Necrotising fasciitis, invasive Group A Streptococcus (iGAS) infection; a case series of 8 patients requiring surgical debridement in one trauma unit within 9 months.

Necrotising fasciitis (NF) is a rare but life-threatening skin and soft tissue infection. It requires urgent surgical debridement. The most common cause of monomicrobial NF is invasive Group A Streptococcus (IGAS).

Lessons From the Coronavirus Disease Experience: Research Participant and Staff Satisfaction With Remote Cognitive Evaluations.

Objective: In New York City in 2020 the pandemic shut down in-person research. Icahn School of Medicine's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center transitioned longitudinal evaluations from in-person to telephone to enhance equity of access. We assessed diverse research participants' and clinical research coordinators' (CRC) satisfaction with remote evaluation and examined sociodemographic, cognitive, and behavioral factors that might impact satisfaction.

The use of subjective cognitive complaints for detecting mild cognitive impairment in older adults across cultural and linguistic groups: A comparison of the Cognitive Function Instrument to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

Introduction: This pilot study aims to explore the psychometric properties of the Cognitive Function Instrument (CFI) as a measure of subjective cognitive complaints (SCC) and its performance in distinguishing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from normal control (NC) compared to an objective cognitive screen (Montreal Cognitive Assessment [MoCA]).

Methods: One hundred ninety-four community-dwelling non-demented older adults with racial/ethnic diversity were included. Unidimensionality and internal consistency of the CFI were examined using factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha, and McDonald's omega.

Smartphone ownership and usage in Chinese- and English-speaking older adults.

Background: Data collection by smartphone is becoming more widespread in healthcare research. Previous studies reported racial/ethnical differences in the use of digital health technology. However, cross-language group comparison (Chinese- and English-speaking older adults) were not performed in these studies.

Mail and Telephone Outreach from Electronic Health Records for Research Participation on Cognitive Health and Aging.

Objectives: This report describes the efficacy and utility of recruiting older individuals by mail to participate in research on cognitive health and aging using Electronic Health Records (EHR).

Methods: Individuals age 65 or older identified by EHR in the Mount Sinai Health System as likely to have Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) were sent a general recruitment letter (N=12,951). A comparison group of individuals with comparable age and matched for gender also received the letter (N=3,001).