Admission screening testing of patients and staff N95 respirators are cost-effective in reducing COVID-19 hospital-acquired infections.

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks in acute care settings can have severe consequences for patients due to their underlying vulnerabilities, and can be costly due to additional patient bed-days and the need to replace isolating staff. This study assessed the cost-effectiveness of clinical staff N95 respirators and admission screening testing of patients to reduce COVID-19 hospital-acquired infections.

Methods: An agent-based model was calibrated to data on 178 outbreaks in acute care settings in Victoria, Australia between October 2021 and July 2023.

Disturbed anabolic hormonal patterns in burned patients: the relation to glucagon.

Objective: Complex changes in the anabolic regulators of metabolism occur after major injury. We have studied the time course for IGF-I and IGFBP-1 after burn injury and their relations to circulating levels of other anabolic and catabolic hormones. The hormonal patterns during the onset of sepsis were also investigated.

Two cases of de novo precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with t(14;18), but without cytogenetic evidence of an associated Burkitt's or Burkitt's variant translocation.

This study reports two cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia of precursor B-cell type. The cases were associated with a t(14;18), but no evidence of a Burkitt's-type translocation was found. There was also no evidence of a preexisting follicular lymphoma.