Rhode Island Department of Health

Implementing Mental Health and Substance Use Screening at a Sexual Health Clinic.

PURPOSE: Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals experience heightened mental health problems and substance misuse. Improved approaches to screening for behavioral health in this population are needed. We evaluated the implementation of a digital intake platform incorporatin...

Assessing Public Health and Preventative Health Needs of Underserved Communities in Rhode Island.

BACKGROUND: In the United States, significant disparities exist in preventative health among underserved communities, including African American/Black (AA/B), Hispanic/Latino (H/L) and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/ queer (LGBTQ+) individuals. We explored the influence of soci...

Role of the School Nurse in Providing School Health Services: Policy Statement

School nursing has evolved into an essential field bridging health care and education. School nurses play multifaceted roles, addressing direct care, care coordination, public health, leadership, and quality improvement. They manage communicable diseases, chronic conditions, ment...

Beyond ‘diagnostic error’: an ethnography of resilient behaviours and system adaptations in paediatric outpatient diagnosis

Background Improving paediatric diagnosis by addressing errors (Safety-I) is insufficient for diagnostic excellence. Resilience engineering’s approach to understanding adaptations to achieve success in everyday work may elucidate how individuals and systems manage diagnostic comp...

Opioid, Buprenorphine, Benzodiazepine, Naloxone, and Stimulant Prescriptions Dispensed to Rhode Island Residents, 2022-2025.

BACKGROUND: The Rhode Island Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (RI PDMP) captures dispensation records for controlled substance prescriptions in Schedules II-V and opioid antagonists dispensed in RI or to RI residents in other states. METHODS: This report uses RI PDMP data fro...