Growth of Private Equity and Hospital Consolidation in Primary Care and Price Implications.

Importance: Consolidation of physician practices by hospitals and private equity (PE) firms has increased rapidly. This trend is of particular importance within primary care. Despite its significance, there is no systematic evidence on the emerging trends in ownership affiliation of primary care physicians (PCPs) and its association with prices paid for physician services.

Infection During Pregnancy and Effects on Pregnancy Outcomes in Israel.

is a parasite that typically causes self-limited gastroenteritis. Little is known about the course of infection and its impact during pregnancy. This retrospective cohort study conducted in Israel assessed the effects of infection on pregnancy and obstetrical outcomes.

Outcomes and costs of home hospitalisation compared to traditional hospitalisation for infectious diseases in Israel: a cohort study.

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate and compare health outcomes and costs between home hospitalisation and traditional hospitalisation for three common diagnoses-cellulitis, urinary tract infection (UTI) and pneumonia.

Design: A retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Primary care, nationwide.

Socioecological drivers of mutualistic and antagonistic plant-insect interactions and interaction outcomes in suburban landscapes.

Cities are complex socioecological systems, yet most urban ecology research does not include the influence of social processes on ecological outcomes. Much of the research that does address social processes focuses primarily on their effects on biotic community composition, with less attention paid to how social processes affect species interactions. Linking social processes to ecological outcomes is complicated by high spatial heterogeneity in cities and the potential for scale mismatch between social and ecological processes, and the indicators used to assess those processes.