Using a Culture Committee to Improve and Maintain a Positive Workplace Environment During a Pandemic.

Workplace culture is often overlooked in interventions to improve the delivery of health care efficiency. Burnout and employee morale have been longstanding issues in health care and can negatively affect both provider and patient health. To address employee wellness and promote department unity, a culture committee was established within a radiation oncology department.

Incidence of Brain Metastases in Women Treated With Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: Implications for Screening.

Purpose: Patients with metastatic breast cancer may develop brain metastases. Our study identified high-risk patients to refine selection criteria for BM screening approaches.

Patients: We reviewed breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) at a single university center between 2005 and 2019.

The impacts of donor transitions on health systems in middle-income countries: a scoping review.

As countries graduate from low-income to middle-income status, many face losses in development assistance for health and must 'transition' to greater domestic funding of their health response. If improperly managed, donor transitions in middle-income countries (MICs) could present significant challenges to global health progress. No prior knowledge synthesis has comprehensively surveyed how donor transitions can affect health systems in MICs.

The Opioid Epidemic Blunted the Mortality Benefit of Medicaid Expansion.

Although the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion reduced uninsurance, less is known about its impact on mortality, especially in the context of the opioid epidemic. We conducted a difference-in-differences study comparing trends in mortality between expansion and nonexpansion states from 2011 to 2016 using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mortality data. We analyzed all-cause deaths, health care amenable deaths, drug overdose deaths, and deaths from causes other than drug overdose among adults aged 20 to 64 years.