Outcomes of COVID-19 in people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease in Ireland over the first 2 years of the pandemic.

Background: Poor COVID-19 outcomes occur with higher frequency in people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD). Better understanding of the factors involved is crucial to informing patients and clinicians regarding risk mitigation.

Aim: To describe COVID-19 outcomes for people with RMD in Ireland over the first 2 years of the pandemic.

Temporal trends in COVID-19 outcomes in people with rheumatic diseases in Ireland: data from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance registry.

Objectives: Although evidence is accumulating globally, data on outcomes in rheumatic disease and COVID-19 in Ireland are limited. We used data from the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance (C19-GRA) to describe time-varying COVID-19 outcomes for people with rheumatic disease in Ireland.

Methods: Data entered into the C19-GRA provider registry from Ireland between 24 March 2020 and 9 July 2021 were analysed.

Monitoring the incidence and causes of disease potentially transmitted by food in Australia: Annual report of the OzFoodNet network, 2016.

In 2016, a total of 44,455 notifications of enteric diseases potentially related to food were received by state and territory health departments in Australia. Consistent with previous years, campylobacteriosis (n = 24,171) and salmonellosis (n = 18,060) were the most frequently-notified infections. Notable increases in incidence were observed for shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (n = 343; 166% increase), shigellosis (n = 1,408; 93% increase), campylobacteriosis (33% increase) and salmonellosis (30% increase) when compared with the historical five-year mean.

Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units.

Background: An evidence-based teamwork system, Team-STEPPS, was implemented in an academic medical center's pediatric and surgical ICUs.

Methods: A multidisciplinary change team of unit- and department-based leaders was formed to champion the initiative; develop a customized action plan for implementation; train frontline staff; and identify process, team outcome, and clinical outcome objectives for the intervention. The evaluation consisted of interviews with key staff, teamwork observations, staff surveys, and clinical outcome data.

A prospective, clinical and radiological study of early psoriatic arthritis: an early synovitis clinic experience.

Objective: To determine the clinical presentation and clinical and radiological outcome of early psoriatic arthritis (PsA) at 1 and 2 yr.

Methods: Patients with PsA were assessed at the St. Vincent's University Hospital Early Synovitis Clinic.

A classification study of clinical subsets in an inception cohort of early psoriatic peripheral arthritis--'DIP or not DIP revisited'.

Introduction: Multiple psoriatic arthritis (PsA) classification criteria exist, but these are based on established PsA when pre-existing joint damage and the effect of medication may confound their validity. This study examined the application of the Veale classification criteria in early PsA to determine the effect of disease progression and treatment on classification and to determine the effect of the number of involved joints and the presence of distal interphalangeal (DIP) joint involvement at initial presentation on clinical and radiological outcome.

Methods: A total of 129 patients presenting with PsA to an Irish early synovitis clinic were assessed at presentation and at 1- and 2-yr follow-up.

Psoriasis predicts a poor short-term outcome in patients with spondylarthropathy.

Objective: The outcome of patients with recent-onset spondylarthropathy (SpA) is unclear. Therefore, the objective of this study was to prospectively correlate clinical and laboratory features with functional and radiologic outcome in patients with psoriatic SpA (PsS), undifferentiated SpA (uSpA), and Reiter's syndrome/reactive arthritis (ReA).

Methods: Patients presenting to an early arthritis clinic with a spondylarthropathy pattern of peripheral arthritis were selected and prospectively followed.