Publications by authors named "J Blomquist"

Importance: Patients with urgency urinary incontinence are often recommended to avoid bladder irritants, but there is a lack of evidence for this.

Objective: The aim of the study was to compare consumption of purported bladder irritants between women with and without urgency urinary incontinence.

Study Design: We performed a case-control study of nonpregnant females aged ≥20 years using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2020.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study highlights that the Latina population faces significant barriers to seeking care for urinary incontinence (UI), with higher complication rates and disparities compared to Black and White populations.
  • The research involved a cross-sectional survey using the Barriers to Incontinence Care Seeking Questionnaire (BICS-Q) among 298 patients to identify differences in care-seeking barriers across ethnic groups.
  • Findings indicate that Latina participants had the highest total BICS-Q scores, showcasing more difficulties in seeking UI treatment than Black and White participants, further emphasizing that lower knowledge about UI correlates with higher barriers to care.
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Large language models (LLMs) can support nursing education but pose questions of validity, reliability, and ethical use. This article proposes using the five rights of nursing delegation framework by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing to teach nursing students about the appropriate use of LLMs in health care and nursing education. Nursing faculty can teach students how to assess the validity and reliability of the information provided by LLMs, document its use, and reference and cite information appropriately.

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Nutrient pollution from agriculture and urban areas plus acid mine drainage (AMD) from legacy coal mines are primary causes of water-quality impairment in the Susquehanna River, which is the predominant source of freshwater and nutrients entering the Chesapeake Bay. Recent increases in the delivery of dissolved orthophosphate (PO) from the river to the bay may be linked to long-term increases in pH, decreased acidity of precipitation, and decreased acidity, iron, and aluminum loading from widespread AMD. Since the 1950s, baseline pH increased from ~6.

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Objective: To compare treatment effects between ultrasound guided lavage with corticosteroid injection and sham lavage with and without corticosteroid injection in patients with calcific tendinopathy of the shoulder.

Design: Pragmatic, three arm, parallel group, double blinded, sham controlled, randomised, superiority trial with repeated measurements over 24 months.

Setting: Six hospitals in Norway and Sweden.

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