Postcrisis Follow-Up and Linkage to Community Services.

During the postcrisis period, many individuals struggle to transition to available care, often falling through the cracks. This article discusses effective postcrisis approaches that provide rapid access to transitional team-based care using critical time intervention strategies. It also highlights the development of state, county, and funder models for "care-traffic control" to ensure swift linkage to follow-up services, along with new funding models that support intensive community crisis stabilization during the postcrisis period.

Controversies and Conundrums in Cardiac Cachexia: Key Questions About Wasting in Patients With HFrEF.

Cardiac cachexia is characterized by unintentional catabolic weight loss, decreased appetite, and inflammation and is common in patients with stage D (advanced) heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). Cardiac cachexia and related muscle-wasting syndromes are markers of, and a consequence of, the heart failure (HF) syndrome. Although many potential modalities for identifying cardiac cachexia exist, the optimal definition, diagnostic tools, and treatment options for cardiac cachexia remain unclear.

Automatic Segmentation of Membranous Glottal Gap Area with U-Net-Based Architecture.

Background: While videostroboscopy is recognized as the most popular approach for investigating vocal fold function, evaluating the numerical values, such as the membranous glottal gap area, remains too time consuming for clinical applications.

Methods: We used a total of 2507 videostroboscopy images from 137 patients and developed five U-Net-based deep-learning image segmentation models for automatic masking of the membranous glottal gap area. To further validate the models, we used another 410 images from 41 different patients.

Policy Implications of the Southern and Central Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research: Ten Years of Malaria Control Impact Assessments in Hypo-, Meso-, and Holoendemic Transmission Zones in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR) were established by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases more than a decade ago to provide multidisciplinary research support to malaria control programs worldwide, operating in endemic areas and contributing technology, expertise, and ultimately policy guidance for malaria control and elimination. The Southern and Central Africa ICEMR has conducted research across three main sites in Zambia and Zimbabwe that differ in ecology, entomology, transmission intensity, and control strategies. Scientific findings led to new policies and action by the national malaria control programs and their partners in the selection of methods, materials, timing, and locations of case management and vector control.

Scientific Findings of the Southern and Central Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research: Ten Years of Malaria Control Impact Assessments in Hypo-, Meso-, and Holoendemic Transmission Zones in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

For a decade, the Southern and Central Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research has operated with local partners across study sites in Zambia and Zimbabwe that range from hypo- to holoendemic and vary ecologically and entomologically. The burden of malaria and the impact of control measures were assessed in longitudinal cohorts, cross-sectional surveys, passive and reactive case detection, and other observational designs that incorporated multidisciplinary scientific approaches: classical epidemiology, geospatial science, serosurveillance, parasite and mosquito genetics, and vector bionomics. Findings to date have helped elaborate the patterns and possible causes of sustained low-to-moderate transmission in southern Zambia and eastern Zimbabwe and recalcitrant high transmission and fatality in northern Zambia.