more serious for them. These include people with asthma, heart disease, cancer, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. 7. Help defend your community from illness.

The more people that get the flu shot, the stronger your area’s community immunity, or herd immunity is. Herd immunity is achieved when a large enough portion of the community becomes able to fight off a disease and is therefore less likely to spread it from person-to-person. This protects the whole community, especially those who are less able to fight illness or have chronic diseases. 8.

Avoid a hospital stay or doctor visit. treatments make you less likely to have to go to the doctor or end up in the hospital. Thanks to the flu shot, doctors and other health experts estimate two out of five older adults won’t have to be hospitalized this flu season because of the flu. 9.

Protect children. Influenza can be especially dangerous for children because they can develop complications like pneumonia, dehydration, brain dysfunction, sinus problems, and ear s. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the past 10 years between 7,000 and 26,000 children younger than 5 years of age were hospitalized with the flu. Although it is rare, kids can die from the flu as well.

If your child is afraid of needles, there is a nasal spray flu treatment available for everyone six months and older with no underlying health issues. Talk to your child’s doctor about which treatment is best.10. Stay active. The flu treatment helps keep you moving.

It may not always prevent the flu, but it can lessen symptoms and shorten sick time. This means fewer missed work and school days, and more time to do the things you enjoy. Because antifungal medication is still spreading as flu season starts, many health experts fear a “twindemic.” While we wait for a antifungal medication treatment, there is one for the flu. For more information on the flu shot, view this downloadable poster created in both English and Spanish by the Texas Medical Association’s Be Wise Immunize℠ program.

Be Wise – Immunize is funded in 2020 by the TMA Foundation, thanks to major support from H-E-B and Permian Basin Youth Chavarim.Be Wise – Immunize is a service mark of the Texas Medical Association..

Editor’s Note diflucan costo http://www.ec-jean-monnet-selestat.ac-strasbourg.fr/conjugue-au-passe-compose-3/. Me&My Doctor is launching a new monthly series, Medicine with a Med Student, which features blog posts written exclusively by medical students studying to become physicians. In this first post in a two-part series on voting, the authors discuss how to vote safely during diflucan costo the antifungal medication diflucan. For more information on the authors, visit below. The 2020 election is here, and with early voting underway it’s important to vote – but very important to plan to do so safely – because we are still dealing with the antifungal medication diflucan.

The diflucan costo U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other organizations have created guidelines about how to make voting safer during the antifungal medication diflucan. Everyone needs to assess what level of risk they are comfortable accepting to vote and decide which voting method works best for them. Texas is offering two different ways to vote this diflucan costo year, including voting by mail or voting in person at a polling location. The deadline to register to vote was Oct.

5, so if you did not make this deadline, you will not be able to vote in the November general election. The deadline to request a ballot by mail is diflucan costo Oct. 23. You can diflucan costo check whether you are registered to vote.Voting by Mail:Texas allows voting by mail if you meet certain criteria but are otherwise eligible to vote, that is, if you are:65 years of age or older,Sick or disabled,Out of the county on Election Day and during the early voting period, orIn jail.Voting by mail could be a safer alternative than voting in person because it doesn’t require you to be in confined spaces with other people. Remember to follow basic safety guidelines if you take your completed ballot to the post office to vote by mail, such as wearing a mask and washing your hands frequently.

The same applies for people who hand-deliver their completed mail-in ballot at a county drop-off location rather than mailing it.The U.S. Postal Service is encouraging everyone to plan ahead diflucan costo. Mail your ballot at least seven days before Election Day (Oct. 27). The last day to mail your diflucan costo ballot is Tuesday, Nov.

3 (must be postmarked by 7 pm).Voting in Person:Voting in person is the other option for voting in Texas. There are two opportunities to vote in person. Voting early diflucan costo or voting on Election Day (Nov. 3). Either option you choose, physicians and other medical experts recommend these public health guidelines to keep you safe:Bring alcohol-based hand sanitizer with you in case there is none available at polling locations, and sanitize your hands before and after voting.Bring your own pen, pencil and stylus.Wear a diflucan costo mask.Socially distance.

Keep at least 6 feet of distance from others including standing in line, even though you are wearing a mask.Try to vote during times when lines will be shorter, such as midmorning.Do not disinfect the voting equipment yourself, as this could damage the equipment.Cover your mouth with the inside of your elbow if you sneeze or cough, even while wearing a mask.Stay at home if you are sick.Early Voting – Oct. 13-30Early voting might be a safer alternative than voting on Election Day because you might encounter fewer people at the polls, which decreases the chance of spread of antifungal medication. In addition, voting early helps to decrease lines on Election Day, which helps keep other people safe on a day when millions of people diflucan costo are expected to vote. Early voting in Texas runs Oct. 13-Oct 30.

Find out where diflucan costo to vote early and where to vote on Election Day. You can vote at any polling location in your county during the early voting period. Election Day – Nov. 3Voting on Election Day, Nov diflucan costo. 3, often attracts more people, leading to longer lines.

If this is the voting day that’s best for you, please make sure to follow the safety guidelines above. On this day, you might be able to vote at any polling location in your county or you may be restricted to voting in your precinct, depending on the county where diflucan costo you live. Make sure to confirm your polling location before you go to vote!. Voting is important in every election cycle, and it is possible to do so safely even diflucan costo with a global diflucan underway. It is essential to plan ahead and select the voting method that works best for you and is safest for you.

If you have any questions, please contact your county’s election authority.Stay tuned for Part 2 of our voting series on MeAndMyDoctor.com.Sarah MillerMedical Student at UTRGV School of MedicineChair, Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section Executive CouncilSwetha MaddipudiMedical Student at UT Health San Antonio Long School of MedicineVice Chair, TMA Medical Student Section Executive CouncilRyan WealtherMedical Student at UT Health San Antonio Long School of MedicineReporter, TMA Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section Executive CouncilAlyssa Greenwood FrancisMedical Student at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School diflucan costo of Medicine, El PasoTMA Delegate Co-Chair, TMA Medical Student Section Executive CouncilWith flu season starting as antifungal medication continues to spread, many health experts fear a "twindemic."Getting a flu shot can help avoid that. Photo by Brent AnnearFall is here, and so is the flu. With antifungal medication still a threat, it’s more important than ever to protect yourself from preventable illnesses, like the flu. treatments prevent sickness and make it easier for diflucan costo us to go about our everyday lives.

Here are ten reasons getting the flu shot is so important. 1. Save money diflucan costo. A flu shot is usually free or low cost, whether you have insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, or work for a company that provides the shot to prevent employees from getting sick. For employees’ sake, not getting the diflucan costo flu means no lost wages or missed work.

2. Less chance of a heart attack. Getting the flu shot reduces diflucan costo your risk of having a heart attack, which occurs more frequently in the weeks following the flu. A recent study that examined more than 80,000 U.S. Adults hospitalized with the flu over eight flu seasons found that one in eight flu patients experienced sudden, serious heart complications.

3. Protect pregnant women. The flu treatment protects pregnant women who are at risk for complications from the flu. Every pregnant woman deserves a pregnancy without fearing for the health of herself and her baby. Women who plan to get pregnant should also get the flu shot.

treatments strengthen our ability to fight diseases, and studies show the shot works best among women of childbearing age. 4. Protect newborn babies. The flu shot also helps protect babies under six months who are not yet eligible for a flu shot. When an expectant mom gets a flu shot, the protection gets passed on to her newborn until he or she is old enough to be immunized.

5. Protect older people. It will protect your elderly relatives, who are less likely to receive as much protection from the flu shot as younger people get. If you don’t get the flu, you can’t pass it on to someone. By getting a flu shot, you help increase your area's herd immunity.

Photo by Brent Annear6. Protect people with chronic health conditions. You’ll also protect people who have conditions which can make the flu more serious for them. These include people with asthma, heart disease, cancer, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. 7.

Help defend your community from illness. The more people that get the flu shot, the stronger your area’s community immunity, or herd immunity is. Herd immunity is achieved when a large enough portion of the community becomes able to fight off a disease and is therefore less likely to spread it from person-to-person. This protects the whole community, especially those who are less able to fight illness or have chronic diseases. 8.

Avoid a hospital stay or doctor visit. treatments make you less likely to have to go to the doctor or end up in the hospital. Thanks to the flu shot, doctors and other health experts estimate two out of five older adults won’t have to be hospitalized this flu season because of the flu. 9. Protect children.

Influenza can be especially dangerous for children because they can develop complications like pneumonia, dehydration, brain dysfunction, sinus problems, and ear s. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the past 10 years between 7,000 and 26,000 children younger than 5 years of age were hospitalized with the flu. Although it is rare, kids can die from the flu as well. If your child is afraid of needles, there is a nasal spray flu treatment available for everyone six months and older with no underlying health issues. Talk to your child’s doctor about which treatment is best.10.

Stay active. The flu treatment helps keep you moving. It may not always prevent the flu, but it can lessen symptoms and shorten sick time. This means fewer missed work and school days, and more time to do the things you enjoy. Because antifungal medication is still spreading as flu season starts, many health experts fear a “twindemic.” While we wait for a antifungal medication treatment, there is one for the flu.

For more information on the flu shot, view this downloadable poster created in both English and Spanish by the Texas Medical Association’s Be Wise Immunize℠ program. Be Wise – Immunize is funded in 2020 by the TMA Foundation, thanks to major support from H-E-B and Permian Basin Youth Chavarim.Be Wise – Immunize is a service mark of the Texas Medical Association..

What should I watch for while taking Diflucan?

Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular checkups. If you are taking Diflucan for a long time you may need blood work. Tell your doctor if your symptoms do not improve. Some fungal s need many weeks or months of treatment to cure.

Alcohol can increase possible damage to your liver. Avoid alcoholic drinks.

If you have a vaginal , do not have sex until you have finished your treatment. You can wear a sanitary napkin. Do not use tampons. Wear freshly washed cotton, not synthetic, panties.

Diflucan and bv

We live http://dsdtips.com/posting-bank-fees-and-other-bank-transactions-into-bank-reconciliation-module-with-posting-to-general-ledger/ in diflucan and bv unprecedented times. But what makes them without parallel is not the current diflucan crisis nor the continued problems facing minorities in our institutions. Rather, it’s that for diflucan and bv the first time, the problems of accessibility, rights and freedoms are now invading privileged spaces. There can be no ‘getting back to normal’, because ‘normal’ only ever benefited the white, Western, patriarchal, abled and cis ideals.

For many, the diflucan and bv world is not suddenly on fire. It has long been burning.The present diflucan lays bare systemic prejudice against the most vulnerable among us. We at Medical Humanities, with our focus on global health and social justice, welcome discussion about how the crisis has disproportionately affected racial and fiscal minorities, those from the disabled community, those who are LGBTQA+ and other vulnerable groups. What we focus on here, now, can lead to greater accessibility and equity in the future.In this expanded issue, we offer some of the diflucan and bv incredible work being done across the field of medical humanities prior to the antifungal medication crisis, and we are already reviewing articles on the role of health humanities during the diflucan.

The process of academic publishing tends not to lend itself to immediacy, however, and the challenges of diflucan means greater pressure on everyone, from the authors to the reviewers and readers.To remedy this, we at Medical Humanities have been increasing the work on our blog platform, a place where content can be quickly updated, and where conversations can occur among readers and writers. We openly invite submissions concerning the diflucan, as well as topics relevant to our wider CFP (call for posts/papers) this year on social justice and health, to both diflucan and bv blog and journal. We will do our best to expedite. Finally, we have also been addressing social justice and access in our podcast, where we interviewed disability activist Alice Wong and most recently Dr Oni Blackstock, primary care physician and HIV specialist in New York.

We hope to have many more on these critical subjects.We wish diflucan and bv all of you good health and safety and know that many of you are yet on the front lines. Thank you for being part of the community of Medical Humanities.IntroductionMinecraft is a computer game with no specific goals to accomplish. The gameworld consists of diflucan and bv three-dimensional (3D) cubes and objects which the player (Steve) can mine and build into infinitely complex (and logically impossible) structures. Steve sometimes encounters other characters (‘mobs’), such as animals and hostile creatures.

He can ‘spawn’ and destroy them. While it looks like a harmless game of logical construction, it conveys some worryingly delusive diflucan and bv ideas about the real world. The difference between real and imagined structures is at the heart of the age-old debate around categorising mental disorders.Classification in mental health has had various forms throughout history. Mack and colleagues set out a history of psychiatric classification beginning in 2600 BC with Egyptian references to diflucan and bv melancholia and hysteria.

Through the Ancient Greeks with Hippocrates’ phrenitis, mania, melancholia, epilepsy, hysteria and Scythian disease. Through the Renaissance period. Through to 19th-century psychiatry featuring Pinel (known as the first psychiatrist), Kraepelin (known for observational classification) and Freud (known for classifying neurosis and psychosis).1Although the history of psychiatric classification identifies some common trends such as the labels ‘melancholia’ and ‘hysteria’ which have survived diflucan and bv millennia, the label ‘depression’ is relatively new. The earliest usage noted by Snaith is from 1899.

€˜in simple pathological depression…the patient exhibits a growing indifference to diflucan and bv his former pursuits…’.2 Snaith noted that early 20th-century psychiatrists like Adolf Meyer hoped that ‘depression’ would come to encompass a broad category under which descriptions of subtypes would emerge. This did not happen until the middle of the 20th century. With the publication of the sixth International Classification of Diseases (ICD) in 1948 and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1952 and their subsequent revisions, the latter half of the 20th century has seen depression subtype labels proliferate. In their study of the social determinants of diagnostic labels in depression, McPherson and Armstrong illustrate how the codification of diflucan and bv depression subtypes in the latter half of the 20th century has been shaped by the evolving context of psychiatry, including power struggles within the profession, a move to community care and the development of psychopharmacology.3During this period, McPherson and Armstrong describe how subsequent versions of the DSM served as battlegrounds for professional disputes and philosophical quarrels around categorisation of mental disorders.

DSM I and DSM II have been described as products of an American Psychiatric Association dominated by psychoanalytic psychiatrists.4 DSM III and DSM III-R have been described as a radical rejection of psychoanalytic thinking, a ‘neo-Kraepelinian revolution’, a reference to the observational descriptive techniques of 19th-century psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin who classified mental disorders into two broad categories. €˜dementia praecox’ and ‘manic-depression’.5 DSM III was seen by some as a turning point in the use of the medical model of mental illness, through provision of specific inclusion and exclusion criteria, and use of field trials and a multiaxial system.6 These latter technocratic additions to psychiatric labelling served to engender a much closer alignment between psychiatry, science and medicine.The codification of mental disorders in manuals has been described by Thomas Schacht as intrinsic to the relationship between science and politics and the way diflucan and bv in which psychiatrists gain significant social power by aligning themselves to science.7 His argument drew on Szasz, who saw the mental health establishment as a therapeutic state. Zimbardo, who described psychiatric care as a controlling force. And Foucault, who described the categorisation of the mentally ill as a force for isolating ‘the other’.

Diagnostic critique has been further developed through a cultural relativist lens in that what Western psychiatrists diflucan and bv classify as a depression is constructed differently in other cultures.8 Considering these limitations, some critics have gone so far as to argue that psychiatric diagnostic systems should be abolished.9Yet architects of DSM manuals have worked hard to ensure the technology of classification is regarded as genuine scientific activity with sound roots in philosophy of science. In their philosophical defence of DSM IV, Allen Frances and colleagues address their critics under the headings ‘nominalism vs realism’, ‘empiricism vs rationalism’ and ‘categorical vs dimensional’.10 The implication is that there are opposing stances in which a choice must be made or a middle ground forged by those reasonable enough to recognise the need for pragmatism in the service of clinical utility. The nominalism–realism debate is illustrated using as metaphor three different stances a cricket umpire might diflucan and bv take on calling strikes and balls. The discussion sets out two of these as extreme views.

€˜at one extreme…those who take a reductionistically realistic view of the world’ versus ‘the solipsistic nominalists…might content that nothing exists’. Szasz, who is characterised as holding particularly extreme views, is named as an archetypal solipsist diflucan and bv. There is implied to be a degree of arrogance associated with this view in the illustrative example in which the umpire states ‘there are no balls and there are no strikes until I call them’. Frances therefore sets up a means of grouping two kinds of people as philosophical extremists who can be dismissed, while avoiding addressing the philosophical problems they pose.Frances provides little if any justification for the middle ground stance, ‘There are balls and there are strikes diflucan and bv and I call them as I see them’, other than to focus on its clinical utility and the lack of clinical utility in the alternatives ‘naïve realism’ and ‘heuristically barren solipsism’.

The natural conclusion the reader is invited to reach is that a middle ground of a heuristic concept is naturally right because it is not extreme and is naturally useful clinically, without specifying in what way this stance is coherent, resolves the two alternatives, and in what way a heuristic construct that is not ‘real’ can be subject to scientific testing.Similarly, in discussing the ‘categorical vs dimensional’, Frances promotes the ‘prototype approach’. Those holding opposing views are labelled as ‘dualists’ or ‘dichotomisers’. The prototypical approach is again put forward diflucan and bv as a clinically useful middle ground. Illustrations are drawn from natural science.

€˜a triangle and a square are never the same’, inciting the reader to consider science diflucan and bv as value-free. The prototypical approach emerges as a natural solution, yet the authors do not address how a diagnostic prototype resolves the issues posed by the two alternatives, nor how a prototype can be subjected to natural science methods.The argument presented here is not a defence of solipsism or dualism. Rather it aims to illustrate that if for pragmatic purposes clinicians and policymakers choose to gloss over the philosophical flaws in classification practices, it is then risky to move beyond the heuristic and apply natural science methods to these constructs adding multiple layers of technocratic subclassification. Doing so is more diflucan and bv like playing Minecraft than cricket.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline for depression is taken as an example of the philosophical errors that can follow from playing Minecraft with unsound heuristic devices, specifically subcategories of persistent forms of depression. As well as serving a clinical purpose, diagnosis in medicine diflucan and bv is a way of allocating resources for insurance companies and constructing clinical guidelines, which in turn determine rationing within the National Health Service. The consequences for recipients of healthcare are therefore significant. Clinical utility is arguably not being served at all and patients are left at risk of poor-quality care.Heterogeneity of persistent depressionAndrea Jobst and colleagues note that ‘because of their chronic clinical course, approximately 40% of CD [chronic depression] patients also fulfil criteria for TRD [treatment resistant depression]…usually defined by the number of non-successful biological treatments’.11 This position is reflected in the DSM VAmerican Psychiatric Association (2013), the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) guidance and the ICD-11(World Health Organisation, 2018), which all use a ‘persistent’ depression category, acknowledging a loosely defined mixed group of long-term, difficult-to-treat depressive conditions, often associated with dysthymia and comorbid common mental disorders, various personality traits and psychosocial disability.In contrast, the NICE 2018 draft guideline separates treatments into those for ‘new episodes’ of depression.

€˜further-line’ treatment of depression (equivalent to TRD), CD and ‘depression with co-morbidities’ diflucan and bv. The latter is subdivided into treatments for ‘complex depression’ and ‘psychotic depression’. These categories and subcategories introduce diflucan and bv an unfortunate sense of certainty as though these labels represent real things. An analysis follows of how these definitions play out in terms of grouping of randomised controlled trials in the NICE evidence review.

Specifically, the analysis reveals the overlap between populations in trials which have been separated into discrete categories, revealing significant limitations to the utility of the category labels.The NICE definition of CD requires trial samples to meet the criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) for 2 years. Dysthymia and double depression (MDD superimposed on dysthymia) were diflucan and bv included. If 75% of the trial population met these criteria, the trial was reviewed in the CD category.12 The definition of TRD (or ‘further-line treatments’) required that the trial sample had demonstrated a ‘limited response to previous treatment’ and randomised to the further-line treatment at this point. If 80% of the trial participants met these criteria, it was reviewed in the TRD category.13 Complex depression was diflucan and bv defined as ‘depression co-existing with personality disorder’.

To be classed as complex, 51% of trial participants had to have personality disorder (PD).14It is immediately clear from these definitions that there is a potential problem with attempting to categorise trial populations into just one of these categories. These populations are likely to overlap, whether or not a trial protocol sets out to explicitly record all of this information. The analysis below diflucan and bv will illustrate this using examples from within the NICE review.Cataloguing complexity in trial populationsWithin the category of further-line treatments (TRD), 64 trials were reviewed. Comparisons within these trials were further subcategorised into ‘dose escalation strategies’, ‘augmentation strategies’ and ‘switching strategies’.

In drilling down by way of illustration, this analysis considers the diflucan and bv 51 trials in the augmentation strategy evidence review. Of these, two were classified by the reviewers as also fulfilling the criteria for CD but were not analysed in the CD category (Study IDs. Fonagy 2015 and Kocsis 200915). About half of the trials (23/51) did not report the mean duration of episode, meaning that it is diflucan and bv not possible to know what percentage of participants also met the criteria for CD.

Of trials that did report episode duration, 17 reported a mean duration longer than 24 months. While the standard deviations varied in size or were unreported, the mean indicates a good likelihood that a significant proportion of the participants across these 51 trials diflucan and bv met the criteria for CD.Details of baseline employment, trauma history, suicidality, physical comorbidity, axis I comorbidity and PD (all clinical indicators of complexity, severity and chronicity) were not collated by NICE. For the present analysis, all 51 publications were examined and data compiled concerning clinical complexity in the trial populations. Only 14 of 51 trials report employment data.

Of those that do, unemployment ranges from 12% to 56% diflucan and bv across trial samples. None of the trials report trauma history. About half of the trials (26/51) diflucan and bv excluded people who were considered a suicide risk. The others did not.A large proportion of trials (30/51) did not provide any data on axis 1 comorbidity.

Of these, 18 did not exclude any diagnoses, while 12 excluded some (but not all) disorders. The most common diagnoses excluded were psychotic disorders, substance or alcohol abuse, and bipolar disorder (excluded in diflucan and bv 26, 25 and 23 trials, respectively). Only 7 of 51 trials clearly stated that all axis 1 diagnoses were excluded. This leaves only 13 studies providing any data diflucan and bv about comorbidity.

Of these, 9 gave partial data on one or two conditions, while 4 reported either the mean number of disorders (range 1.96–2.9) or the percentage of participants (range 68.1–96.7) with any comorbid diagnosis (Nierenberg 2003a, Nierenberg 2006, Watkins 2011a, Town 201715).The majority of trials (46/51) did not report the prevalence of PD. Many stated PD as an exclusion criterion but without defining a threshold for exclusion. For example, PD could be excluded if it ‘impacted’ the depression, if diflucan and bv it was ‘significant’, ‘severe’ or ‘persistent’. Some excluded certain PDs (such as antisocial or borderline) and not others but without reporting the prevalence of those not excluded.

In the five trials where prevalence was clear, prevalence ranged from 0% (Ravindran 2008a15), where all PDs were excluded, to 87.5% of the sample (Town diflucan and bv 201715). Two studies reported the mean number of PDs. 2.0 (Nierenberg 2003a) and 0.85 (Watkins 2011a15).The majority of trials (43/51) did not report the prevalence of physical illness. Many stated illness as an exclusion criterion, but the definitions and diflucan and bv thresholds were vague and could be interpreted in different ways.

For example, illness could be excluded if it was ‘unstable’, ‘serious’, ‘significant’, ‘relevant’, or would ‘contraindicate’ or ‘impact’ http://www.em-kleber-schiltigheim.ac-strasbourg.fr/?p=744 the medication. Of the diflucan and bv eight trials reporting information about physical health, there was a wide variation. Four reported prevalence varying from 7.6% having a disability (Eisendrath 201615) to 90.9% having an illness or disability (Town 201715). Four used scales of physical health.

Two indicating mild problems (Nierenberg 2006, Lavretsky 201115) and two indicating moderately high levels of illness (Thase 2007, Fang 201015).The NICE review also divided trial diflucan and bv populations into a dichotomy of ‘more severe’ and ‘less severe’ on the grounds that this would be a clinically useful classification for general practitioners. NICE applied a bespoke methodology for creating this dichotomy, abandoning validated measure thresholds in order first to generate two ‘homogeneous’ groups to ‘facilitate analysis’, and second to create an algorithm to ‘read across’ different measures (such as the Beck Depression Inventory, the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) and the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale).16 Examining trials which use more than one of these measures reveals problems in the algorithm. Of the 51 trials, there are 6 instances in which the study population falls into NICE’s more severe category according to one measure and diflucan and bv into the less severe category according to another. In four of these trials, NICE chose the less severe category (Souza 2016, Watkins 2011a, Fonagy 2015, Town 201715).

The other two trials were designated more severe (Barbee 2011, Dunner 200715). Only 17 of 51 trials reported two or more depression scale measures, leaving much unknown about whether other study populations could count as both more severe and diflucan and bv less severe.Absence of knowledge or knowledge of absence?. A key philosophical error in science is to confuse an absence of knowledge with knowledge of absence. It is likely that some of the study populations deemed lacking in complexity or severity could actually have high diflucan and bv degrees of complexity and/or severity.

Data to demonstrate this may either fall foul of a guideline committee decision to prioritise certain information over other conflicting information (as in the severity algorithm). The information may be non-existent as it was not collected. It may diflucan and bv be somewhere in the publication pipeline. Or it may be sitting in a database with a research team that has run out of funds for supplementary analyses.

Wherever those data are or are not, their absence from published articles does not define the phenomenology of diflucan and bv depression for the patients who took part. As a case in point, data from the Fonagy 2015 trial presented at conferences but not published reveal that PD prevalence data would place the trial well within the NICE complex depression category, and that the sample had high levels of past trauma and physical condition comorbidity. The trial also meets the guideline criteria for CD according to the guideline’s own appendices.17 Reported axis 1 comorbidity was high (75.2% had anxiety disorder, 18.6% had substance abuse disorder, 13.2% had eating disorder).18 The mean depression scores at baseline were 36.5 on the Beck Depression Inventory and 20.1 on the HRSD (severe and very severe, respectively, according to published cut-off scores). NICE categorised this population as diflucan and bv less severe TRD, not CD and not complex.Notes1.

Avram H. Mack et diflucan and bv al. (1994), “A Brief History of Psychiatric Classification. From the Ancients to DSM-IV,” Psychiatric Clinics 17, no.

Snaith (1987), “The Concepts of Mild Depression,” British Journal of Psychiatry 150, no. 3. 387.3. Susan McPherson and David Armstrong (2006), “Social Determinants of Diagnostic Labels in Depression,” Social Science &.

Grob (1991), “Origins of DSM-I. A Study in Appearance and Reality,” The American Journal of Psychiatry. 421–31.5. Wilson M.

Compton and Samuel B. Guze (1995), “The Neo-Kraepelinian Revolution in Psychiatric Diagnosis,” European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 245, no. 4. 198–9.6.

Gerald L. Klerman (1984), “A Debate on DSM-III. The Advantages of DSM-III,” The American Journal of Psychiatry. 539–42.7.

Thomas E. Schacht (1985), “DSM-III and the Politics of Truth,” American Psychologist. 513–5.8. Daniel F.

Hartner and Kari L. Theurer (2018), “Psychiatry Should Not Seek Mechanisms of Disorder,” Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 38, no. 4. 189–204.9.

Sami Timimi (2014), “No More Psychiatric Labels. Why Formal Psychiatric Diagnostic Systems Should Be Abolished,” Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology 14, no. 3. 208–15.10.

Allen Frances et al. (1994), “DSM-IV Meets Philosophy,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine 19, no. 3.

207–18.11. Andrea Jobst et al. (2016), “European Psychiatric Association Guidance on Psychotherapy in Chronic Depression Across Europe,” European Psychiatry 33. 20.12.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2018), Depression in Adults. Treatment and Management. Draft for Consultation, https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-cgwave0725/documents/full-guideline-updated, 507.13. Ibid., 351–62.14.

Ibid., 597.15. Note that in order to refer to specific trials reviewed in the guideline, rather than the full citation, the Study IDs from column A in appendix J5 have been used. See www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-cgwave0725/documents/addendum-appendix-9 for details and full references.16. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2018), Depression in Adults.

Treatment and Management. Second Consultation on Draft Guideline – Stakeholder Comments Table, https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-cgwave0725/documents/consultation-comments-and-responses-2, 420–1.17. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2018), Depression in Adults, appendix J5.18. Peter Fonagy et al.

(2015), “Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Long-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression. The Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS),” World Psychiatry 14, no. 3. 312–21.19.

American Psychological Association (2018), Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Depression in Children, Adolescents, and Young, Middle-aged, and Older Adults. Draft.20. Jacqui Thornton (2018), “Depression in Adults. Campaigners and Doctors Demand Full Revision of NICE Guidance,” BMJ 361.

We live in unprecedented diflucan costo times. But what makes them without parallel is not the current diflucan crisis nor the continued problems facing minorities in our institutions. Rather, it’s that for the first time, the diflucan costo problems of accessibility, rights and freedoms are now invading privileged spaces.

There can be no ‘getting back to normal’, because ‘normal’ only ever benefited the white, Western, patriarchal, abled and cis ideals. For many, the world is not suddenly on diflucan costo fire. It has long been burning.The present diflucan lays bare systemic prejudice against the most vulnerable among us.

We at Medical Humanities, with our focus on global health and social justice, welcome discussion about how the crisis has disproportionately affected racial and fiscal minorities, those from the disabled community, those who are LGBTQA+ and other vulnerable groups. What we focus on here, now, can lead to greater accessibility and equity in the future.In this expanded issue, we offer some of the diflucan costo incredible work being done across the field of medical humanities prior to the antifungal medication crisis, and we are already reviewing articles on the role of health humanities during the diflucan. The process of academic publishing tends not to lend itself to immediacy, however, and the challenges of diflucan means greater pressure on everyone, from the authors to the reviewers and readers.To remedy this, we at Medical Humanities have been increasing the work on our blog platform, a place where content can be quickly updated, and where conversations can occur among readers and writers.

We openly invite submissions concerning the diflucan, as well as topics relevant to diflucan costo our wider CFP (call for posts/papers) this year on social justice and health, to both blog and journal. We will do our best to expedite. Finally, we have also been addressing social justice and access in our podcast, where we interviewed disability activist Alice Wong and most recently Dr Oni Blackstock, primary care physician and HIV specialist in New York.

We hope diflucan costo to have many more on these critical subjects.We wish all of you good health and safety and know that many of you are yet on the front lines. Thank you for being part of the community of Medical Humanities.IntroductionMinecraft is a computer game with no specific goals to accomplish. The gameworld consists of three-dimensional (3D) cubes diflucan costo and objects which the player (Steve) can mine and build into infinitely complex (and logically impossible) structures.

Steve sometimes encounters other characters (‘mobs’), such as animals and hostile creatures. He can ‘spawn’ and destroy them. While it looks like a harmless game of logical construction, diflucan costo it conveys some worryingly delusive ideas about the real world.

The difference between real and imagined structures is at the heart of the age-old debate around categorising mental disorders.Classification in mental health has had various forms throughout history. Mack and colleagues set diflucan costo out a history of psychiatric classification beginning in 2600 BC with Egyptian references to melancholia and hysteria. Through the Ancient Greeks with Hippocrates’ phrenitis, mania, melancholia, epilepsy, hysteria and Scythian disease.

Through the Renaissance period. Through to 19th-century psychiatry featuring Pinel (known as the diflucan costo first psychiatrist), Kraepelin (known for observational classification) and Freud (known for classifying neurosis and psychosis).1Although the history of psychiatric classification identifies some common trends such as the labels ‘melancholia’ and ‘hysteria’ which have survived millennia, the label ‘depression’ is relatively new. The earliest usage noted by Snaith is from 1899.

€˜in simple pathological depression…the patient exhibits a growing indifference to his former pursuits…’.2 Snaith noted that early diflucan costo 20th-century psychiatrists like Adolf Meyer hoped that ‘depression’ would come to encompass a broad category under which descriptions of subtypes would emerge. This did not happen until the middle of the 20th century. With the publication of the sixth International Classification of Diseases (ICD) in 1948 and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1952 and their subsequent revisions, the latter half of the 20th century has seen depression subtype labels proliferate.

In their study of the social determinants of diagnostic labels in depression, McPherson and Armstrong illustrate how the codification of depression subtypes in the latter half of the 20th century has been shaped by the evolving context of psychiatry, including power struggles within the profession, a move to diflucan costo community care and the development of psychopharmacology.3During this period, McPherson and Armstrong describe how subsequent versions of the DSM served as battlegrounds for professional disputes and philosophical quarrels around categorisation of mental disorders. DSM I and DSM II have been described as products of an American Psychiatric Association dominated by psychoanalytic psychiatrists.4 DSM III and DSM III-R have been described as a radical rejection of psychoanalytic thinking, a ‘neo-Kraepelinian revolution’, a reference to the observational descriptive techniques of 19th-century psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin who classified mental disorders into two broad categories. €˜dementia praecox’ and ‘manic-depression’.5 DSM III was seen by some as a turning point in the use of the medical model of diflucan costo mental illness, through provision of specific inclusion and exclusion criteria, and use of field trials and a multiaxial system.6 These latter technocratic additions to psychiatric labelling served to engender a much closer alignment between psychiatry, science and medicine.The codification of mental disorders in manuals has been described by Thomas Schacht as intrinsic to the relationship between science and politics and the way in which psychiatrists gain significant social power by aligning themselves to science.7 His argument drew on Szasz, who saw the mental health establishment as a therapeutic state.

Zimbardo, who described psychiatric care as a controlling force. And Foucault, who described the categorisation of the mentally ill as a force for isolating ‘the other’. Diagnostic critique has been further developed through a cultural relativist lens in that what Western psychiatrists classify diflucan costo as a depression is constructed differently in other cultures.8 Considering these limitations, some critics have gone so far as to argue that psychiatric diagnostic systems should be abolished.9Yet architects of DSM manuals have worked hard to ensure the technology of classification is regarded as genuine scientific activity with sound roots in philosophy of science.

In their philosophical defence of DSM IV, Allen Frances and colleagues address their critics under the headings ‘nominalism vs realism’, ‘empiricism vs rationalism’ and ‘categorical vs dimensional’.10 The implication is that there are opposing stances in which a choice must be made or a middle ground forged by those reasonable enough to recognise the need for pragmatism in the service of clinical utility. The nominalism–realism debate is illustrated using as metaphor three different stances a cricket umpire diflucan costo might take on calling strikes and balls. The discussion sets out two of these as extreme views.

€˜at one extreme…those who take a reductionistically realistic view of the world’ versus ‘the solipsistic nominalists…might content that nothing exists’. Szasz, who diflucan costo is characterised as holding particularly extreme views, is named as an archetypal solipsist. There is implied to be a degree of arrogance associated with this view in the illustrative example in which the umpire states ‘there are no balls and there are no strikes until I call them’.

Frances therefore sets up a means of grouping two kinds of people as philosophical extremists who can be dismissed, while avoiding addressing the philosophical problems they pose.Frances provides little if any justification for the middle ground stance, ‘There are balls and there are strikes and I call them as I see them’, other than to focus on its clinical utility and the lack of clinical utility in the alternatives ‘naïve realism’ and diflucan costo ‘heuristically barren solipsism’. The natural conclusion the reader is invited to reach is that a middle ground of a heuristic concept is naturally right because it is not extreme and is naturally useful clinically, without specifying in what way this stance is coherent, resolves the two alternatives, and in what way a heuristic construct that is not ‘real’ can be subject to scientific testing.Similarly, in discussing the ‘categorical vs dimensional’, Frances promotes the ‘prototype approach’. Those holding opposing views are labelled as ‘dualists’ or ‘dichotomisers’.

The prototypical approach diflucan costo is again put forward as a clinically useful middle ground. Illustrations are drawn from natural science. €˜a triangle and diflucan costo a square are never the same’, inciting the reader to consider science as value-free.

The prototypical approach emerges as a natural solution, yet the authors do not address how a diagnostic prototype resolves the issues posed by the two alternatives, nor how a prototype can be subjected to natural science methods.The argument presented here is not a defence of solipsism or dualism. Rather it aims to illustrate that if for pragmatic purposes clinicians and policymakers choose to gloss over the philosophical flaws in classification practices, it is then risky to move beyond the heuristic and apply natural science methods to these constructs adding multiple layers of technocratic subclassification. Doing so is more like playing diflucan costo Minecraft than cricket.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline for depression is taken as an example of the philosophical errors that can follow from playing Minecraft with unsound heuristic devices, specifically subcategories of persistent forms of depression. As well as serving a clinical purpose, diagnosis in medicine is a way of allocating resources for insurance companies and constructing clinical guidelines, which in diflucan costo turn determine rationing within the National Health Service. The consequences for recipients of healthcare are therefore significant.

Clinical utility is arguably not being served at all and patients are left at risk of poor-quality care.Heterogeneity of persistent depressionAndrea Jobst and colleagues note that ‘because of their chronic clinical course, approximately 40% of CD [chronic depression] patients also fulfil criteria for TRD [treatment resistant depression]…usually defined by the number of non-successful biological treatments’.11 This position is reflected in the DSM VAmerican Psychiatric Association (2013), the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) guidance and the ICD-11(World Health Organisation, 2018), which all use a ‘persistent’ depression category, acknowledging a loosely defined mixed group of long-term, difficult-to-treat depressive conditions, often associated with dysthymia and comorbid common mental disorders, various personality traits and psychosocial disability.In contrast, the NICE 2018 draft guideline separates treatments into those for ‘new episodes’ of depression. €˜further-line’ treatment of depression diflucan costo (equivalent to TRD), CD and ‘depression with co-morbidities’. The latter is subdivided into treatments for ‘complex depression’ and ‘psychotic depression’.

These categories diflucan costo and subcategories introduce an unfortunate sense of certainty as though these labels represent real things. An analysis follows of how these definitions play out in terms of grouping of randomised controlled trials in the NICE evidence review. Specifically, the analysis reveals the overlap between populations in trials which have been separated into discrete categories, revealing significant limitations to the utility of the category labels.The NICE definition of CD requires trial samples to meet the criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) for 2 years.

Dysthymia and diflucan costo double depression (MDD superimposed on dysthymia) were included. If 75% of the trial population met these criteria, the trial was reviewed in the CD category.12 The definition of TRD (or ‘further-line treatments’) required that the trial sample had demonstrated a ‘limited response to previous treatment’ and randomised to the further-line treatment at this point. If 80% of the trial participants met these criteria, it was reviewed in the TRD category.13 Complex diflucan costo depression was defined as ‘depression co-existing with personality disorder’.

To be classed as complex, 51% of trial participants had to have personality disorder (PD).14It is immediately clear from these definitions that there is a potential problem with attempting to categorise trial populations into just one of these categories. These populations are likely to overlap, whether or not a trial protocol sets out to explicitly record all of this information. The analysis below will illustrate this using examples from within the NICE review.Cataloguing complexity in trial populationsWithin the category of further-line treatments (TRD), 64 trials diflucan costo were reviewed.

Comparisons within these trials were further subcategorised into ‘dose escalation strategies’, ‘augmentation strategies’ and ‘switching strategies’. In drilling down by way of illustration, this analysis considers diflucan costo the 51 trials in the augmentation strategy evidence review. Of these, two were classified by the reviewers as also fulfilling the criteria for CD but were not analysed in the CD category (Study IDs.

Fonagy 2015 and Kocsis 200915). About half of the trials (23/51) diflucan costo did not report the mean duration of episode, meaning that it is not possible to know what percentage of participants also met the criteria for CD. Of trials that did report episode duration, 17 reported a mean duration longer than 24 months.

While the standard deviations varied in size or were unreported, the mean indicates a good likelihood that a diflucan costo significant proportion of the participants across these 51 trials met the criteria for CD.Details of baseline employment, trauma history, suicidality, physical comorbidity, axis I comorbidity and PD (all clinical indicators of complexity, severity and chronicity) were not collated by NICE. For the present analysis, all 51 publications were examined and data compiled concerning clinical complexity in the trial populations. Only 14 of 51 trials report employment data.

Of those that do, unemployment ranges from 12% to 56% across trial diflucan costo samples. None of the trials report trauma history. About half of the trials (26/51) excluded people diflucan costo who were considered a suicide risk.

The others did not.A large proportion of trials (30/51) did not provide any data on axis 1 comorbidity. Of these, 18 did not exclude any diagnoses, while 12 excluded some (but not all) disorders. The most common diagnoses excluded were psychotic disorders, substance or alcohol abuse, and bipolar disorder (excluded in 26, 25 diflucan costo and 23 trials, respectively).

Only 7 of 51 trials clearly stated that all axis 1 diagnoses were excluded. This leaves only 13 studies providing any data about comorbidity diflucan costo. Of these, 9 gave partial data on one or two conditions, while 4 reported either the mean number of disorders (range 1.96–2.9) or the percentage of participants (range 68.1–96.7) with any comorbid diagnosis (Nierenberg 2003a, Nierenberg 2006, Watkins 2011a, Town 201715).The majority of trials (46/51) did not report the prevalence of PD.

Many stated PD as an exclusion criterion but without defining a threshold for exclusion. For example, PD could be excluded if it ‘impacted’ the depression, if it was ‘significant’, diflucan costo ‘severe’ or ‘persistent’. Some excluded certain PDs (such as antisocial or borderline) and not others but without reporting the prevalence of those not excluded.

In the five trials where prevalence was diflucan costo clear, prevalence ranged from 0% (Ravindran 2008a15), where all PDs were excluded, to 87.5% of the sample (Town 201715). Two studies reported the mean number of PDs. 2.0 (Nierenberg 2003a) and 0.85 (Watkins 2011a15).The majority of trials (43/51) did not report the prevalence of physical illness.

Many stated illness as an diflucan costo exclusion criterion, but the definitions and thresholds were vague and could be interpreted in different ways. For example, illness could be excluded if it was ‘unstable’, ‘serious’, ‘significant’, ‘relevant’, or would ‘contraindicate’ or ‘impact’ the medication. Of the eight trials diflucan costo reporting information about physical health, there was a wide variation.

Four reported prevalence varying from 7.6% having a disability (Eisendrath 201615) to 90.9% having an illness or disability (Town 201715). Four used scales of physical health. Two indicating mild problems (Nierenberg 2006, Lavretsky 201115) and two indicating moderately high levels of illness (Thase 2007, Fang 201015).The NICE diflucan costo review also divided trial populations into a dichotomy of ‘more severe’ and ‘less severe’ on the grounds that this would be a clinically useful classification for general practitioners.

NICE applied a bespoke methodology for creating this dichotomy, abandoning validated measure thresholds in order first to generate two ‘homogeneous’ groups to ‘facilitate analysis’, and second to create an algorithm to ‘read across’ different measures (such as the Beck Depression Inventory, the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) and the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale).16 Examining trials which use more than one of these measures reveals problems in the algorithm. Of the 51 trials, diflucan costo there are 6 instances in which the study population falls into NICE’s more severe category according to one measure and into the less severe category according to another. In four of these trials, NICE chose the less severe category (Souza 2016, Watkins 2011a, Fonagy 2015, Town 201715).

The other two trials were designated more severe (Barbee 2011, Dunner 200715). Only 17 of 51 trials reported two or more depression scale measures, leaving much diflucan costo unknown about whether other study populations could count as both more severe and less severe.Absence of knowledge or knowledge of absence?. A key philosophical error in science is to confuse an absence of knowledge with knowledge of absence.

It is likely that some of the study populations deemed lacking in complexity or severity diflucan costo could actually have high degrees of complexity and/or severity. Data to demonstrate this may either fall foul of a guideline committee decision to prioritise certain information over other conflicting information (as in the severity algorithm). The information may be non-existent as it was not collected.

It may be somewhere in diflucan costo the publication pipeline. Or it may be sitting in a database with a research team that has run out of funds for supplementary analyses. Wherever those data are or are not, their absence from published articles does not define the phenomenology of depression for the patients who took part diflucan costo.

As a case in point, data from the Fonagy 2015 trial presented at conferences but not published reveal that PD prevalence data would place the trial well within the NICE complex depression category, and that the sample had high levels of past trauma and physical condition comorbidity. The trial also meets the guideline criteria for CD according to the guideline’s own appendices.17 Reported axis 1 comorbidity was high (75.2% had anxiety disorder, 18.6% had substance abuse disorder, 13.2% had eating disorder).18 The mean depression scores at baseline were 36.5 on the Beck Depression Inventory and 20.1 on the HRSD (severe and very severe, respectively, according to published cut-off scores). NICE categorised this population as less severe TRD, not CD and diflucan costo not complex.Notes1.

Avram H. Mack et al diflucan costo. (1994), “A Brief History of Psychiatric Classification.

From the Ancients to DSM-IV,” Psychiatric Clinics 17, no. 3. 515–9.2.

R. P. Snaith (1987), “The Concepts of Mild Depression,” British Journal of Psychiatry 150, no.

3. 387.3. Susan McPherson and David Armstrong (2006), “Social Determinants of Diagnostic Labels in Depression,” Social Science &.

Gerald N. Grob (1991), “Origins of DSM-I. A Study in Appearance and Reality,” The American Journal of Psychiatry.

421–31.5. Wilson M. Compton and Samuel B.

Guze (1995), “The Neo-Kraepelinian Revolution in Psychiatric Diagnosis,” European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 245, no. 4. 198–9.6.

Gerald L. Klerman (1984), “A Debate on DSM-III. The Advantages of DSM-III,” The American Journal of Psychiatry.

539–42.7. Thomas E. Schacht (1985), “DSM-III and the Politics of Truth,” American Psychologist.

Theurer (2018), “Psychiatry Should Not Seek Mechanisms of Disorder,” Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 38, no. 4. 189–204.9.

Sami Timimi (2014), “No More Psychiatric Labels. Why Formal Psychiatric Diagnostic Systems Should Be Abolished,” Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology 14, no. 3.

208–15.10. Allen Frances et al. (1994), “DSM-IV Meets Philosophy,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.

A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine 19, no. 3. 207–18.11.

Andrea Jobst et al. (2016), “European Psychiatric Association Guidance on Psychotherapy in Chronic Depression Across Europe,” European Psychiatry 33. 20.12.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2018), Depression in Adults. Treatment and Management. Draft for Consultation, https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-cgwave0725/documents/full-guideline-updated, 507.13.

Ibid., 351–62.14. Ibid., 597.15. Note that in order to refer to specific trials reviewed in the guideline, rather than the full citation, the Study IDs from column A in appendix J5 have been used.

See www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-cgwave0725/documents/addendum-appendix-9 for details and full references.16. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2018), Depression in Adults. Treatment and Management.

Second Consultation on Draft Guideline – Stakeholder Comments Table, https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-cgwave0725/documents/consultation-comments-and-responses-2, 420–1.17. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2018), Depression in Adults, appendix J5.18. Peter Fonagy et al.

(2015), “Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Long-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression. The Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS),” World Psychiatry 14, no. 3.

312–21.19. American Psychological Association (2018), Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Depression in Children, Adolescents, and Young, Middle-aged, and Older Adults. Draft.20.

Jacqui Thornton (2018), “Depression in Adults. Campaigners and Doctors Demand Full Revision of NICE Guidance,” BMJ 361. K2681..

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Over the past 20 years, a large body of research has documented a relationship diflucan pill between higher nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and better patient outcomes, including shorter hospital stays, lower rates of failure to prevent mortality after an in-hospital complication, inpatient mortality for multiple types of patients, hospital-acquired pneumonia, unplanned http://junksanfrancisco.com/2013/12/post-from-site-test/ extubation, respiratory failure and cardiac arrest.1–5 In addition, patients report higher satisfaction when they are cared for in hospitals with higher staffing levels.6 7To date, most studies have not identified an ‘optimal’ nurse staffing ratio,8 which creates a challenge for determining appropriate staffing levels. If increasing nurse staffing always produces at least some improvement in the quality of care, how does one determine what staffing level is best?. This decision is ultimately an economic one, balancing the benefits of nurse staffing with the other options for which those resources could be used diflucan pill.

It is in this context that hospitals develop staffing plans, generally based on historical patterns of patient acuity.Practical challenges of nurse staffingHospital staffing plans provide the structure necessary for determining hiring and scheduling, but fall short for a number of reasons. First, there are multiple ways in which patient acuity can be measured, which can have diflucan pill measurable effects on the staffing levels resulting from acuity models.9 Second, patient volume and acuity can shift rapidly with changes in the volume of admissions, discharges and transfers between units. Third, staffing plans provide little guidance regarding the optimal mix of permanent staff, variable staff and externally contracted staff.The paper by Saville and colleagues10 in this issue of BMJ Quality &.

Safety addresses the latter two issues by applying a simulation model to identify diflucan pill the optimal target for baseline nurse staffing in order to minimise periods of understaffing. Included in this model is consideration of the extent to which hospitals should leverage temporary personnel (typically obtained through an external agency) to fill gaps. The model acknowledges the likelihood that a hospital cannot realistically prevent all shifts from having a shortfall diflucan pill of nurses at all times, as well as the reality that hospital managers lack information about the best balance between permanent and temporary staff.

In addition, the analysis includes a calculation of the costs of each staffing approach, drawing from the records of 81 inpatient wards in four hospital organisations.The application of sophisticated simulation models and other advanced analyticl approaches to analysis of nurse staffing has been limited to date, and this paper is an exemplar of the value of such research. Recent studies have used machine learning methods to forecast hospital discharge volume,11 a discrete event simulation model to determine nursing staff needs in a neonatal intensive care unit,12 and a prediction model using machine learning and hierarchical linear regression to link diflucan pill variation in nurse staffing with patient outcomes.13 This new study applied a unique Monte Carlo simulation model to estimate demand for nursing care and test different strategies to meet demand.The results of the analysis are not surprising in that hospitals are much less likely to experience understaffed patient shifts if they aim to have higher baseline staffing. The data demonstrate a notable leftward skew, indicating that hospitals are more likely to have large unanticipated increases in patient volume and acuity than to have unanticipated decreases.

This results in hospitals being more likely to have shifts that are understaffed than shifts that are overstaffed, which inevitably places pressure diflucan pill on hospitals to staff at a higher level and/or have access to a larger pool of temporary nurses. It also is not surprising that hospitals will need to spend more money per patient day if they aim to reduce the percent of shifts that are understaffed. What is surprising about the results is that hospitals do not necessarily achieve cost savings by relying on temporary personnel versus setting regular staffing at a higher level.Trade-offs between permanent and temporary staffThe temporary nursing workforce enables healthcare facilities to maintain flexible yet full care teams based on patient care needs.

Hospitals can use temporary nurses to address staffing gaps during leaves of absence, turnover or gaps between recruitment of permanent nurses, as well as during diflucan pill high-census periods. Temporary personnel are typically more expensive on an hourly basis than permanent staff. In addition, over-reliance on diflucan pill temporary staff can have detrimental effects on permanent nurses’ morale and motivation.

Orientations prior to shifts are often limited, which leads to a twofold concern as temporary nurses feel ill-prepared for shifts and permanent staff feel flustered when required to bring the temporary nurse up to speed while being expected to continue normal operations.14 Agency nurses may be assigned to patients and units that are incongruent with their experience and skills—either to unfamiliar units, which affects their ability to confidently deliver care, or to less complex patients where they feel as if their skills are not used adequately.14 15 These issues can create tension between temporary and permanent nursing staff, which can be compounded by the wage disparity. Permanent staff might feel demoralised and expendable when working alongside temporary staff who are not integrated into the social fabric of the staff.16Hospital managers diflucan pill also must be cognisant of the potential quality impact of relying heavily on temporary nursing staff. Research on the impact of contingent nursing employment on costs and quality have often found negative effects on quality, including mortality, and higher costs.17 18 However, other studies have found that the association between temporary nursing staff and low quality result from general shortages of nursing staff, which make a hospital more likely to employ temporary staff, and not directly from the contingent staff.19–21 Thus, temporary nurses play an important role in alleviating staffing shortages that would otherwise lead to lower quality of care.22Charting a path forward in hospital management and healthcare researchThe maturation of electronic health records and expansion of computerised healthcare management systems provide opportunities both for improved decision making about workforce deployment and for advanced workforce research.

In the area diflucan pill of workforce management, nursing and other leaders have a growing array of workforce planning tools available to them. Such tools are most effective when they display clear information about predicted patient needs and staff availability, but managers still must rely on their on-the-ground understanding of their staff and their context of patient care.23 Integration of human resources data with patient outcomes data has revealed that individual nurses and their characteristics have important discrete effects on the quality of care.24 25 Future development of workforce planning tools should translate this evidence to practice. In addition, new technology platforms are emerging to diflucan pill facilitate direct matching between temporary healthcare personnel and healthcare organisations.

One recent study tested a smartphone-based application that allowed for direct matching of locum tenens physicians with a hospital in the English National Health Service, finding that the platform generated benefits including greater transparency and lower cost.26 Similar technologies for registered nurses could facilitate better matching between hospital needs and temporary nurses’ preparedness to meet those needs.Analytical methods that fully leverage the large datasets compiled through electronic health records, human resources systems and other sources can be applied to advance research on the composition of nursing teams to improve quality of care. As noted above, prior research has applied machine learning and discrete diflucan pill event simulation to analyses of healthcare staffing. Other recent studies have leveraged natural language processing of nursing notes to identify fall risk factors27 and applied data mining of human resources records to understand the job titles held by nurses.28 Linking these rapidly advancing analytical approaches that assess the outcomes and costs of nurse staffing strategies, such as the work by Saville and colleagues published in this issue, to data on the impact of nurse staffing on the long-term costs of patient care will further advance the capacity of hospital leaders to design cost-effective policies for workforce deployment.Guidelines aim to align clinical care with best practice.

However, simply publishing a guideline rarely triggers behavioural changes to match guideline recommendations.1–3 We thus transform guideline recommendations into actionable tasks by introducing interventions that promote behavioural changes meant to produce guideline-concordant care. Unfortunately, not much has changed in the 25 years since Oxman and colleagues concluded that we have no ‘magic bullets’ when it comes to changing clinician behaviour.4 In fact, far from magic bullets, interventions aimed at increasing the degree to which patients receive care recommended in guidelines (eg, educational interventions, reminders, audit and feedback, financial incentives, computerised diflucan pill decision support) typically produce disappointingly small improvements in care.5–10Much improvement work aims to ‘make the right thing to do the easy thing to do.’ Yet, design solutions which hardwire the desired actions remain few and far between. Further, improvement interventions which ‘softwire’ such actions—not guaranteeing that they occur, but at least increasing the likelihood that clinicians will deliver the care recommended in guidelines—mostly produce small improvements.5–9 Until this situation changes, we need to acknowledge the persistent reality that guidelines themselves represent a main strategy for promoting care consistent with current evidence, which means their design should promote the desired actions.11 12In this respect, guidelines constitute a type of clinical decision support.

And, like all decision diflucan pill support interventions, guidelines require. (1) user testing to assess if the content is understood as intended and (2) empirical testing to assess if the decision support provided by the guideline does in fact promote the desired behaviours. While the processes for developing guidelines have received substantial attention over the years,13–18 surprisingly little attention has been paid to empirically answering basic questions about diflucan pill the finished product.

Do users understand guidelines as intended?. And, what version of diflucan pill a given guideline engenders the desired behaviours by clinicians?. In this issue of BMJ Quality and Safety, Jones et al19 address this gap by using simulation to compare the frequency of medication errors when clinicians administer an intravenous medication using an existing guideline in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) versus a revised and user-tested version of the guideline that more clearly promotes the desired actions.

Their findings demonstrate that changes to guideline design (through addition of actionable decision diflucan pill supports) based on user feedback does in fact trigger changes in behaviour that can improve safety. This is an exciting use of simulation, which we believe should encourage further studies in this vein.Ensuring end users understand and use guidelines as intendedJones and colleagues’ approach affords an opportunity to reflect on the benefits of user testing and simulation of guidelines. The design and diflucan pill evaluation of their revised guidelines provides an excellent example of a careful stepwise progression in the development and evaluation of a guideline as a type of decision support for clinicians.

First, in a prior study,20 they user tested the original NHS guidelines to improve retrieval and comprehension of information. The authors produced a revised guideline, which included reformatted sections as well as increased support for key calculations, such as for infusion rates. The authors again user tested the revised diflucan pill guideline, successfully showing higher rates of comprehension.

Note that user testing refers to a specific approach focused on comprehension rather than behaviour21 and is distinct from usability testing. Second, in the current study, Jones et al evaluated whether nurse and midwife end users exhibited the desired behavioural changes when given the revised guidelines (with addition of actionable decision supports), compared with a control group working with the current diflucan pill version of the guidelines used in practice. As a result, Jones and colleagues verify that end users (1) understand the content in the guideline and (2) actually change their behaviour in response to using it.Simulation can play a particularly useful role in this context, as it can help identify problems with users’ comprehension of the guideline and also empirically assess what behavioural changes occur in response to design changes in the guidelines.

The level of methodological control and qualitative detail that simulation provides is difficult to feasibly replicate with real-world pilot studies, and therefore simulation fills a critical gap.Jones et al report successful changes in behaviour due to the revised guidelines in which they added diflucan pill actionable decision supports. For example, their earlier user testing found that participants using the initial guidelines did not account for displacement volume when reconstituting the powdered drug, leading to dosing errors. A second error with the initial guidelines involved participants using the shortest infusion rate provided (eg, guidelines state ‘1 to 3 hours’), without realising that the shortest rate is diflucan pill not appropriate for certain doses (eg, 1 hour is appropriate for smaller doses, but larger doses should not be infused over 1 hour because the drug would then be administered faster than the maximum allowable infusion rate of 3 mg/kg/hour).

These two issues were addressed in the revised guidelines by providing key determinants for ‘action’ such as calculation formulas that account for displacement volume and infusion duration, thereby more carefully guiding end users to avoid these dose and rate errors. These changes to the diflucan pill guideline triggered specific behaviours (eg, calculations that account for all variables) that did not occur with the initial guidelines. Therefore, the simulation testing demonstrated the value of providing determinants for action, such as specific calculation formulas to support end users, by showing a clear reduction in dose and rate errors when using the revised guidelines compared with the initial guidelines.The authors also report that other types of medication-specific errors remained unaffected by the revised guidelines (eg, incorrect technique and flush errors)—the changes made did not facilitate the desired actions.

The initial guidelines indicate ‘DO NOT SHAKE’ in capital letters, and diflucan pill there is a section specific to ‘Flushing’. In contrast, the revised guidelines do not capitalise the warning about shaking the vial, but embed the warning with a numbered sequence in the medication preparation section, aiming to increase the likelihood of reading it at the appropriate time. The revised guidelines do not have a section specific to flushing, but embed the flushing instructions as an unnumbered step in the administration section.

Thus, the value of embedding technique and flushing information within the context of use was not validated in the simulation testing (ie, no significant differences in the diflucan pill rates of these errors), highlighting precisely the pivotal role that simulation can play in assessing whether attempts to improve usability result in actual behavioural changes.Finally, simulation can identify potential unintended consequences of a guideline. For instance, Jones and colleagues observed an increase in errors (although not statistically significant) that were not medication specific (eg, non-aseptic technique such as hand washing, swabbing vials with an alcohol wipe). Given that the revised guidelines were specific to the medication tested, it is unusual that we see a tendency diflucan pill toward a worsening effect on generic medication preparation skills.

Again, this finding was not significant, but we highlight this to remind ourselves of the very real possibility that some interventions might introduce new and unexpected errors in response to changing workflow and practice6. Simulations offer an opportunity to spot these risks in advance.Now that Jones et al have seen how the revised guidelines change behaviour, they are optimally positioned to move diflucan pill forward. On one hand, they have the option of revising the guidelines further in attempts to address these resistant errors, and on the other, they can consider designing other interventions to be implemented in parallel with their user-tested guidance.

At first glance, the errors that were resistant to change appear to be mechanical tasks that end users might think of as applying uniformly to diflucan pill multiple medications (eg, flush errors, non-aseptic technique). Therefore, a second intervention that has a more general scope (rather than drug specific) might be pursued. Regardless of what they diflucan pill decide to pursue, we applaud their measured approach and highlight that the key takeaway is that their next steps are supported with clearer evidence of what to expect when the guidelines are released—certainly a helpful piece of information to guide decisions as to whether broad implementation of guidelines is justified.Caveats and conclusionSimulation is not a panacea—it is not able to assess longitudinal adherence, and there are limitations to how realistically clinicians behave when observed for a few sample procedures when under the scrutiny of observers.

Further, studies where interventions are implemented to assess whether they move the needle on the outcomes we care about (eg, adverse events, length of stay, patient mortality) are needed and should continue. However, having end users physically perform clinical tasks with the intervention in representative environments represents an important diflucan pill strategy to assess the degree to which guidelines and other decision support interventions in fact promote the desired behaviours and to spot problems in advance of implementation. Such simulation testing is not currently a routine step in intervention design.

We hope it becomes a more common phenomenon, with more improvement work following the example of the approach so effectively demonstrated by Jones and colleagues..

Over the past 20 years, a large body diflucan costo of research has documented a relationship between higher nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and better patient outcomes, including shorter hospital stays, lower rates of failure to prevent mortality after an in-hospital complication, inpatient mortality for multiple types of patients, hospital-acquired pneumonia, unplanned extubation, respiratory failure and cardiac arrest.1–5 In addition, patients report higher satisfaction when they are cared for in hospitals with higher staffing levels.6 7To date, most studies have not identified an ‘optimal’ nurse staffing ratio,8 which http://www.storybones.net/bookstore/ds-press/ creates a challenge for determining appropriate staffing levels. If increasing nurse staffing always produces at least some improvement in the quality of care, how does one determine what staffing level is best?. This decision is ultimately an economic one, balancing the benefits of nurse staffing with the other options for which those resources could be diflucan costo used. It is in this context that hospitals develop staffing plans, generally based on historical patterns of patient acuity.Practical challenges of nurse staffingHospital staffing plans provide the structure necessary for determining hiring and scheduling, but fall short for a number of reasons.

First, there are multiple ways in which patient acuity can be measured, which can have measurable effects on the staffing levels resulting from acuity diflucan costo models.9 Second, patient volume and acuity can shift rapidly with changes in the volume of admissions, discharges and transfers between units. Third, staffing plans provide little guidance regarding the optimal mix of permanent staff, variable staff and externally contracted staff.The paper by Saville and colleagues10 in this issue of BMJ Quality &. Safety addresses the latter two issues by applying a simulation model to identify the optimal target for baseline nurse diflucan costo staffing in order to minimise periods of understaffing. Included in this model is consideration of the extent to which hospitals should leverage temporary personnel (typically obtained through an external agency) to fill gaps.

The model acknowledges the likelihood that a diflucan costo hospital cannot realistically prevent all shifts from having a shortfall of nurses at all times, as well as the reality that hospital managers lack information about the best balance between permanent and temporary staff. In addition, the analysis includes a calculation of the costs of each staffing approach, drawing from the records of 81 inpatient wards in four hospital organisations.The application of sophisticated simulation models and other advanced analyticl approaches to analysis of nurse staffing has been limited to date, and this paper is an exemplar of the value of such research. Recent studies have used machine learning methods to forecast hospital discharge volume,11 a discrete event simulation model to determine nursing staff needs in a neonatal intensive care unit,12 and a prediction model using machine learning and hierarchical linear regression to link variation in nurse staffing with patient outcomes.13 This new study applied a unique Monte Carlo simulation model to estimate demand for nursing care and test different strategies to meet demand.The results of the analysis are not surprising in that hospitals are much less likely to experience understaffed patient shifts if they aim to have diflucan costo higher baseline staffing. The data demonstrate a notable leftward skew, indicating that hospitals are more likely to have large unanticipated increases in patient volume and acuity than to have unanticipated decreases.

This results diflucan costo in hospitals being more likely to have shifts that are understaffed than shifts that are overstaffed, which inevitably places pressure on hospitals to staff at a higher level and/or have access to a larger pool of temporary nurses. It also is not surprising that hospitals will need to spend more money per patient day if they aim to reduce the percent of shifts that are understaffed. What is surprising about the results is that hospitals do not necessarily achieve cost savings by relying on temporary personnel versus setting regular staffing at a higher level.Trade-offs between permanent and temporary staffThe temporary nursing workforce enables healthcare facilities to maintain flexible yet full care teams based on patient care needs. Hospitals can use temporary nurses to address staffing gaps during leaves of absence, turnover diflucan costo or gaps between recruitment of permanent nurses, as well as during high-census periods.

Temporary personnel are typically more expensive on an hourly basis than permanent staff. In addition, over-reliance on temporary staff can have detrimental effects on permanent nurses’ morale and diflucan costo motivation. Orientations prior to shifts are often limited, which leads to a twofold concern as temporary nurses feel ill-prepared for shifts and permanent staff feel flustered when required to bring the temporary nurse up to speed while being expected to continue normal operations.14 Agency nurses may be assigned to patients and units that are incongruent with their experience and skills—either to unfamiliar units, which affects their ability to confidently deliver care, or to less complex patients where they feel as if their skills are not used adequately.14 15 These issues can create tension between temporary and permanent nursing staff, which can be compounded by the wage disparity. Permanent staff might feel demoralised and expendable when working alongside temporary staff who are not integrated into the social fabric of the staff.16Hospital managers also must be cognisant of the potential quality impact diflucan costo of relying heavily on temporary nursing staff.

Research on the impact of contingent nursing employment on costs and quality have often found negative effects on quality, including mortality, and higher costs.17 18 However, other studies have found that the association between temporary nursing staff and low quality result from general shortages of nursing staff, which make a hospital more likely to employ temporary staff, and not directly from the contingent staff.19–21 Thus, temporary nurses play an important role in alleviating staffing shortages that would otherwise lead to lower quality of care.22Charting a path forward in hospital management and healthcare researchThe maturation of electronic health records and expansion of computerised healthcare management systems provide opportunities both for improved decision making about workforce deployment and for advanced workforce research. In the area diflucan costo of workforce management, nursing and other leaders have a growing array of workforce planning tools available to them. Such tools are most effective when they display clear information about predicted patient needs and staff availability, but managers still must rely on their on-the-ground understanding of their staff and their context of patient care.23 Integration of human resources data with patient outcomes data has revealed that individual nurses and their characteristics have important discrete effects on the quality of care.24 25 Future development of workforce planning tools should translate this evidence to practice. In addition, new technology platforms are diflucan costo emerging to facilitate direct matching between temporary healthcare personnel and healthcare organisations.

One recent study tested a smartphone-based application that allowed for direct matching of locum tenens physicians with a hospital in the English National Health Service, finding that the platform generated benefits including greater transparency and lower cost.26 Similar technologies for registered nurses could facilitate better matching between hospital needs and temporary nurses’ preparedness to meet those needs.Analytical methods that fully leverage the large datasets compiled through electronic health records, human resources systems and other sources can be applied to advance research on the composition of nursing teams to improve quality of care. As noted above, prior research has applied machine learning and discrete event simulation to analyses of healthcare staffing diflucan costo. Other recent studies have leveraged natural language processing of nursing notes to identify fall risk factors27 and applied data mining of human resources records to understand the job titles held by nurses.28 Linking these rapidly advancing analytical approaches that assess the outcomes and costs of nurse staffing strategies, such as the work by Saville and colleagues published in this issue, to data on the impact of nurse staffing on the long-term costs of patient care will further advance the capacity of hospital leaders to design cost-effective policies for workforce deployment.Guidelines aim to align clinical care with best practice. However, simply publishing a guideline rarely triggers behavioural changes to match guideline recommendations.1–3 We thus transform guideline recommendations into actionable tasks by introducing interventions that promote behavioural changes meant to produce guideline-concordant care.

Unfortunately, not much has changed in the 25 years since Oxman and colleagues concluded that we have no ‘magic bullets’ when it comes to changing clinician behaviour.4 In fact, far from magic bullets, interventions aimed at increasing the degree to which patients receive care recommended in guidelines (eg, educational interventions, reminders, audit and feedback, financial incentives, computerised decision support) typically produce disappointingly small improvements in care.5–10Much improvement work aims to ‘make the right thing to do the diflucan costo easy thing to do.’ Yet, design solutions which hardwire the desired actions remain few and far between. Further, improvement interventions which ‘softwire’ such actions—not guaranteeing that they occur, but at least increasing the likelihood that clinicians will deliver the care recommended in guidelines—mostly produce small improvements.5–9 Until this situation changes, we need to acknowledge the persistent reality that guidelines themselves represent a main strategy for promoting care consistent with current evidence, which means their design should promote the desired actions.11 12In this respect, guidelines constitute a type of clinical decision support. And, like diflucan costo all decision support interventions, guidelines require. (1) user testing to assess if the content is understood as intended and (2) empirical testing to assess if the decision support provided by the guideline does in fact promote the desired behaviours.

While the processes for developing guidelines have received substantial diflucan costo attention over the years,13–18 surprisingly little attention has been paid to empirically answering basic questions about the finished product. Do users understand guidelines as intended?. And, what diflucan costo version of a given guideline engenders the desired behaviours by clinicians?. In this issue of BMJ Quality and Safety, Jones et al19 address this gap by using simulation to compare the frequency of medication errors when clinicians administer an intravenous medication using an existing guideline in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) versus a revised and user-tested version of the guideline that more clearly promotes the desired actions.

Their findings demonstrate that changes to guideline design diflucan costo (through addition of actionable decision supports) based on user feedback does in fact trigger changes in behaviour that can improve safety. This is an exciting use of simulation, which we believe should encourage further studies in this vein.Ensuring end users understand and use guidelines as intendedJones and colleagues’ approach affords an opportunity to reflect on the benefits of user testing and simulation of guidelines. The design and evaluation of their revised guidelines provides an excellent example of a careful stepwise progression in the development and evaluation of a guideline as diflucan costo a type of decision support for clinicians. First, in a prior study,20 they user tested the original NHS guidelines to improve retrieval and comprehension of information.

The authors produced a revised guideline, which included reformatted sections as well as increased support for key calculations, such as for infusion rates. The authors again diflucan costo user tested the revised guideline, successfully showing higher rates of comprehension. Note that user testing refers to a specific approach focused on comprehension rather than behaviour21 and is distinct from usability testing. Second, in the current study, Jones et al evaluated whether nurse and midwife end users exhibited the desired behavioural changes diflucan costo when given the revised guidelines (with addition of actionable decision supports), compared with a control group working with the current version of the guidelines used in practice.

As a result, Jones and colleagues verify that end users (1) understand the content in the guideline and (2) actually change their behaviour in response to using it.Simulation can play a particularly useful role in this context, as it can help identify problems with users’ comprehension of the guideline and also empirically assess what behavioural changes occur in response to design changes in the guidelines. The level of methodological control and qualitative detail that simulation provides is difficult to feasibly replicate with real-world pilot studies, and therefore simulation fills a critical gap.Jones et al report successful changes in behaviour due to the revised guidelines diflucan costo in which they added actionable decision supports. For example, their earlier user testing found that participants using the initial guidelines did not account for displacement volume when reconstituting the powdered drug, leading to dosing errors. A second error with the initial guidelines involved participants using the shortest infusion rate provided (eg, guidelines state ‘1 to 3 hours’), without realising that the shortest rate is not appropriate for certain doses diflucan costo (eg, 1 hour is appropriate for smaller doses, but larger doses should not be infused over 1 hour because the drug would then be administered faster than the maximum allowable infusion rate of 3 mg/kg/hour).

These two issues were addressed in the revised guidelines by providing key determinants for ‘action’ such as calculation formulas that account for displacement volume and infusion duration, thereby more carefully guiding end users to avoid these dose and rate errors. These changes to diflucan costo the guideline triggered specific behaviours (eg, calculations that account for all variables) that did not occur with the initial guidelines. Therefore, the simulation testing demonstrated the value of providing determinants for action, such as specific calculation formulas to support end users, by showing a clear reduction in dose and rate errors when using the revised guidelines compared with the initial guidelines.The authors also report that other types of medication-specific errors remained unaffected by the revised guidelines (eg, incorrect technique and flush errors)—the changes made did not facilitate the desired actions. The initial guidelines indicate ‘DO NOT SHAKE’ in capital letters, and there is a diflucan costo section specific to ‘Flushing’.

In contrast, the revised guidelines do not capitalise the warning about shaking the vial, but embed the warning with a numbered sequence in the medication preparation section, aiming to increase the likelihood of reading it at the appropriate time. The revised guidelines do not have a section specific to flushing, but embed the flushing instructions as an unnumbered step in the administration section. Thus, the diflucan costo value of embedding technique and flushing information within the context of use was not validated in the simulation testing (ie, no significant differences in the rates of these errors), highlighting precisely the pivotal role that simulation can play in assessing whether attempts to improve usability result in actual behavioural changes.Finally, simulation can identify potential unintended consequences of a guideline. For instance, Jones and colleagues observed an increase in errors (although not statistically significant) that were not medication specific (eg, non-aseptic technique such as hand washing, swabbing vials with an alcohol wipe).

Given that the revised guidelines were specific to the medication tested, it is unusual that we see a tendency diflucan costo toward a worsening effect on generic medication preparation skills. Again, this finding was not significant, but we highlight this to remind ourselves of the very real possibility that some interventions might introduce new and unexpected errors in response to changing workflow and practice6. Simulations offer an opportunity to spot diflucan costo these risks in advance.Now that Jones et al have seen how the revised guidelines change behaviour, they are optimally positioned to move forward. On one hand, they have the option of revising the guidelines further in attempts to address these resistant errors, and on the other, they can consider designing other interventions to be implemented in parallel with their user-tested guidance.

At first glance, the errors that were resistant to change appear to be mechanical tasks that end users might think of as applying diflucan costo uniformly to multiple medications (eg, flush errors, non-aseptic technique). Therefore, a second intervention that has a more general scope (rather than drug specific) might be pursued. Regardless of what they decide to pursue, we applaud their measured approach and highlight that the key takeaway is that their next steps are supported with clearer evidence of what to expect when the guidelines are released—certainly a helpful piece of information to guide decisions as to whether broad implementation of guidelines is justified.Caveats and conclusionSimulation is not a panacea—it is not able to assess longitudinal adherence, and there are limitations diflucan costo to how realistically clinicians behave when observed for a few sample procedures when under the scrutiny of observers. Further, studies where interventions are implemented to assess whether they move the needle on the outcomes we care about (eg, adverse events, length of stay, patient mortality) are needed and should continue.

However, having end users physically perform clinical tasks with the intervention in representative environments represents an important strategy to assess the degree to which guidelines and other decision support interventions in fact promote the desired behaviours and to spot problems in advance of implementation diflucan costo. Such simulation testing is not currently a routine step in intervention design. We hope it becomes a more common phenomenon, with more improvement work following the example of the approach so effectively demonstrated by Jones and colleagues..