Learning from an equitable, data-informed response to COVID-19: Translating knowledge into future action and preparation.

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic revealed numerous barriers to effectively managing public health crises, including difficulties in using publicly available, community-level data to create learning systems in support of local public health decision responses. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of health care partners began meeting to learn from their collective experiences. We identified key tools and processes for using data and learning system structures to drive equitable public health decision making throughout different phases of the pandemic.

Method to share learning in real time at scientific meetings: lessons from the IHI-BMJ International Conference on Quality and Safety.

Background: Capturing and disseminating key learnings on emerging themes for conference participants is challenging, yet also presents a significant opportunity to distill, share and discuss learning in real time with conference organisers and attendees. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and () collaborate annually to convene a Health Quality and Safety conference attracting 1000 to 3000 attendees each year.

Aim: To test a learning system that harvested and synthesised the key lessons shared by conference participants at the 2022 IHI-BMJ Gothenburg Forum, and to disseminate this content.

Diabetes-induced changes in the alternative splicing of the slo gene in corporal tissue.

Objectives: Erectile dysfunction is a common diabetic complication. Preclinical studies have documented that the Slo gene (encoding the BK or Maxi-K channel alpha-subunit) plays a critical role in erectile function. Therefore, we determined whether diabetes induces changes in the splicing of the Slo gene relevant to erectile function.

Use of 7.5F flexible pediatric cystoscope in the staging and management of urethral stricture disease.

Background And Purpose: In the evaluation and treatment of patients with urethral strictures, assessment of the stricture is of paramount importance. To date, urologists have relied on retrograde or antegrade urethrography or both to define stricture length and associated characteristics. Antegrade urethrography typically requires suprapubic access to the bladder, adding to the morbidity of stricture treatment.

Pad test by mail for home evaluation of urinary incontinence.

Aims: To present a simple, cost-effective, and convenient method of home pad test using the mail system and evaluating change in pad weight over time.

Materials And Methods: A series of nine kinds of commonly available commercial brands of urinary incontinence pads ranging from thin liners less than 10 g in dry weight to large diapers weighing over 100 g each were assembled. Two or three of each variety were individually weighed on an OHAUS LS2000 Portable Standard scale accurate to +/- 1 g.

Critical surgical techniques for radical perineal prostatectomy.

Purpose: Radical perineal prostatectomy was historically the surgical treatment of choice for localized adenocarcinoma of the prostate until the 1980s when radical retropubic prostatectomy began to gain popularity. Nevertheless, the perineal approach possesses advantages that prompt resurgence in the interest of this classic operation. We review the relevant anatomy and our modified technique of performing a successful radical perineal prostatectomy.