Evaluating the effect of COVID-19 on quality measures of patients with type 2 diabetes in two family nurse practitioner-owned clinics.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated lockdowns resulting in the disruption of access to primary care. A family nurse practitioner (NP)-owned practice shifted many visits to telehealth to provide care to all their patients including those with chronic illness . The purpose of this project was to evaluate the impact of the pandemic on selected diabetes quality measures and adherence to national diabetes guidelines in two previously well-performing NP-owned primary care clinics.

Nutrient sources for offspring formation: diet-mother and mother-offspring isotope discrimination in domesticated gallinaceous birds.

Stable isotope techniques can be used to assess nutrient acquisition and allocation strategies used to produce offspring. Before stable isotope techniques can be employed, researchers need reliable isotope discrimination values. In this context, isotope discrimination compares the difference in the isotope ratio between the maternal-offspring tissue that occurs during nutrient transfer prior to egg laying.