Using Collective Impact to Examine Direct Service Worker Training and Credentialing in North Carolina: Recommendations for Change.

Older adults and people living with disabilities receive home- and community-based services (HCBS) from approximately 113,000 often under-resourced and inadequately supported direct service workers (e.g., personal care aides, direct support professionals, nurse aides) in North Carolina.

A Scoping Review of Pharmacological Management of Postacute Sequelae of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection in 2021.

Background: Postacute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection (PASC), or long-COVID, are signs and symptoms that persist after the acute phase of Coronavirus disease 2019 infection has passed. PASC is newly recognized, and research is ongoing to answer questions about pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, and optimal treatment.

Areas Of Uncertainty: Use of pharmacologic treatment for symptoms of PASC is currently evolving.

Appointment attendance and patient perception of drive-up INR testing in a rural anticoagulation clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Introduction: The Anticoagulation Forum and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend drive-up international normalized ratio (INR) testing to combat INR non-adherence and increase safety during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Patient perceptions and impact on attendance have not been studied.

Objective: To assess appointment volume and patient perception after initiation of drive-up INR testing in a rural pharmacist-managed anticoagulation clinic.

On the cost of iterative computations.

With exascale-level computation on the horizon, the art of predicting the cost of computations has acquired a renewed focus. This task is especially challenging in the case of iterative methods, for which convergence behaviour often cannot be determined with certainty (unless we are satisfied with potentially outrageous overestimates) and which typically suffer from performance bottlenecks at scale due to synchronization cost. Moreover, the amplification of rounding errors can substantially affect the practical performance, in particular for methods with short recurrences.

Recent Evidence Examining Efficacy and Safety of Aspirin for Primary Cardiovascular Disease Prevention.

Background: Data on aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are conflicting and changing as new trials are published on the subject.

Objective: To review recent data evaluating the efficacy and safety of aspirin for primary prevention of CVD.

Data Sources: Articles evaluating aspirin for primary prevention of CVD were gathered using a MEDLINE search with the keywords aspirin review, aspirin peripheral artery disease, aspirin stroke, aspirin coronary artery disease, aspirin diabetes, aspirin primary prophylaxis, and aspirin elderly.