Effects of Demographic Identities on Psychosocial Burdens of Patients Living in the United States With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Introduction: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease predominantly affecting women, particularly in African American populations. While its physical health impacts are well-documented, patients also face significant psychosocial burdens, including barriers to healthcare access, financial constraints, mental health challenges, and inadequate social support.

Study Goal: This cross-sectional study surveyed 294 SLE patients recruited from Facebook and Reddit social media forums to examine how demographic factors such as age, race/ethnicity, and geographic location influence these burdens.

Lady With the Blue Hair: An Atypical Cause of Myasthenic Crisis.

A myasthenic crisis denotes a severe exacerbation of myasthenia gravis, leading a patient to enter a life-threatening state due to progressing muscle weakness that ultimately results in respiratory failure. A crisis can require intubation, mechanical ventilation, and additional critical care to prevent further decompensation and potentially death. Numerous well-documented precipitating factors exist, such as infections, surgery, stress, and various medications.

Medical Implications of Restricting Abortions on Women Diagnosed With Fetal Anomalies Following the Overturn of Roe v. Wade: A Scoping Review.

This scoping review addresses the potential maternal health outcomes of abortion restrictions in the U.S. by studying and analyzing the reported effects of abortion bans or limitations globally.

The Impact of Weight Loss Prior to Hospital Readmission.

Hospital readmissions place a burden on hospitals. Reducing the readmission number and duration will help reduce the burden. Weight loss might affect readmission risk, especially the risk of an early (<30 days) readmission.

Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Relationship Between Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Mental Wellness.

The purpose of the study was to determine whether there was a relationship between adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) and levels of anxiety, depression, and overall mental well-being. The Mediterranean diet is a popular, healthy diet, aimed to promote wellness and reduce chronic illness. In order to determine the relationship between MD and mental well-being, 100 participants consented to complete an online survey to analyze their adherence to MD, along with levels of anxiety and depression.

The Impact of Morbid Obesity on the Health Outcomes of Hospital Inpatients: An Observational Study.

Morbid obesity poses a significant burden on the health-care system. This study determined whether morbid obesity leads to worse health-outcomes in hospitalised patients. This retrospective-study examined nutritional data of all inpatients aged 18-79 years, with a body-mass-index (BMI) ≥ 18.

Cancers of the corpus uteri treated in South Australian public hospitals: Trends in clinical management and survival across three decades.

Objective: To investigate treatment and survival over three decades.

Methods: Clinical registry data from three major public hospitals analysed using Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimates and multivariate proportional hazard regression to determine disease-specific survival.

Results: Five-year survival increased from 75% to 84%.

Time from diagnosis to treatment of colorectal cancer in a South Australian clinical registry cohort: how it varies and relates to survival.

Objectives: Some early studies indicated lower survival with longer time from diagnosis to cancer treatment, but others showed the reverse. We investigated time to treatment of colorectal cancer and associations with survival.

Setting And Participants: Clinical registry data for colorectal cancer cases diagnosed in 2000-2010 at four major public hospitals in South Australia and treated by surgery (n=1675), radiotherapy (n=616) and/or systemic therapy (n=1556).

Pre-diagnostic colonoscopies reduce cancer mortality - results from linked population-based data in South Australia.

Background: To investigate the association between pre-diagnostic colonoscopy and colorectal cancer mortality in South Australia.

Methods: Colonoscopy histories were obtained for colorectal cancer patients diagnosed in 2003-2013 using linked Medical Benefits Schedule (MBS) claims, hospital-inpatient and cancer-registry data. Colonoscopy histories included the year of colonoscopy, numbers of examinations, and the time from first colonoscopy to diagnosis.

Exploring the added value of hospital-registry data for showing local service outcomes: cancers of the ovary, fallopian tube and peritoneum.

Objectives: To explore the added value of hospital-registry data on invasive epithelial ovarian, tubal and peritoneal cancers.

Design: Historic cohort analyses.

Methods: Unadjusted and adjusted regression.

Using hospital registries in Australia to extend data availability on vulval cancer treatment and survival.

Background: The value of hospital registries for describing treatment and survival outcomes for vulval cancer was investigated. Hospital registry data from four major public hospitals in 1984-2016 were used because population-based data lacked required treatment and outcomes data. Unlike population registries, the hospital registries had recorded FIGO stage, grade and treatment.

Female breast cancer management and survival: The experience of major public hospitals in South Australia over 3 decades-trends by age and in the elderly.

Background: Clinical registry data from major South Australian public hospitals were used to investigate trends in invasive breast-cancer treatment and survival by age.

Methods: Disease-specific survival was calculated for the 1980 to 2013 diagnostic period using Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimates, with a censoring of live cases on December 31, 2014. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to examine differences in survival by age and tumour characteristic.

Use of guideline-recommended adjuvant therapies and survival outcomes for people with colorectal cancer at tertiary referral hospitals in South Australia.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: Adjuvant care for colorectal cancer (CRC) has increased over the past 3 decades in South Australia (SA) in accordance with national treatment guidelines. This study explores the (1) receipt of adjuvant therapy for CRC in SA as related to national guideline recommendations, with a focus on stage C colon and stage B and C rectal cancer; (2) timing of these adjuvant therapies in relation to surgery; and (3) comparative survival outcomes.

Methods: Data from the SA Clinical Cancer Registry from 4 tertiary referral hospitals for 2000 to 2010 were examined.

Breast cancer screening-opportunistic use of registry and linked screening data for local evaluation.

Rationale: Screening has been found to reduce breast cancer mortality at a population level in Australia, but these studies did not address local settings where numbers of deaths would generally have been too low for evaluation. Clinicians, administrators, and consumer groups are also interested in local service outcomes. We therefore use more common prognostic and treatment measures and survivals to gain evidence of screening effects among patients attending 4 local hospitals for treatment.

Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Treatment and Survival: the Experience of Major Public Hospitals in South Australia Over Three Decades.

Background: Registry data from four major public hospitals indicate trends over three decades from 1980 to 2010 in treatment and survival from colorectal cancer with distant metastases at diagnosis (TNM stage IV).

Materials And Methods: Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimates and Cox proportional hazards models for investigating disease-specific survival and multiple logistic regression analyses for indicating first-round treatment trends.

Results: Two-year survivals increased from 10% for 1980-84 to 35% for 2005-10 diagnoses.

Colorectal cancer treatment and survival: the experience of major public hospitals in south Australia over three decades.

Background: Registry data from four major public hospitals indicate trends in clinical care and survival from colorectal cancer over three decades, from 1980 to 2010.

Materials And Methods: Kaplan-Meier product- limit estimates and Cox proportional hazards models were used to investigate disease-specific survival and multiple logistic regression analyses to explore first-round treatment trends.

Results: Five-year survivals increased from 48% for 1980-1986 to 63% for 2005-2010 diagnoses.