Publications by authors named "M E N Majerus"
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- * Conducted at 19 pain and palliative care centers, the study found significant reductions in pain ratings from baseline to day 14, indicating that patients experienced relief.
- * The results showed that half of the participants responded positively to the treatment, with no serious adverse effects reported, supporting the idea of using low-dose methadone as a helpful addition to pain management strategies for cancer patients.
Rates of Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infection and Associated Factors in Olmsted County, Minnesota, in the Prevaccination Era.
Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes
December 2022
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to estimate the rates of asymptomatic COVID-19 and identify associated factors in Olmsted County's population during the periods before vaccines were available by screening first responders and county employees for antibodies and analyzing PCR-confirmed cases.
- - Among the screened groups, 10.5% of first responders and 6.7% of county employees tested positive for antibodies, with 20% of first responders and 26% of county employees being asymptomatic based on symptom information.
- - Overall, 6% of PCR-confirmed COVID-19 cases during the study period were asymptomatic, with age, body mass index, and timing of tests influencing asymptomatic rates, indicating that younger, normal-weight individuals tested
Objective: To identify risk factors associated with severe COVID-19 infection in a defined Midwestern US population overall and within different age groups.
Patients And Methods: We used the Rochester Epidemiology Project research infrastructure to identify persons residing in a defined 27-county Midwestern region who had positive results on polymerase chain reaction tests for COVID-19 between March 1, 2020, and September 30, 2020 (N=9928). Age, sex, race, ethnicity, body mass index, smoking status, and 44 chronic disease categories were considered as possible risk factors for severe infection.
Introduction: The goal of this project was to develop an interactive, web-based tool to explore patterns of prevalence and co-occurrence of diseases using data from the expanded Rochester Epidemiology Project (E-REP) medical records-linkage system.
Methods: We designed the REP Data Exploration Portal (REP DEP) to include summary information for people who lived in a 27-county region of southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin on January 1, 2014 (n = 694,506; 61% of the entire population). We obtained diagnostic codes of the International Classification of Diseases, 9th edition, from the medical records-linkage system in 2009 through 2013 (5 years) and grouped them into 717 disease categories.
Cervicofacial segmental infantile hemangiomas (IH) may result in airway obstruction requiring use of propranolol to induce hemangioma regression and reestablish the airway. We present the first case using intravenous (IV) propranolol for control of airway obstruction and rapid expansion of cervicofacial IH in the setting of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) impaired gastrointestinal function. Intravenous dosing of propranolol was tolerated well in a critically ill neonate with multisystem complications of prematurity.
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