A review of socioeconomic factors associated with acute myocardial infarction-related mortality and hospital readmissions.

Background: Risk-adjustment models are widely used methodological approaches within the healthcare industry to measure hospital performance and quality of care. However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) do not fully adjust for socioeconomic status (SES) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) models. A review and evidence synthesis was conducted to identify associations of SES factors with hospital readmission and mortality in AMI patients.

Oro-mucosal midazolam maleate: Use and effectiveness in adults with epilepsy in the UK.

Background: Oro-mucosal midazolam maleate (OMM) with suitable training to family and carers is being increasingly recognized as the treatment of choice to mitigate the development of status epilepticus in non-hospital community settings. There are no studies to describe the use, effectiveness, and suitable dosing of OMM in adults with epilepsy in community settings.

Purpose: To describe the use, effectiveness, and dosing of OMM in the emergency treatment of epileptic seizures in community settings.

Management of corneal epithelial defects in a population of mature chuck-will's-widows (Antrostomus carolinensis) in South Florida.

Purpose: To describe ocular clinical findings, gross/histopathologic findings, and treatment regimens in a series of migratory chuck-will's-widows (Antrostomus carolinensis) (CWW) with corneal epithelial defects.

Methods: Seven CWW were presented to the South Florida Wildlife Center (SFWC). Four presented with bilateral (OU) corneal ulceration; two developed corneal ulceration OU; one had no ocular lesions.

Text Messaging to Enhance Mindfulness-Based Smoking Cessation Treatment: Program Development Through Qualitative Research.

Background: Mindfulness-based programs show promise for promoting smoking cessation in diverse populations. Mobile health strategies could increase treatment engagement and in-the-moment support, thus enhancing the effects of mindfulness-based smoking cessation interventions. However, most mobile health programs have been developed without sufficient input from the target population.

Cardiac rehabilitation for the treatment of women with chest pain and normal coronary arteries.

Objective: To explore cardiac rehabilitation (CR) as a treatment for psychological and physiological morbidity in women with chest pain and normal coronary arteries (cardiac syndrome X).

Design: Sixty-four women aged 57.3+/-8.

Immune-related, lectin-like receptors are differentially expressed in the myeloid and lymphoid lineages of zebrafish.

The identification of C-type lectin (Group V) natural killer (NK) cell receptors in bony fish has remained elusive. Analyses of the Fugu rubripes genome database failed to identify Group V C-type lectin domains (Zelensky and Gready, BMC Genomics 5:51, 2004) suggesting that bony fish, in general, may lack such receptors. Numerous Group II C-type lectin receptors, which are structurally similar to Group V (NK) receptors, have been characterized in bony fish.