Harms and Benefits Inventory (HBI): initial validation of a novel assessment of perceived harms and benefits of firearm policies and practices.

Introduction: Understanding gun owners' perceptions of potential firearm policies' harms and benefits is critical to successful policy development and implementation. We used national survey data to develop and validate a novel instrument, the Harms and Benefits Inventory (HBI), for policy-makers and advocates to better consider the citizen perspective.

Method: We conducted a nationally representative survey of American gun owners and non-owners (N=2007) using the Social Science Research Solutions probability panel.

Conversation starters: Understanding the facilitators and barriers to physician-initiated secure firearm storage conversations.

Objective: This paper aims to understand what general practice physicians (GPs) perceive as facilitators and barriers to initiating anticipatory guidance around firearm safety.

Methods: We employ qualitative interviewing to have in-depth conversations with 18 GPs. Participants were randomly selected from a national panel of physicians and screened for specialty (general practice or internist), practice setting (not hospital-based), and time spent on direct patient care (80% +).

Missouri Citizen Perceptions: Giving Second Amendment Preservation Legislation a Second Look.

In June 2021, Missouri passed the "Second Amendment Preservation Act" (SAPA). Though SAPA passed easily and had gubernatorial support, many Missouri law enforcement agencies, including the Missouri Sheriff's Association, oppose it. Missing from this policy conversation, and deserving of analysis, is the voice of Missouri citizens.

Impact of Long COVID on health and quality of life.

: The aim of this study was to measure the impact of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) on quality of life, mental health, ability to work and return to baseline health in an Irish cohort. : We invited individuals with symptoms of COVID-19 lasting more than 14 days to participate in an anonymous online questionnaire. Basic demographic data and self-reported symptoms were recorded.

Factors that modify the risk of intraoperative seizures triggered by electrical stimulation during supratentorial functional mapping.

Objective: Intraoperative mapping via electrical stimulation is the gold standard technique for surgeries close to the eloquent cortex. However, it can trigger seizures which immediately impact patient's safety. We studied whether administration of antiepileptic drugs (AED) prior to and/or at the beginning of the surgery decreases the probability of triggering seizures, while adjusting for other risk factors.

Construction and validation of the chronic acquired polyneuropathy patient-reported index (CAP-PRI): A disease-specific, health-related quality-of-life instrument.

Introduction: Generic health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) patient-reported outcome measures have been used in patients with chronic immune-mediated polyneuropathies. We have created a disease-specific HRQOL instrument.

Methods: The chronic acquired polyneuropathy patient-reported index (CAP-PRI) was developed and validated in multiple steps.

Autonomic Neuropathy.

Autonomic nerve fibers are affected in most generalized peripheral neuropathies. Although this involvement is often mild or subclinical, there are a group of peripheral neuropathies in which the small or unmyelinated fibers are selectively or prominently targeted. These include the autonomic neuropathies associated with diabetes and amyloid, immune-mediated autonomic neuropathies including those associated with a paraneoplastic syndrome, inherited autonomic neuropathies, autonomic neuropathies associated with infectious diseases, and toxic autonomic neuropathies.