Factors Related to the Compliance of Arab Parents in Israel to the Vaccination of Children and Adolescents against COVID-19.

Unlabelled: The Arab minority consists of 20% of the Israeli population. Most of the Arab minority live in rural villages, mostly in closed communities, with specific psycho-social and sociodemographic characteristics. Previous studies showed different attitudes to COVID-19 vaccination among Arab adults.

Factors Associated with Decisions of Arab Minority Parents in Israel to Vaccinate Their Children against COVID-19.

Unlabelled: The Arab ethnic community in Israel is characterized by low social economic status and is at risk due to the typically crowded households. Understanding parents' level of awareness is important to avoid new outbreaks.

Objectives: This study seeks to identify predicting factors associated with perceived susceptibility to COVID-19, and barriers to COVID-19 vaccination.

Does an Overcrowded Emergency Department Reduce Moral Hazard? Lessons from Emergency Department Visits to Three Hospitals in an Israeli Metropolitan Area.

Metropolitan Haifa, Israel, has three hospitals: Rambam Health Care Campus, Bnai Zion Medical Center, and Carmel Medical Center. In 2007-2014, the length of stay at RHCC's emergency department increased, while the number of visits decreased. We ask whether the increase in LOS is associated with the falling numbers of visits to other EDs, whether an increase in LOS induces more referrals to competing hospitals in the metropolitan area, and whether it pays to be a crowded ED in mitigating moral hazard.

Does It Pay to Treat Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019? Social Perception of Physicians Treating Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019.

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the public has often expressed great appreciation toward medical personnel who were often shown in the media expressing strong emotions about the situation. To examine whether the perception of people on a physician is in fact influenced by whether the physician treats patients with COVID-19 and the emotions they expressed in response to the situation, 454 participants were recruited in May 2020. Participants saw facial expressions of anger, sadness, happiness, and neutrality which supposedly were shown by physicians who were presented as working either in COVID-19 wards or in an internal medicine ward.

Involvement and skepticism towards the JCI Accreditation process among hospital's four sectors employees: suggestions for cultural change.

Background: Implementing the JCI Accreditation process as an organizational culture may face resistance. However, the skepticism and involvement of different hospital sectors (medical, nursing, paramedical, and administrative/logistic) in the process may vary. Conducting organizational change needs tools to decrease resistance.

Did the events following the COVID-19 outbreak influence the incidents of violence against hospital staff?

Background: During the COVID-19 outbreak, (March 1 - June 15, 2020) citizens expressed sympathy and gratitude towards medical staff through the media, while the entire hospital staff faced the same danger of infection as other citizens. This might have made hospital staff develop sympathy, understanding for the patients` and family's needs, and a better communication.

Objectives: To investigate if there is a relation between the mutual change in attitude between citizens and hospital staff during the first COVID-19 outbreak, and the incidence of violence cases.

Drastic Reduction Inpatient Visits to the Emergency Department in a Hospital in Israel During the COVID-19 Outbreak, Compared to the H1N1 2009.

Background: On February 26, 2020, the first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was detected in Israel. The Ministry of Health (MoH) instructed people to take isolation measures and restrict their movement. Similarly, there was a gradual decrease in the number of visits to our emergency department (ED).

Health and health care in Israel: an introduction.

Starting well before Independence in 1948, and over the ensuing six decades, Israel has built a robust, relatively efficient public system of health care, resulting in good health statistics throughout the life course. Because of the initiative of people living under the British Mandate for Palestine (1922-48), the development of many of today's health services predated the state's establishment by several decades. An extensive array of high-quality services and technologies is available to all residents, largely free at point of service, via the promulgation of the 1994 National Health Insurance Law.

Reliability of history of acetaminophen ingestion in intentional drug overdose patients.

The objective of this study was to determine the reliability of denial of acetaminophen ingestion in intentional drug overdose patients. All intentional drug overdose patients admitted to an emergency department who were able to provide a history were included. A detailed history was obtained on names, timing and number of medications ingested, and serum acetaminophen was assayed.

Mushroom poisoning from species of genus Inocybe (fiber head mushroom): a case series with exact species identification.

Background: Many species of the genus Inocybe (family Cortinariaceae, higher Basidiomycetes) are muscarine-containing mycorrhizal mushrooms, ubiquitous around the world. The few published reports on the poisonous Inocybe mushrooms are often limited by the inadequate identification of the species. The clinical course of patients with typical muscarinic manifestations, in whom Inocybe spp.

The Druze: a population genetic refugium of the Near East.

Background: Phylogenetic mitochondrial DNA haplogroups are highly partitioned across global geographic regions. A unique exception is the X haplogroup, which has a widespread global distribution without major regions of distinct localization.

Principal Findings: We have examined mitochondrial DNA sequence variation together with Y-chromosome-based haplogroup structure among the Druze, a religious minority with a unique socio-demographic history residing in the Near East.

Improving the pattern of work towards emergency medicine at the Emergency Department in Rambam Medical Centre.

Background: Rambam Medical Centre is a 950-bed referral hospital, containing 34 beds in the Emergency Department (ED). The arrangement of the ED was based on two separate units: trauma and medical. Patient evaluation lasted many hours, with an abuse of consultants, laboratory and imaging services.