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Curr Psychiatry Rep ; 25(1): 1-6, 2023 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36480149

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this paper is to review key lessons when using telehealth within the context of mental health and homelessness. We examine technological and bandwidth issues the homeless population might face when getting telehealth services, discuss clinical process adaption needed for working remotely, and highlight the lessons learned when leveraging mental health services to homeless patients across telehealth platforms. RECENT FINDINGS: Homelessness is associated with chronic, mental health disparities and access to mental health services is often less accessible among communities with unstable housing. Telehealth provides "OnDemand" treatment options while removing specific barriers found with in-person health care such as transportation, overwhelmed mental health facilities, i.e., appointment availability, and office hour limitations while reducing costs for both providers and patients. We provide two case examples to demonstrate successful delivery of telemental health services to homeless patients and review lessons learned when leveraging care.


Subject(s)
Ill-Housed Persons , Mental Health Services , Telemedicine , Humans , Mental Health , Housing
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Curr Psychiatry Rep ; 23(5): 27, 2021 03 24.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33761011

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The purpose of this paper is to review the application of telehealth in the assessment and treatment of psychotic illnesses. We present the contextual factors which make this approach to clinical care compelling, and review existing evidence about feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness. RECENT FINDINGS: The use of telehealth with individuals that suffer from serious mental illness and psychosis has been demonstrated to be feasible and acceptable, with effectiveness that is comparable to in-person clinical care. Telehealth holds the additional promises of expanding access, connecting patients, families, and the general public to behavioral health resources, and reducing overall health care costs. We provide two case examples which demonstrate the successful use of technology for the delivery and coordination of effective patient care for individuals with psychotic illnesses.


Subject(s)
Psychotic Disorders , Telemedicine , Humans , Psychotic Disorders/diagnosis , Psychotic Disorders/therapy
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Blood ; 127(24): 3004-14, 2016 06 16.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26966091

ABSTRACT

The spectrum of somatic alterations in hematologic malignancies includes substitutions, insertions/deletions (indels), copy number alterations (CNAs), and a wide range of gene fusions; no current clinically available single assay captures the different types of alterations. We developed a novel next-generation sequencing-based assay to identify all classes of genomic alterations using archived formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded blood and bone marrow samples with high accuracy in a clinically relevant time frame, which is performed in our Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments-certified College of American Pathologists-accredited laboratory. Targeted capture of DNA/RNA and next-generation sequencing reliably identifies substitutions, indels, CNAs, and gene fusions, with similar accuracy to lower-throughput assays that focus on specific genes and types of genomic alterations. Profiling of 3696 samples identified recurrent somatic alterations that impact diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy selection. This comprehensive genomic profiling approach has proved effective in detecting all types of genomic alterations, including fusion transcripts, which increases the ability to identify clinically relevant genomic alterations with therapeutic relevance.


Subject(s)
DNA Fingerprinting/methods , Gene Expression Profiling/methods , Genomics/methods , Hematologic Neoplasms/genetics , Hematologic Neoplasms/metabolism , Chromosome Aberrations , Clinical Laboratory Techniques/methods , DNA Mutational Analysis/methods , DNA, Neoplasm/analysis , Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic , Hematologic Neoplasms/pathology , High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing , Humans , Mutation , Polymorphism, Genetic , RNA, Neoplasm/analysis , Sensitivity and Specificity , Systems Integration
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Hum Mol Genet ; 21(6): 1325-35, 2012 Mar 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22140090

ABSTRACT

Multiple intergenic single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) near hedgehog interacting protein (HHIP) on chromosome 4q31 have been strongly associated with pulmonary function levels and moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, whether the effects of variants in this region are related to HHIP or another gene has not been proven. We confirmed genetic association of SNPs in the 4q31 COPD genome-wide association study (GWAS) region in a Polish cohort containing severe COPD cases and healthy smoking controls (P = 0.001 to 0.002). We found that HHIP expression at both mRNA and protein levels is reduced in COPD lung tissues. We identified a genomic region located ∼85 kb upstream of HHIP which contains a subset of associated SNPs, interacts with the HHIP promoter through a chromatin loop and functions as an HHIP enhancer. The COPD risk haplotype of two SNPs within this enhancer region (rs6537296A and rs1542725C) was associated with statistically significant reductions in HHIP promoter activity. Moreover, rs1542725 demonstrates differential binding to the transcription factor Sp3; the COPD-associated allele exhibits increased Sp3 binding, which is consistent with Sp3's usual function as a transcriptional repressor. Thus, increased Sp3 binding at a functional SNP within the chromosome 4q31 COPD GWAS locus leads to reduced HHIP expression and increased susceptibility to COPD through distal transcriptional regulation. Together, our findings reveal one mechanism through which SNPs upstream of the HHIP gene modulate the expression of HHIP and functionally implicate reduced HHIP gene expression in the pathogenesis of COPD.


Subject(s)
Carrier Proteins/genetics , Carrier Proteins/metabolism , Enhancer Elements, Genetic/genetics , Membrane Glycoproteins/genetics , Membrane Glycoproteins/metabolism , Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/genetics , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/pathology , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Alleles , Blotting, Western , Bronchi/cytology , Bronchi/metabolism , Case-Control Studies , Cells, Cultured , Chromatin Immunoprecipitation , Chromosome Mapping , Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4/genetics , Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay , Female , Fibroblasts/cytology , Fibroblasts/metabolism , Genetic Predisposition to Disease , Genotype , Haplotypes/genetics , Humans , Lung/cytology , Lung/metabolism , Male , Middle Aged , Prognosis , Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/metabolism , Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction , Smoking/genetics , Sp3 Transcription Factor/metabolism
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