Bringing COVID-19 vaccine to medically underserved populations utilizing a community-guided mobile vaccine program.

Between March 23, 2021, and December 31, 2022, the Mobile Vaccine Program (MVP) vaccinated 5044 individuals from medically-underserved communities in Middle Tennessee identified through and guided by a collaboration of local community agencies. The primary objective of the MVP was to vaccinate individuals for COVID-19 who had barriers to traditional mass vaccine strategies through community-guided strategies and partnerships. Three strategies were developed and implemented with community partners and their affiliated community health workers (CHWs).

Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Have Heterogeneous Treatment Preferences That Are Largely Determined by the Avoidance of Abdominal Pain and Side Effects [P-POWER IBD Study].

Background And Aims: Patient-centric management of inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] is important, with consensus considering patient-reported outcomes alongside clinical and endoscopic assessment by healthcare providers. However, evidence regarding patients' treatment priorities is still limited. This study aimed to elicit benefit-risk trade-offs that patients with IBD are willing to make, to help inform discussions about patient-centric treatment targets.

Pianism: Performance Communication and the Playing Technique.

A pianist's movements are fundamental to music-making by producing the musical sounds and the expressive movements of the trunk and arms which communicate the music's structural and emotional information making it valuable for this review to examine upper-body movement in the performance process in combination with the factors important in skill acquisition. The underpinning playing technique must be efficient with economic muscle use by using body segments according to their design and movement potential with the arm segments mechanically linked to produce coordinated and fluent movement. Two physiologically and pianistically important actions proposed by early music scientists to deliver the keystroke involve dropping the hand from the shoulders toward the keys via a wave action with the joints activated sequentially, and forearm rotation to position the fingers for the keystroke, an action followed by the elbow/upper-arm rotating in the opposite direction.

Coalition for a Healthier Community: Lessons learned and implications for future work.

The Coalition for a Healthier Community (CHC) initiative was implemented to improve the health and well-being of women and girls. Underpinning CHC is a gender-based focus that uses a network of community partners working collaboratively to generate relevant behavior change and improved health outcomes. Ten programs are trying to determine whether gender-focused system approaches are cost-effective ways to address health disparities in women and girls.

In vivo biocompatibility of a plasma-activated, coronary stent coating.

Bare metal and drug-eluting coronary stents suffer an inherent lack of vascular cell and blood compatibility resulting in adverse patient responses. We have developed a plasma-activated coating (PAC) for metallic coronary stents that is durable, withstands crimping and expansion, has low thrombogenicity and can covalently bind proteins, linker-free. This has been shown to enhance endothelial cell interactions in vitro and has the potential to promote biointegration of stents.

Patient safety culture: the nursing unit leader's role.

Discussions about a culture of patient safety abound, yet nurse leaders continue to struggle to achieve such a culture in today's complex and fast-paced healthcare environment. In this article the authors discuss the concept of a patient safety culture, present a fictional scenario describing what happened in a hospital that lacked a culture of patient safety, and explain what should have happened in the above scenario. This discussion is offered within a framework consisting of seven driving factors of patient safety.

The incorporation of strontium and zinc into a calcium-silicon ceramic for bone tissue engineering.

In this study we developed novel scaffolds through the controlled substitution and incorporation of strontium and zinc into a calcium-silicon system to form Sr-Hardystonite (Sr-Ca(2)ZnSi(2)O(7), Sr-HT). The physical and biological properties of Sr-HT were compared to Hardystonite (Ca(2)ZnSi(2)O(7)) [HT]. We showed that Sr-HT scaffolds are porous with interconnected porous network (interconnectivity: 99%) and large pore size (300-500 microm) and an overall porosity of 78%, combined with a relatively high compressive strength (2.

Chest symptoms following coronary stenting in the first 10 weeks of recovery.

Background: Most patients experience the benefits of PTCA and stent quickly, with reduction in symptoms and improvement in functional status, however many patients experience chest symptoms post-procedure.

Objective: To describe the pattern and characteristics of post-stent chest symptoms in cardiac rehabilitation participants.

Methods: A prospective descriptive study assessing the pattern and presence of chest symptoms in coronary artery stent recipients (N=129) four and ten weeks post-procedure.

Perceived versus actual risk for hypertension and diabetes in the African American community.

Hypertension and diabetes mellitus are leading health concerns in the United States. Despite a disproportionate burden of both conditions among African Americans, it is estimated that 44% of diabetes cases and one quarter of hypertension cases within this population are undiagnosed. Lack of awareness of the risk of these conditions may hinder preventive efforts and the adoption of positive lifestyle changes.

Benefits of standardized diabetes and hypertension screening forms at community screening events.

The objectives of this project were to (a) assess hypertension and diabetes screening data collection practices and guidelines and (b) develop and test standardized screening forms for use at minority community- and faith-based screening events. Project Phase I involved resource assessment and the development of a set of screening forms and guidelines containing a core data set for both hypertension and diabetes. These were then tested during Phase II at predetermined community based screening events throughout the United States.

Proliferation and bone-related gene expression of osteoblasts grown on hydroxyapatite ceramics sintered at different temperature.

Human osteoblast-like cells SaOS-2 (ATCC HTB85) were seeded onto three kinds of hydroxyapatite (HA) ceramics sintered at different temperature (1200 degrees C, 1000 degrees C and 800 degrees C). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was conducted to detect the surface microstructure. Cells were cultured on these substrates for 6 and 12 days and cell proliferation rate and mRNA expression for osteocalcin, osteonectin, type I collagen and alkaline phosphatase and protein production for osteocalcin, bone sialoprotein and osteonectin were detected with quantitative in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry techniques.

Phenotypic expression of bone-related genes in osteoblasts grown on calcium phosphate ceramics with different phase compositions.

Calcium phosphate ceramics with different hydroxyapatite (HA) and tricalcium phosphate (TCP) ratios have different chemical properties. Does the difference in phase composition affect osteoblast behavior? In this study, osteoblasts were cultured on 4 kinds of calcium phosphate ceramics, i.e.