Racial and Ethnic Representation in Nephrolithiasis Guidelines: Are They Generalizable?

Objective: To assess whether clinical trials guiding kidney stone care adequately describe the race, ethnicity, and other key demographic variables of their study populations. Guidelines such as those from the American Urological Association represent the highest level of evidence informing clinical practice. We aim to investigate if studies on which they are based include sufficiently diverse patient populations for generalizable results.

Attributing Racial Differences in Care to Health Plan Performance or Selection.

Importance: There is increased interest in public reporting of, and linking financial incentives to, the performance of organizations on health equity metrics, but variation across organizations could reflect differences in performance or selection bias.

Objective: To assess whether differences across health plans in sex- and age-adjusted racial disparities are associated with performance or selection bias.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This cross-sectional study leveraged a natural experiment, wherein a southern US state randomly assigned much of its Medicaid population to 1 of 5 plans after shifting to managed care in 2012.

Incidence of serious complications following screening colonoscopy in adults aged 76 to 85 years old.

Background: Screening colonoscopy harms data are limited for adults ages 76-85 years.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of screening colonoscopies vs. fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) and general population matched comparators aged 76-85 within 3 integrated healthcare systems (2010-2019).

The Influence of Temperature on the Antioxidants of Fruit Juice and Drinks.

is a cultivated species originating from crossbreeding the wild species , also known as the black chokeberry, and European mountain ash . The aronia fruit is dark purple, which can be attributed to the high content of anthocyanins, other flavonoids, and polyphenols. Aronia's reputation as a superberry entices small farms to use it as a prospective specialty crop.