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2012 Recommendations for the Treatment of Maladaptive Aggression in Youth (T-MAY) were recently published in the journal Pediatrics. Learn about the recommendations and the Rutgers CERT Center role in their development. 

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has released updated prostate cancer screening guidelines accompanied by patient decision aids. 

In this research project, the Cincinnati Children's Hospital CERT showed how research data can be efficiently integrated into everyday practice so that improved patient care and outcomes can be realized more quickly.

This Web page contains tables that describe potential management strategies for 16 drug-drug interactions, including the effects (e.g., pharmacokinetic, pharmacokinetic, clinical) and mechanisms of potential drug-drug interaction, the propensity for related drugs to interact, and options for clinical management.  The tables can serve as an educational tool; it is not to be a guide for medical practice. 

This Web page includes 4 drug lists grouped by their relative risk of inducing Torsades de Pointes or prolonged QT; a searchable database of drugs by brand and generic names; and a list of links to PubMed for literature searches of listed drugs. These lists are updated quarterly. 

This overview explains the long QT syndrome and its associated life-threatening arrhythmia, torsades de pointes. Because this syndrome can occur as a life-threatening side-effect of so many medications, the overview has been written for all physicians and health-care providers who must be able to recognize and manage it.

This interactive Web page shows the complex network of causes for adverse drug events from the patient's perspective. It includes evidence summaries and can be used as a tool for education or research.

An article describing this diagram was published in the September 2006 issue of Patient Counseling and Health Education. Read the abstract.

The Registry for Drug-Induced Arrhythmias, collects information on drug-induced prolongation or elongation of the QT interval. Clinicians can enter data on patients suspected of having QT prolongation, arrythmias, or cardiac arrest due to a drug or drug combination. Information collected through the registry is applied to prevent future cases.

This Toolkit provides clinicians with a systematic, evidence-based approach to diagnosing, assessing, and treating maladaptive aggression in children and adolscents.

This collection of materials introduces a new communication tool that is based on the principles of effective standardized communication. Designed for nurses, the  materials focus on methods and techniques to improve communications with physicians about warfarin. However, the methods have been used to address a variety of communication challenges in diverse settings.