Alternative healthcare delivery arrangements in Nepal: a systematic review of comparative effectiveness, safety and cost-effectiveness studies.

Background: The way that healthcare services are organised and delivered (termed 'healthcare delivery arrangements') is a key aspect of a health system. Changing the way health care is delivered, for example, task shifting that delivers the same care at lower cost, may be one way of improving healthcare system sustainability. We synthesised the existing randomised trial evidence to compare the effects of alternative healthcare delivery arrangements versus usual care in Nepal.

Perceptual choice and motor signals in mouse somatosensory cortex.

Somatosensory cortex activity relates both to sensation and movement, reflecting their intimate relationship, but the extent and nature of sensory-motor interactions in the somatosensory cortex remain unclear. Here, we investigated perception-related sensory and motor signals in the whisker areas of mouse primary (wS1) and secondary (wS2) somatosensory cortices. We recorded neuronal activity while mice performed a whisker detection task using two alternative lickports, one each to indicate the presence or absence of a whisker deflection on a given trial.

Registered Reports in Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine: To Infinity and Beyond.

In April 2023, Psychosomatic Medicine, now renamed Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine, introduced registered reports as a new article format. Registered reports are a type of scientific article in which the research methods and proposed analyses are preregistered and peer-reviewed before the data are collected or analyzed. We were excited to be joining a growing number of journals internationally to offer this format and to be aligning with the Behavioral Medicine Research Council's statement on open science, recognizing the value of publishing registered reports in our field.