Catching Those Who Fall Through the Cracks: Integrating a Follow-Up Process for Emergency Department Patients with Incidental Radiologic Findings.

Study Objective: Abnormal findings unrelated to the indication for testing are identified on emergency department (ED) imaging studies. We report the design and implementation of an electronic health record-based interdisciplinary referral system and our experience from the first 13 months of ensuring that patients with incidental radiology findings were connected with the appropriate outpatient surveillance.

Methods: Our informatics team standardized the contemporaneous reporting of critical radiology alerts using our ED trackboard and created a companion follow-up request form for the treating ED clinicians to complete.

Novel Biobased Self-Healing Ionomers Derived from Itaconic Acid Derivates.

This article presents novel biobased ionomers featuring self-healing abilities. These smart materials are synthesized from itaconic acid derivates. Large quantities of itaconic acid can be produced from diverse biomass like corn, rice, and others.

Thermally Switchable Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer via Reversible Diels-Alder Reaction of π-Conjugated Oligo-(Phenylene Ethynylene)s.

The combination of reversible, dynamic covalent bonds and π-conjugated oligo-(phenylene ethynylene)s is utilized for exchange reactions between two acceptors and one donor containing copolymer in the solid state upon thermal treatment. The specific molecular design of the polymers allows upon thermally triggering the reshuffling of the π-conjugated donor and acceptor moieties. Depending on the nature of the acceptor, an increased and a decreased fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), respectively, can be observed for the mixing of the copolymers or the demixing of a donor-acceptor copolymer.