A Descriptive Analysis of the Execution of the Expert Field Medical Badge Competition with Mitigation Measures during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objective: Introduction: In September 2020, the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, CO, executed an Expert Field Medical Badge (EFMB) event, unique in its implementation of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) mitigation measures. We conducted a descriptive analysis of our experience to inform future EFMB events.

Methods: We planned and resourced the EFMB competition in accordance with the Army Medical Department Center and School Pamphlet 350-10.

Task Force Contain: A Descriptive Analysis of Brigade Combat Team COVID-19 Operations.

Background: In March 2020, a Fort Carson brigade combat team established Task Force (TF) Contain in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We offer a descriptive analysis of the TF Contain execution.

Methods: This study comprises a descriptive analysis of the design and execution of COVID-19 response by an infantry brigade combat team.

Validity and Intrarater Reliability of 2-Dimensional Motion Analysis Using a Handheld Tablet Compared to Traditional 3-Dimensional Motion Analysis.

Content: Lower extremity landing mechanics have been implicated as a contributing factor in knee pain and injury, yet cost effective and clinically accessible methods for evaluating movement mechanics are limited. The identification of valid, reliable, and readily accessible technology to assess lower extremity alignment could be an important tool for clinicians, coaches, and strength and conditioning specialists.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of using a hand-held tablet and movement analysis application (app) for assessing lower extremity alignment during a drop vertical jump task.

Health care workers and ICU pain perceptions.

Objective: Our study examined the effect of health care workers' personal characteristics on how they perceive and intend to treat patients' pain in the intensive care unit. Though pain perceptions have been well established from the patient's perspective, less is known about how variations in health care workers may affect their perceptions of pain.

Design: This study consisted of a 28-item questionnaire distributed to 122 medical staff personnel over a 12-month period.

Practice question.

Everyone comes into contact with health and social care services at some point in their lives, usually when they are at their most vulnerable. Anyone who has had experience of health and social care services will have vivid memories of the care that they received, whether good or bad. It is often the small things that result in patients perceiving that care is poor or good.

Ask the experts.

Patient information needs to be shared within and between NHS organisations. Information technology (IT) systems can achieve this when developed in an integrated way.