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    Anxiety and Mood Disorders Impacting Physician Opioid Prescribing in the Pediatric Hospital Setting

    This research examined whether pediatric inpatients without an anxiety/mood disorder are more likely to receive opioids in response to pain compared to patients diagnosed with a mental health condition. Resear...

    Candice D. Donaldson, Zeev N. Kain in Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical … (2021)

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    Race, Ethnicity, and Insurance: the Association with Opioid Use in a Pediatric Hospital Setting

    This study examined the association between race/ethnicity and health insurance payer type with pediatric opioid and non-opioid ordering in an inpatient hospital setting.

    Louis Ehwerhemuepha, Candice D. Donaldson in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Dispar… (2021)

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    Racial and ethnic disparities in opioid use for adolescents at US emergency departments

    Racial/ethnic disparities in the use of opioids to treat pain disorders have been previously reported in the emergency department (ED). Further research is needed to better evaluate the impact race/ethnicity m...

    Michael T. Phan, Daniel M. Tomaszewski, Cody Arbuckle, Sun Yang in BMC Pediatrics (2021)

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    Predictors of inpatient morbidity and mortality in adult spinal deformity surgery

    This nationwide study identifies ASD surgical risk factors for morbidity/mortality.

    Nancy Worley, Bryan Marascalchi, Cyrus M. Jalai, Sun Yang in European Spine Journal (2016)

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    Poorly differentiated component in gastric pinch biopsies predicts submucosal invasion

    Endoscopic resection has become standard therapy for selected patients with early gastric carcinoma (EGC). However, the preoperative diagnostic accuracy for excluding submucosal (SM) invasion is not precise. M...

    Sun-Mi Lee, Sun Yang, Mee Joo, Kyoung-Mee Kim, Cheol Keun Park in Diagnostic Pathology (2014)

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    Thinking About the Role (Largely Ignored) of Heavy Metals in Cancer Prevention: Hexavalent Chromium and Melanoma as a Case in Point

    Ultraviolet (UV) light exposure accounts for only 40–50% of the attributable risk for cutaneous melanoma (CM); also classical UV-induced lesions are rare in melanomas (especially among CM with NRAS or BRAF mut...

    Frank L. Meyskens, Sun Yang in Clinical Cancer Prevention (2011)