Development and Piloting of a Community-Partnered Heart Failure Training Course for Home Health Care Workers.

Background: Despite their unique contributions to heart failure (HF) care, home healthcare workers (HHWs) have unmet educational needs and many lack HF caregiving self-efficacy. To address this, we used a community-partnered approach to develop and pilot a HF training course for HHWs.

Methods: We partnered with the Training and Employment Fund, a benefit fund of the largest healthcare union in the United States, to develop a 2-hour virtual HF training course that met HHWs' job-specific needs.

Experiences of Home Health Care Workers in New York City During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis.

Importance: Home health care workers care for community-dwelling adults and play an important role in supporting patients with confirmed and suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who remain at home. These workers are mostly middle-aged women and racial/ethnic minorities who typically earn low wages. Despite being integral to patient care, these workers are often neglected by the medical community and society at large; thus, developing a health care system capable of addressing the COVID-19 crisis and future pandemics requires a better understanding of the experiences of home health care workers.

The relationship between head posture and severity and disability of patients with neck pain.

Study Design: A cross-sectional correlation study.

Objectives: To investigate the relationship between head posture with pain and disability in patients with neck pain.

Method: Sixty-two subjects with neck pain and 52 normal subjects were recruited by convenience sampling.

Peripheral antinociceptive effect of an adenosine kinase inhibitor, with augmentation by an adenosine deaminase inhibitor, in the rat formalin test.

This study examined the ability of an adenosine kinase inhibitor (5'-amino-5'-deoxyadenosine; NH2dAD), an adenosine deaminase inhibitor (2'-deoxycoformycin), and combinations of these agents to produce a peripheral modulation of the pain signal in the low concentration formalin model. Drugs were administered in combination with 0.5% formalin, or into the contralateral hindpaw to test for systemic effects, and episodes of flinching behaviors determined.