Test results pending at discharge among emergency department patients experiencing homelessness.

Background: Persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) are vulnerable emergency department (ED) patients due to high rates of multi-comorbidity and mortality, as well as a lack of follow up care. Communication of test results pending at discharge (TPAD) is an important area of post-ED follow up care. We examined phone access, successful contact, and change in treatment among PEH and non-PEH with TPAD from the ED.

The Role of Language in Hospital Admissions: The COVID-19 Experience in a Safety-Net Hospital Emergency Department.

Background: Emergency departments (EDs) are often patients' first point of contact with the health care system. Race, ethnicity, and language all influence factors leading up to ED visits and patient experiences within the ED. There is limited evidence showing how race, ethnicity, and language interact to shape ED experiences, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic when EDs were extremely strained.

Expanding the genotypic and phenotypic spectra with a novel variant in the ciliopathy gene, , associated with selective cone degeneration.

Background: (Cilia and Flagella Associated Protein 410) encodes a protein that has an important role in the development and function of cilia. In ophthalmology, pathogenic variants in have been described in association with cone rod dystrophy, retinitis pigmentosa, with or without macular staphyloma, or with systemic abnormalities such as skeletal dysplasia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Herein, we report a consanguineous family with a novel homozygous c.

A hypomorphic variant of choroideremia is associated with a novel intronic mutation that leads to exon skipping.

Introduction: Molecular confirmation of pathogenic sequence variants in the CHM gene is required prior to enrolment in retinal gene therapy clinical trials for choroideremia. Individuals with mild choroideremia have been reported. The molecular basis of genotype-phenotype associations is of clinical relevance since it may impact on selection for retinal gene therapy.

MERTK missense variants in three patients with retinitis pigmentosa.

Background: is a transmembrane protein essential in regulating photoreceptor outer segment phagocytosis. Biallelic mutations in cause retinal degeneration. Here we present the retinal phenotype of three patients with missense variants in .

Association of a Novel Intronic Variant in RPGR With Hypomorphic Phenotype of X-Linked Retinitis Pigmentosa.

Importance: Pathogenic variants in retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator (RPGR) gene typically lead to a severe form of X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, which is associated with early severe vision loss.

Objective: To investigate an X-linked retinal degeneration family with atypical preservation of visual acuity in the presence of a novel deep intronic splice site RPGR c.779-5T>G variant.

Emergency department management of traumatic brain injuries: A resource tiered review.

Introduction: Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability globally with an estimated African incidence of approximately 8 million cases annually. A person suffering from a TBI is often aged 20-30, contributing to sustained disability and large negative economic impacts of TBI. Effective emergency care has the potential to decrease morbidity from this multisystem trauma.

Forward for women's health: the state of women's health in Wisconsin.

Because of the magnitude of women's health issues within the larger context of public health and healthcare systems, this paper was written to help define the current status of women's health in Wisconsin. Utilizing critical women's health areas identified by the Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation and the Wisconsin Division of Public Health, 16 specific measures of women's health were chosen for this analysis. The most recent data available for each measure were collected with Wisconsin data being compared to national averages as well as to Healthy People 2010: Objectives for Improving Health targets.