Publications by authors named "K Basile"
Intimate partner violence (IPV) can include emotional, physical, or sexual violence. IPV during pregnancy is a preventable cause of injury and death with negative short- and long-term impacts for pregnant women, infants, and families. Using data from the 2016-2022 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System in nine U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReproductive coercion has been associated with adverse reproductive health experiences. This study examined the relationship between nonuse of contraception due to partner objection, one aspect of reproductive coercion, and selected pregnancy-related outcomes. We used 2016-2020 data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System in 22 jurisdictions to assess the prevalence of nonuse of contraception due to a partner objection by select characteristics among individuals with a recent live birth who reported an unintended pregnancy.
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- The study looked at how the COVID-19 pandemic affected intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy.
- It found that some women reported physical violence or increased aggression from their partners because of stress from the pandemic.
- The results suggest that there is a need for more support and resources to help prevent violence during pregnancy, especially during difficult times like a public health emergency.
Drug dispensing in retail pharmacies typically involves several manual tasks that often lead to inefficiencies and errors. This is the first published quality improvement study in Latin America, specifically in Brazil, investigating the operational impacts of implementing a robotic dispensing system in a retail pharmacy. Through observational techniques, we measured the time required for the following pharmacy workflows before and after implementing the robotic dispensing system: customer service, receiving stock, stocking inventory, separation, invoicing, and packaging of online orders for delivery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The biological effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection in transplanted kidneys are uncertain with little pathological information.
Methods: This single-center, prospective observational study evaluated kidney transplant biopsies from recipients of deceased donors with COVID-19, current recipients contracting SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in 2022, against prior BK virus (BKV) infection and uninfected (without SARS-CoV-2 or BKV) samples, as respective positive and negative comparators (n = 503 samples).
Results: We demonstrated nonvirus tubular injury in implanted tissue from infected donors and prevalent recipients with mild acute COVID-19 and acute kidney injury, excluding direct viral infection as a cause of kidney damage.