Factors associated with federally qualified health center financial performance.

Objectives: To understand factors associated with federally qualified health center (FQHC) financial performance.

Study Design: We used multivariate linear regression to identify correlates of health center financial performance. We examined six measures of health center financial performance across four domains: margin (operating margin), liquidity (days cash on hand [DCOH], current ratio), solvency (debt-to-equity ratio), and others (net patient accounts receivable days, personnel-related expenses).

'I can't go, I can't afford it': Financial concern amongst health students undertaking rural and remote placements during COVID-19.

Introduction: As the coronavirus pandemic unfolded during 2020, widespread financial uncertainty emerged amongst university students across the globe. What is not yet clear is how Australian health students were financially impacted during the initial stages of the pandemic and whether this influenced their ability to undertake planned rural or remote placements.

Objective: To examine (a) financial concern amongst health students during COVID-19, (b) the financial implications of changes to planned rural or remote placements and (c) the impact of these factors on students' ability to undertake placements during the pandemic.

Quercetin induces pannexin 1 expression via an alternative transcript with a translationally active 5' leader in rhabdomyosarcoma.

Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a deadly cancer of skeletal muscle origin. Pannexin 1 (PANX1) is down-regulated in RMS and increasing its levels drastically inhibits RMS progression. PANX1 upregulation thus represents a prospective new treatment strategy for this malignancy.

Detection of African swine fever virus in neonatal piglets with congenital tremors.

African swine fever virus (ASF) has circulated in Vietnam since 2018, causing significant losses to the pig industry. Quick, accurate diagnosis of African swine fever virus (ASFV) infection is crucial for controlling the disease. The detection of the virus in piglets with congenital tremors is described in this paper.

Tolvaptan Add-on Therapy to Overcome Loop Diuretic Resistance in Acute Heart Failure With Renal Dysfunction (DR-AHF): Design and Rationale.

Background: Diuretic Resistance in Acute Heart Failure (DR-AHF) was designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the early tolvaptan (a vasopressin-2 receptor antagonist) add-on therapy in patients with AHF with renal dysfunction and to provide clinical evidence of loop diuretic resistance.

Methods And Results: This single-centered, open-labeled, randomized, and controlled trial enrolled 128 patients hospitalized with AHF, as participants. These patients with a wet-warm phenotype, whose estimated glomerular filtration rates are of ≥15 ml/min/1.

Intersection of complexity and high utilization among health center patients aged 18 to 64 years.

Objectives: Existing literature indicates that multimorbidity, mental health (MH) conditions, substance use disorders (SUDs), and social determinants of health are hallmarks of high-need, high-cost patients. Health Resources and Services Administration-funded health centers (HCs) provide care to nearly 30 million patients, but data on their patients' complexity and utilization patterns are limited. We identified subgroups of HC patients based on latent concepts of complexity and utilization.

In-Depth Proteomic Analysis of the Secondary Dormancy Induction by Hypoxia or High Temperature in Barley Grains.

In barley, incubation of primary dormant (D1) grains on water under conditions that do not allow germination, i.e. 30°C in air and 15°C or 30°C in 5% O2, induces a secondary dormancy (D2) expressed as a loss of the ability to germinate at 15°C in air.

Clinical practice guidelines and consensus statements for antenatal oral healthcare: An assessment of their methodological quality and content of recommendations.

Objectives: To review the content of recommendations within antenatal oral healthcare guidance documents and appraise the quality of their methodology to inform areas of development, clinical practice, and research focus.

Method: A systematic search of five electronic databases, Google search engine, and databases from relevant professional and guideline development groups published in English, developed countries, and between 2010 and 2020 was undertaken to identify guidance documents related to antenatal oral healthcare. Quality of documents was appraised using the Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation II tool, and a 3-step quality cut-off value was used.

Kink-Oriented People and Exogenous Oppressions: Understanding Mental Health and Related Service Use in a Rural Context.

Rural, kink-oriented people experience much exogenous oppression and yet related research is scarce. This study examined the risk and protective factors of kink-oriented rural Tasmanian Australians with preexisting mental health conditions and help-seeking barriers and facilitators. Participants completed either an online survey (n = 42), an interview (n = 10), or both.

Impact of COVID-19 on rural and remote student placements in Australia: A national study.

Objective: To investigate students' perceptions of the impact of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 on rural and remote placements facilitated by 16 University Departments of Rural Health in Australia in 2020.

Design: A mixed-method design comprising an online survey and semi-structured interviews.

Setting: Australia.

Remdesivir for the treatment of patients in hospital with COVID-19 in Canada: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: The role of remdesivir in the treatment of patients in hospital with COVID-19 remains ill defined in a global context. The World Health Organization Solidarity randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluated remdesivir in patients across many countries, with Canada enrolling patients using an expanded data collection format in the Canadian Treatments for COVID-19 (CATCO) trial. We report on the Canadian findings, with additional demographics, characteristics and clinical outcomes, to explore the potential for differential effects across different health care systems.

Groundwater arsenic content related to the sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Red River delta, Vietnam.

Arsenic (As) is highly toxic and over 100 million people living on the floodplains of Asia are exposed to excessive groundwater As. A very large spatial variability over small distances has been observed in the groundwater As concentrations. Advances in the prediction of the As distribution in aquifers would support drinking water management.

Network analysis of psychological factors related to academic pressure faced by medical students in the central and highland regions of Vietnam.

Medical students experience extensive pressure during their undergraduate courses. Given the complex associations between psychological factors in association with academic pressure. We investigated the study with objectives: To examine psychological factors related to academic pressure by analysing interactions between 'study motivation', 'study environment', 'study conditions', 'teacher quality', 'training programme', 'management system', 'evaluation', and 'extracurricular activities' using a network analysis approach.

Survival after traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Vietnam: a multicenter prospective cohort study.

Background: Pre-hospital services are not well developed in Vietnam, especially the lack of a trauma system of care. Thus, the prognosis of traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) might differ from that of other countries. Although the outcome in cardiac arrest following trauma is dismal, pre-hospital resuscitation efforts are not futile and seem worthwhile.

Closing the Gap in Aboriginal health disparities: is there a place for Elders in the neoliberal agenda?

Objective In light of concerns surrounding neoliberal government approaches to addressing Aboriginal disadvantage, this project examined how Elders consider the Closing the Gap programs for improving community health outcomes. Methods A participatory action research project was undertaken in collaboration with eight Elders from a remote Aboriginal community in Australia's island state of Tasmania. The findings emerged from thematic analysis of individual interviews and yarning circles.

Non-back-reflecting polygon scanner with applications in surface cleaning.

Polygon mirror scanners are attracting considerable interest owing to their rapid speed and large scanning area. Here, we focused on the back-reflection effect of the polygon scanner. A new polygon scanner system was designed based on a geometric analysis.

Genetic structure and population connection of two Bouyei populations in northern Vietnam based on short tandem repeat analysis.

Objectives: Genetic characteristics were investigated based on short tandem repeat (STR) data to assess the relationship between two Vietnamese Bouyei populations in Vietnam.

Methods: We collected hair and buccal swab samples from two separate Bouyei populations in the mountainous region of Northern Vietnam, which are the Bo Y in Ha Giang Province and the Tu Di in Lao Cai Province. The study included data of 23 autosomal and 27 Y-chromosome STRs loci of 96 unrelated participants from a total Vietnamese Bouyei population of under 3300 individuals.

'It all comes back to community!': A qualitative study of Aboriginal Elders promoting cultural well-being.

Objective: To examine Australian Aboriginal Elders' (Elders) views on their contributions to and their potential to contribute to the well-being of their community.

Design: Participatory action research methodology was employed. Data collection methods included yarning interviews and group circle discussions.

Mental health and related service use by sex workers in rural and remote Australia: 'there's a lot of stigma in society'.

Sex workers experience risk and protective factors that affect their psychological well-being, yet little is known about sex workers' mental health and their experiences with related services in rural and remote Tasmania, Australia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six current or former sex workers with pre-existing mental health problems, and thematic analysis was used to identify their experiences with mental health and related care. Generally, sex work does not contribute to participants' mental health concerns; rather, social exclusion and systemic issues cause psychological harm.

The first newborn patient with SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 identified in Viet Nam: treatment and care practices.

SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.

Near real-time determination of B.1.1.7 in proportion to total SARS-CoV-2 viral load in wastewater using an allele-specific primer extension PCR strategy.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has claimed millions of lives to date. Antigenic drift has resulted in viral variants with putatively greater transmissibility, virulence, or both. Early and near real-time detection of these variants of concern (VOC) and the ability to accurately follow their incidence and prevalence in communities is wanting.

Factors contributing to the recruitment and retention of rural pharmacist workforce: a systematic review.

Background: Recruiting and retaining medical, nursing, and allied health professionals in rural and remote areas is a worldwide challenge, compromising continuity of care and population health outcomes in these locations. Specifically, pharmacists play an essential and accessible frontline healthcare role, and are often the first point of contact for health concerns. Despite several incentives, there remains a maldistribution and undersupply of pharmacists in rural and remote areas across many parts of the world.

Bivalent copper oligopyrocatecholate as a novel heterogeneous catalyst for the oxidative degradation of mercaptan in caustic solution: Synthesis, characterization, and kinetic study.

A novel catalyst based on bivalent copper oligopyrocatecholate was first successfully synthesized and dispersed in a polymer matrix for oxidative degradation of mercaptan in aqueous caustic solution. X-ray diffraction analysis has demonstrated that the synthesized catalyst was a crystalline phase with a minimum amorphous component. Mechanism analysis and kinetic experiments were conducted to investigate the kinetic mechanism of the reaction of isopropyl mercaptan oxidation catalyzed by copper oligopyrocatecholate dispersed in a polymer matrix.

Disinfection and conditions associated with thermo-assisted drying and decontamination inconsistently produce negative PRRSV rRT-PCR results on metal surfaces.

Because contaminated livestock trailers are a significant risk for transmitting viruses between herds, various methods of washing, disinfecting, and thermo-assisted drying and decontamination (TADD) have been evaluated for their effectiveness in inactivating porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) on contaminated surfaces. Information on when to expect negative qRT-PCR results after adequate trailer sanitation is lacking. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether there are conditions associated with washing-disinfectant-TADD procedures that will consistently produce a negative qRT-PCR result for the purpose of monitoring compliance with trailer sanitation and decontamination protocols for PRRSV on metal surfaces.