Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on Stage of Breast Cancer at Presentation and Time to Treatment at an Urban Safety-Net Hospital.

Background: COVID-19 disrupted health systems across the country. Pre-pandemic, patients accessing our urban safety-net hospital presented with three-fold higher rates of late-stage breast cancer than other Commission-on-Cancer sites. We sought to determine the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on stage of breast cancer presentation and time to first treatment at our urban safety-net hospital.

United States Medical Licensing Examination step 2 scores do not predict American Board of Neurological Surgery scores: A single-institution experience.

Objectives: The neurosurgery residency match is becoming increasingly competitive, with numerous factors being considered as part of the application. We aim to determine whether USMLE Step 2 scores were a significant predictor of neurosurgery board performance.

Patients And Methods: Residents who entered a neurological surgery residency program at a single academic institution during 2000-2017 provided scores for all ABNS attempts, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 scores.

NICU Nurses and Families Partnering to Provide Neuroprotective, Family-Centered, Developmental Care.

The aim of this project was to determine how implementing neuroprotective, family-centered, developmental care interventions would impact the satisfaction of nurses and families compared with traditional care in a NICU. Neuroprotective, family-centered, developmental care is grounded in the principle that optimal health outcomes are accomplished when patients' family members play an active role in contributing emotional, social, and developmental support for their babies. To accomplish this, nurses needed an understanding of the developmental problems associated with high-risk premature infants, fundamentals of neurosensory growth, and how the intrauterine environment protects the infant from the fluctuation of an unstable extrauterine environment.

Research on HIV cure: Mapping the ethics landscape.

In an essay, Karine Dubé and coauthors discuss the ethics of preclinical and clinical studies relevant to achieving an HIV cure.