The association of workforce configurations with length of stay and charges in hospitalized patients with congestive heart failure.

Introduction: Clinicians are the conduits of high-quality care delivery. Clinicians have driven advancements in pharmacotherapeutics, devices, and related interventions and improved morbidity and mortality in patients with congestive heart failure over the past decade. Yet, the management of congestive heart failure has become extraordinarily complex and has fueled recommendations from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology to optimize the composition of the care team to reduce the health, economic, and the health system burden of high lengths of stay and hospital charges.

ImpENSA eHealthy Conversation Skills training for healthcare professionals aimed at improving micronutrient status during the first 1000 days in South Africa.

Individuals' lifestyle behaviours determine health. Improving Early Nutrition and Health in South Africa ("ImpENSA"), an EU Erasmus+ co-funded project, aims to tackle the triple burden of malnutrition in South Africa through equipping healthcare professionals (HCPs) with knowledge and skills to effectively support healthy nutritional choices among pregnant women and mothers/infant caregivers. Healthy Conversation Skills (HCS) is a behaviour change intervention utilising open discovery questions, active listening, reflection on practice and goal-setting support through SMARTER (Specific, Measured, Action-oriented, Realistic, Timed, Evaluated and Reviewed) planning as core competences.

The MED13L Foundation strategic research plan: a roadmap to the future.

A strategic research plan (SRP) serves as a compass for the patient advocacy organizations driving the therapeutic options for their rare disorder. The MED13L Foundation commissioned the SRP in 2022 through COMBINEDBrain, a consortium of patient advocacy organizations of rare neurodevelopmental disorders, working toward clinical trial readiness. The MED13L Foundation SRP is an objective evaluation of MED13L literature including clinical and basic science knowledge interwoven with an assessment of preclinical trial readiness tools necessary for achieving therapeutic interventions.

Racial Disparities in Hospital Utilization Among Patients with Multimorbidity.

Background: It is reported that racial differences exist among patients with multimorbidity. However, there are no studies that have investigated racial disparities within multimorbidity-related hospitalization encounters among patients with multimorbidity in rural states such as Arkansas.

Methods: Binomial logistic regression identified associations between race and hospitalization utilization.

Intensive Care Unit Readmissions in a Level I Trauma Center.

Introduction: Intensive care unit (ICU) readmissions are associated with increased morbidity and mortality rates, longer hospitalization, and increased health-care expenditures. This study sought to present a large cohort of trauma patients readmitted to the ICU, characterizing risk factors and providing quality improvement strategies to limit ICU readmission.

Methods: A retrospective cohort analysis was conducted on adult trauma patients admitted to the ICU at a single level I trauma center from 2014 to 2021.