Publications by authors named "Layla M Aboukhater"

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  • The study investigates how race and socioeconomic status affect the rates of reconstructive procedures and outcomes for melanoma patients, highlighting disparities faced by Black and Hispanic patients compared to non-Hispanic Whites.
  • Data from the National Inpatient Sample (2010-2015) reveal that Black and Hispanic patients experience longer hospital stays and are less likely to receive complex reconstructive surgeries compared to their White counterparts.
  • The findings suggest that living in a rural area negatively impacts access to complex procedures, and smaller hospitals tend to perform fewer of these intricate surgeries, indicating significant racial and socioeconomic disparities in melanoma treatment.
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Village health workers (VHWs) serve as an integral health resource for many resource limited nations, including the Kingdom of Bhutan. As such, we aimed to identify community perceptions as well as utilization rates and types with relation to VHWs based on the urban-rural divide. Our team conducted a randomized survey of 429 community members in 14 villages within the Western region of Bhutan.

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Background: Village health workers (VHWs) in Bhutan play an all-encompassing role in supporting the health of their communities. Recent reports from the Bhutan Ministry of Health have indicated a sharp reduction in the number of working VHWs. As such, our work attempts to estimate the cost saved and the number of averted hospital admissions onto the Bhutanese healthcare system and the individuals who are served by these health workers.

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HIV posttreatment controllers (PTCs) represent a natural model of sustained HIV remission, but they are rare and little is known about their viral reservoir. We obtained 1,450 proviral sequences after near-full-length amplification for 10 PTCs and 16 posttreatment noncontrollers (NCs). Before treatment interruption, the median intact and total reservoir size in PTCs was 7-fold lower than in NCs, but the proportion of intact, defective, and total clonally expanded proviral genomes was not significantly different between the 2 groups.

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