The first 20 months of the COVID-19 pandemic: Mortality, intubation and ICU rates among 104,590 patients hospitalized at 21 United States health systems.

Main Objective: There is limited information on how patient outcomes have changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study characterizes changes in mortality, intubation, and ICU admission rates during the first 20 months of the pandemic.

Study Design And Methods: University of Wisconsin researchers collected and harmonized electronic health record data from 1.

Relations of Current and Past Cancer with Severe Outcomes among 104,590 Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients: The COVID EHR Cohort at the University of Wisconsin.

Background: There is mixed evidence about the relations of current versus past cancer with severe COVID-19 outcomes and how they vary by patient and cancer characteristics.

Methods: Electronic health record data of 104,590 adult hospitalized patients with COVID-19 were obtained from 21 United States health systems from February 2020 through September 2021. In-hospital mortality and ICU admission were predicted from current and past cancer diagnoses.

Change in Health-Related Quality of Life Among Individuals With Cancer Undergoing Smoking Cessation Treatment Involving Varenicline.

Objectives: To determine whether health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among individuals with cancer is undermined by smoking cessation treatment involving varenicline.

Sample & Setting: Participants (N = 103) were daily smokers with cancer (up to five years postdiagnosis) who completed a placebo-controlled trial of standard versus extended duration varenicline.

Methods & Variables: For this secondary study, participants were selected based on having completed the SF-12® at weeks 0, 1, 12, and 24.

Leveraging Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement via the Electronic Health Record to Connect Patients with Cancer to Smoking Cessation Treatment.

Tobacco use negatively impacts cancer treatment outcomes, yet too few providers actively support their patients in quitting. Barriers to consistently addressing tobacco use and referring to treatment include time constraints and lack of knowledge surrounding treatment options. Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) measurement is best practice in cancer care and has potential to help address these barriers to tobacco cessation treatment.

Naloxone access for Emergency Medical Technicians: An evaluation of a training program in rural communities.

Introduction: Opioid-related overdose death rates in rural communities in the United States are much higher than their urban counterparts. However, basic life support (BLS) personnel, who are more common in rural areas, have much lower rates of naloxone administration than other levels of emergency medical services (EMS). Training and equipping basic level Emergency Medical Technician (EMTs) to administer naloxone for an opioid overdose could yield positive outcomes.

Associations between body mass and papillary thyroid cancer stage and tumor size: a population-based study.

Purpose: The incidence of large thyroid tumors has increased over the past decades, suggesting that improved diagnosis is not the only driver of increased thyroid cancer incidence. Obesity has recently been implicated as an independent risk factor for thyroid cancer in specific populations. We aimed to investigate whether thyroid tumor size and advanced stage of diagnosis is associated with the obesity epidemic, for the first time, in a US population-based cohort.

Does interpersonal loss preceding panic disorder onset moderate response to psychotherapy? An exploratory study.

Background: Little research has addressed moderators of treatment outcome for anxiety disorders, and none has considered interpersonal loss as a predictor of outcome.

Purpose: To examine the effect of interpersonal loss events within the 6 weeks preceding panic disorder onset as a moderator of outcome in a randomized controlled trial of Panic-Focused Psychodynamic Therapy (PFPP) and Applied Relaxation Therapy (ART). Researchers hypothesized that such loss events would predict better outcome in PFPP but would not affect ART outcome.

A randomized controlled clinical trial of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for panic disorder.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy relative to applied relaxation training, a credible psychotherapy comparison condition. Despite the widespread clinical use of psychodynamic psychotherapies, randomized controlled clinical trials evaluating such psychotherapies for axis I disorders have lagged. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first efficacy randomized controlled clinical trial of panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy, a manualized psychoanalytical psychotherapy for patients with DSM-IV panic disorder.

Development and evaluation of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for juvenile fibromyalgia.

Objective: To describe the development and test the efficacy of a cognitive-behavioral intervention (CBT) for juvenile fibromyalgia.

Method: Sixty-seven children with fibromyalgia and their parents were recruited to participate in an 8-week intervention that included modules of pain management, psychoeducation, sleep hygiene, and activities of daily living. Children were taught techniques of cognitive restructuring, thought stopping, distraction, relaxation, and self-reward.

Psychometric characteristics of the conceptions of mathematics questionnaire.

This study describes the psychometric characteristics of the 19-item Conceptions of Mathematics Questionnaire for a total of 158 students (86 women and 72 men). The coefficient alpha of internal consistency reliability was .75.

Clinical efficacy of methylphenidate in conduct disorder with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Background: Stimulants are not considered appropriate for the treatment of children with conduct disorders (CDs). The postulated differences in stimulant effect between children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and CD led to the hypothesis that methylphenidate hydrochloride, which is effective in ADHD, would not significantly improve symptoms of CD.

Methods: We randomly assigned 84 children with CD, between the ages of 6 and 15 years, to receive methylphenidate hydrochloride (up to 60 mg/d) or placebo for 5 weeks.

[Calculation of the effective dose in human external irradiation with photons and neutrons].

The method of calculation of the effective dose equivalent for external neutron and photon radiation are presented. Adjoint transport Monte-Carlo code ROBOT is used to calculate fluence-to-effective dose conversion function for MIRD phantoms. Two broad neutron and photon beam irradiations were chosen frontally and isotropically.

DSM-III-R personality diagnoses in anxiety disorder patients.

This study compared clinical characteristics of anxiety disorder patients with and without a co-occurring diagnosis of personality disorder. A structured diagnostic interview for anxiety disorders was used to make DSM-III-R diagnoses and to derive clinical ratings. The personality diagnosis group (n = 27) was compared with a large clinical series of anxiety disorder patients (n = 288) and with a group of patients without personality diagnoses who were matched on primary anxiety diagnosis, sex, and age (n = 25).