The Early Steps to Transplant Access Registry (E-STAR) dashboard: center-specific reporting on prewaitlisting data to improve access to kidney transplantation.

Purpose Of Review: The 2022 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report highlighted inequities in access to kidney transplantation and called for a comprehensive dashboard highlighting early transplant steps, yet data on steps such as referral and evaluation start are limited. Addressing this gap is crucial for improving equity in access to transplantation.

Recent Findings: The Early Steps to Transplant Access Registry (E-STAR) provides a model for how prewaitlisting data can be used to inform quality improvement to drive equity in access to transplantation.

Medicaid managed care network adequacy standards and mental health care access.

Objectives: Medicaid is the largest payer of mental health (MH) services in the US, and more than 80% of its enrollees are covered by Medicaid managed care (MMC). States are required to establish quantitative network adequacy standards (NAS) to regulate MMC plans' MH care access. We examined the association between quantitative NAS and MH care access among Medicaid-enrolled adults and among those with MH conditions.

Evaluation of autophagic and apoptotic markers during infection with animal virus causing hemorrhagic fever in rabbits.

Introduction: /GI.1 and GI.2 cause severe Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease, and immune processes are among the important pathomechanisms of the disease.

Sex-Dependent Differences in the Elemental Composition of Internal Organs Determined via Total Reflection X-Ray Fluorescence and Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy.

Background: Research on elemental changes in tissues and organs provides valuable information enabling better understanding of the physiological processes occurring in a living organism, as well as the pathogenesis and course of various diseases. They may also contribute to the development of new, more effective, and safer therapeutic strategies. So far, they have been carried out mainly on male individuals because of the easier planning and conducting of experiments as well as the lower variability of the results in comparison with studies involving females.

Which risk factors are involved in a distal biceps tendon injury? A systematic review.

Distal biceps tendon rupture is a rare injury predominately occurring in middle-aged men. This study aimed to collect relevant risk factors associated with distal biceps tendon rupture from the published literature. This systematic review aimed to collect and tabulate the risk factors for distal biceps tendon rupture.