Economic Outcomes of Disease Intervention Specialist-Delivered Interventions for Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Systematic Review.

Background: Although numerous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of interventions delivered by disease intervention specialists (DIS), relatively few studies have assessed their economic outcomes. We performed a systematic literature review of the cost, cost-effectiveness, and cost-benefit of DIS-delivered interventions for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States.

Methods: Building on a recent systematic review of the effectiveness of DIS-delivered interventions, we reviewed economic outcomes associated with these interventions for STIs.

: An Package for Building a Reproducible Workflow for the Field of Integrated Species Distribution Models.

There has been an exponential increase in the quantity and type of biodiversity data in recent years, including presence-absence, counts, and presence-only citizen science data. Species Distribution Models (SDMs) have typically been used in ecology to estimate current and future ranges of species and are a common tool used when making conservation prioritization decisions. However, the integration of these data in a model-based framework is needed to address many of the current large-scale threats to biodiversity.

Personality in psychosis decades after onset: Tests of models of the relations between psychopathology and personality.

Models have been put forth to describe relations between psychopathology and personality. However, the relation in individuals with psychotic disorders is unclear. As a test of models of psychopathology-personality in psychosis, the current study included 239 individuals, each with one of four psychotic disorders-schizophrenia (SZ), bipolar disorder with psychotic features (BPp), major depressive disorder with psychotic features (MDDp), and substance-induced psychosis (SIP)-and compared their personality to a never-psychotic sample (NP; = 257).

Proceedings of the 29th Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society.

The 2024 Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS) was from May 1-4th in Houston, Texas, USA, under the theme "Liver Disease and Transplantation: Breaking Barriers and Exploring New Frontiers". In addition to a robust scientific program, the congress also hosted a hands-on cadaveric robotic liver surgery course, a machine perfusion workshop, and a transesophageal echocardiography course. In this report, the ILTS Vanguard and Basic Sciences Committees present a summary of the congress proceedings.