Drug treatment and support service utilization amidst the COVID-19 pandemic among people who inject drugs in Baltimore, Maryland: An interrupted time-series analysis, 2015-2022.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic prompted many structural and social changes including adaptations to drug treatment policies and provision (e.g., take-home methadone flexibilities and telehealth services), but their collective impact on drug treatment use among people who inject drugs in the US remains unclear.

Discharge Disposition in Veterans with Heart Failure: Impact of Dementia and Severe Mental Illness.

Objectives: Post-acute heart failure (HF) care presents significant management challenges, particularly among veterans with cognitive and behavioral impairments due to Alzheimer disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) or severe mental illness (SMI). We hypothesized that comorbid AD/ADRD and SMI would reduce the likelihood of discharge home following HF hospitalization. In addition, we explored how AD/ADRD and SMI influence discharge to Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Living Centers (CLCs) compared with Medicare Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs).

Optimizing lower extremity CT angiography: A prospective study of individualized vs. fixed post-trigger delays in bolus tracking.

Purpose: To compare the contrast media opacification and diagnostic quality in lower-extremity runoff CT angiography (CTA) between bolus-tracking using conventional fixed trigger delay and patient-specific individualized post-trigger delay.

Methods: In this prospective study, lower-extremity runoff CTA was performed in two cohorts, using either fixed or individualized trigger delay. Both cohorts had identical CT protocols, contrast media applications, and image reconstructions.

Social and Financial Costs of Neonatal Intestinal Failure.

Importance: Neonatal short bowel syndrome with intestinal failure is rare, and observational studies are limited to small cohorts. Health disparities exist in long-term management with little known about the initial hospitalization.

Objective: To identify children with neonatal short bowel syndrome with intestinal failure and to determine whether race, ethnicity, and neighborhood opportunity are associated with length of stay during their initial hospitalizations.