Behavioral Sciences Program News Today

Physicians who are notified that a patient has died of a drug overdose are more judicious in issuing controlled substances if the notification includes a plan for what to do during subsequent patient visits, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.

Notifying physicians of overdose deaths, with follow-up plans, curbs controlled substance prescriptions: Nature Communications.

Showing people how their behavior compares to their peers is a commonly used method to improve behavior. But in the wake of a global pandemic that exacerbated health care providers' job dissatisfaction and burnout, questions remain about the potentially negative effects of peer comparison on the well-being of clinicians.

A new study from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics reveals fresh insights into the relationship between peer comparison and job satisfaction among clinicians. To avoid negative impact, the research team discovered it is important for clinicians to have control over the behavior being evaluated or encouraged, such as ordering tests or whether to prescribe medication. The results challenge prior findings that peer comparison increases job dissatisfaction and burnout.

There are no simple solutions to America's deadly overdose epidemic, which costs 100,000 lives each year and is erasing gains in life expectancy.

One partial solution to the U.S. opioid crisis is to tell doctors when their patients have died from an overdose, a study published Friday suggests.

64 Citation Laureates named by the Institute for Scientific Information have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize LONDON, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a global

64 Citation Laureates named by the Institute for Scientific Information have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize LONDON, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Clarivate Plc(NYSE: CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today named 20 world-class researchers from four countries as Citation Laureates. These are researchers whose work is deemed to be 'of Nobel class', as demonstrated by analysis carried out by the Institute for Scienti...

Universal COVID-19 vaccine adoption will require a coordinated and creative strategy January 25, 2021USC The demand for COVID-19 vaccines currently outstrips supply, but at some point in the next few months that will likely reverse.  Yet likely adoption of the vaccine may be waning.  According to a survey of Americans conducted in December, only 63% of individuals surveyed said they would take the COVID-19 vaccine, down from 83% in March. “That suggests that we need to have good strategies ...