The well-being of primary care clinicians represents an area of increasing interest amid concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated already high prevalence rates of clinician burnout. This retrospective cohort study was designed to identify demographic, clinical, and work-specific factors that may have contributed to newly acquired burnout after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. An anonymous web-based questionnaire distributed in August 2020 to New York State (NYS) primary care clinicians, via email outreach and newsletters, produced 1,499 NYS primary care clinician survey respondents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDesigning effective interventions for youth to address STI/HIV risk factors requires local context knowledge. This study gathers information about STI/HIV knowledge among Georgian youth, identifies STI/HIV risk behaviors and quantifies associations between socio-demographic factors and risk practices with HIV/STIs knowledge. Cross-sectional survey was conducted among 411 students using self-administered questionnaire.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this paper is to introduce participants to our journey of integrating Universal Design as a central part of a new Technological University in addressing the challenge of a consistent quality experience for all learners. Adopting and combining both the principles of universal design and universal design for learning is not to make it easier but to offer a framework of principles and guidelines to make education appropriate and challenging for everyone. Ken Robinson wrote "A vibrant school can nourish an entire community by becoming a source of hope and creative energy…Poor schools can drain the optimism from all the students and families who depend on it by diminishing their opportunities for growth and development" (1).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOsteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis are both diseases of joints, but they have very different etiologies. Osteoarthritis is a disease assumed to result from wear and tear over time, whereas rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease where the body's immune system attacks joint tissues. Using NHANES data (1999-2015), we have compared the influence of age, sex, ethnicity, body mass index and smoking on these two very different forms of arthritis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe increased focus on addressing severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality has led to studies investigating patient and hospital characteristics associated with longer hospital stays. Length of stay (LOS) for delivery hospitalizations has a strongly skewed distribution with the vast majority of LOS lasting two to three days in the United States. Prior studies typically focused on common LOSs and dealt with the long LOS distribution tail in ways to fit conventional statistical analyses (e.
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