Jacob Dougherty

Introduction: Shared decision making is a collaborative process where patients and clinicians work together to understand the patient's situation and to determine how best to address it. While shared decision...

Objective: Patient-clinician goal concordance is associated with improved outcomes in certain chronic diseases but not explored in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We examined goal concordance, correlates of concordance, and the association...

Background: Medication for opioid use disorder, including buprenorphine and methadone, is considered the gold standard treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). As the number of patients receiving buprenorphine has grown,...

Background: A growing body of research has examined adjunctive interventions supportive of engagement and retention in treatment among patients receiving buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD). We conducted a systematic...

Objective: Treatment guidelines for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) include a patient-centered approach and shared decision making, which includes a discussion of patient goals. We describe the iterative early development of a...

Background: Pickleball is growing rapidly with a passionate senior following. Understanding and comparing players' injury experience through analysis of a nationally representative hospital emergency department sample helps inform senior injury...

Alternative HIV testing strategies are needed to engage individuals not reached by traditional clinical or non-clinical testing programs. A social networks recruitment strategy, in which people at risk for or...