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Fentanyl testing rate up to nearly 14% of overdose ED encounters, still lags behind opiate testing.

Overall age at breast cancer diagnosis has remained fairly steady since 2018, but there is wide variability in average age at diagnosis between racial and ethnic groups.

More than 60% of patients with cystic fibrosis who died in 2022 were 60 years of age or older.

Patients receive a take-home buprenorphine prescription at fewer than 8% of ED encounters related to opioid use disorder and at fewer than 2% of ED encounters related to opioid overdose when those encounters don’t result in an admission.

Several types of cancer and many chronic diseases are frequently diagnosed within a year of a patient’s first Medicare visit.

Patients prescribed both opioids and pregabalin are at a 42% greater risk of developing opioid use disorder (OUD) than patients prescribed only opioids.

Children who have turned two years old since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic are more likely to experience speech delays than children who turned two before the pandemic.

Despite coding changes to reduce documentation burden, providers are writing longer notes than they did three years ago.

Same-specialty in-person follow-up in the 90 days following an appointment was more common for in-person visits than telehealth visits.

ADHD medications are prescribed about 60% of the time within 30 days of an initial ADHD visit both for telehealth and in-person visits.

Even without a history of depression, mothers with ADHD are at an increased risk of being diagnosed with postpartum depression than mothers without ADHD.

Prenatal depression is associated with a 54.9% increase in risk of autism spectrum disorders in children.

Pediatric patients who received the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine had lower rates of COVID-19-related emergency visits compared to children who had not received any COVID-19 vaccine.

After an initial myocardial infarction, patients prescribed a beta blocker did not show improvement in the rate of subsequent myocardial infarction within the next year.

Only 18.8% of 9-11-year-olds and 5.5% of 2-8-year-olds with identified cardiovascular risk are screened for high lipid levels, which are known to increase cardiovascular disease risk.

Chronic kidney disease was diagnosed earlier in 2021 and 2022 compared to previous years as shown by increases in average estimated globular filtration rate (eGFR) at initial diagnosis.

Cardiovascular conditions are less common in the 30 days after mRNA monovalent or bivalent vaccination than after influenza vaccination.

Two in three Mpox cases prevented in patients fully vaccinated with JYNNEOS. Even one dose of JYNNEOS provided some protection against Mpox infection.

In patients prescribed antidepressants, the greatest risk of novel self-harm is seen in the first weeks of initial treatment and not after stopping treatment.

Ketamine is increasingly being used for treating depression. Despite an increasing rate of ketamine prescriptions and concern regarding misuse, ketamine overdoses have remained infrequent.