Ohio Presents Opportunities For Understanding Hospital Alignment With Public Health Agencies On Community Health Assessments.

Multisector collaboration is critical for improving population health. Improving alignment between nonprofit hospitals and local health departments is one promising approach to achieving health improvement, and a number of states are exploring policies to facilitate such collaboration. Using public documents, we evaluated the alignment between Ohio nonprofit hospitals and local health departments in the community health needs they identify and those they prioritize.

Assessment of Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Comparative Study of Clinical and Laboratory Evaluation with Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography Assessment.

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease and musculoskeletal ultrasonography (USG) is gaining popularity for assessing the disease activity bed side, objectively and cost effectively. There is paucity of such studies from India which establish the correlation between RA disease activity and musculoskeletal USG.

Objective: The objective of this study was to compare the disease activity scores in RA patients, assessed by 'clinical and laboratory evaluation' with 'musculoskeletal ultrasound scoring of the affected joints.

Last Breath in the Emergency Department.

Background: Early and aggressive time to intervention has been shown to increase the odds of survival and decrease mortality in critically ill patients. Since emergency medicine is a nascent specialty in India, a review and assessment of the mortality profile in the Emergency Department (ED) would help improve the quality of care.

Aims: The aim of the study is to determine the mortality profile and causes of preventable deaths at large ED in South India.

Hospitalist Versus Subspecialist Perspectives on Reasons, Timing, and Impact of Consultation.

Background: Hospitalists frequently consult medical subspecialists in the management of inpatients. Given the potential impact on health resource utilization, it is important to understand the working relationship between these groups.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey of hospitalists, n = 655, and subspecialists across Ohio (nephrologists and endocrinologists), n = 293, was conducted to investigate perceptions and communication about reasons, timing, and impact of hospital consultations.

Loss of the tumor suppressor Pten promotes proliferation of Drosophila melanogaster cells in vitro and gives rise to continuous cell lines.

In vivo analysis of Drosophila melanogaster has enhanced our understanding of many biological processes, notably the mechanisms of heredity and development. While in vivo analysis of mutants has been a strength of the field, analyzing fly cells in culture is valuable for cell biological, biochemical and whole genome approaches in which large numbers of homogeneous cells are required. An efficient genetic method to derive Drosophila cell lines using expression of an oncogenic form of Ras (Ras(V12)) has been developed.