Emotional Exhaustion Among US Health Care Workers Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019-2021.

Importance: Extraordinary strain from COVID-19 has negatively impacted health care worker (HCW) well-being.

Objective: To determine whether HCW emotional exhaustion has increased during the pandemic, for which roles, and at what point.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This survey study was conducted in 3 waves, with an electronic survey administered in September 2019, September 2020, and September 2021 through January 2022.

The highest utilizers of care: individualized care plans to coordinate care, improve healthcare service utilization, and reduce costs at an academic tertiary care center.

Background: High utilizers are medically and psychosocially complex, have high rates of emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions, and contribute to rising healthcare costs.

Objective: Develop individualized care plans to reduce unnecessary healthcare service utilization and hospital costs for complex, high utilizers of inpatient and ED care.

Design: Quality-improvement intervention with a retrospective pre/post intervention analysis.

Chronic-intermittent ethanol exposure during adolescence prevents normal developmental changes in sensitivity to ethanol-induced motor impairments.

Background: Recent evidence indicates that adolescent and adult rats are differentially sensitive to many of the acute effects of ethanol. Little is known about the neurobehavioral consequences of repeated ethanol exposure during adolescence relative to adulthood. In the present study we examined the impact of repeated ethanol exposure during adolescence and adulthood on subsequent sensitivity to ethanol-induced motor impairments.

Differential effects of ethanol on motor coordination in adolescent and adult rats.

Recent evidence suggests that adolescence represents a unique period of sensitivity to the effects of ethanol. Adolescent animals are more sensitive than adults to many of the effects of ethanol, including ethanol-induced learning and memory impairments, while being less sensitive to others, including ethanol-induced sedation. It is well known that ethanol produces dramatic impairments in balance and motor coordination.