Key factors for sustainable working conditions in emergency departments: an EUSEM-initiated, Europe-wide consensus survey.

Background And Importance: Modern emergency medicine (EM) is a complex, demanding, and occasionally stressful field of work. Working conditions, provider well-being, and associated health and performance outcomes are key factors influencing the establishment of a sustainable emergency department (ED) working environment.

Objectives: This multinational European Delphi survey aimed to identify unequivocal major factors for good and poor ED working conditions and their possible effects on health care provider well-being.

G1 is the major risk allele for hypertension-attributed nephropathy in Central Africa.

Background: Sub-Saharan Africans exhibit a higher frequency of chronic kidney disease (CKD) than other populations. In this study, we sought to determine the frequency of apolipoprotein L1 () genotypes in hypertension-attributed CKD in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Methods: We performed a case-control study identifying 162 subjects: 79 with hypertension-attributed CKD and 83 controls living in Kinshasa who were genotyped for risk variants between July 2013 and November 2016.

Towards standardization of F-FET PET imaging: do we need a consistent method of background activity assessment?

Background: PET with O-(2-F-fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine (F-FET) has reached increasing clinical significance for patients with brain neoplasms. For quantification of standard PET-derived parameters such as the tumor-to-background ratio, the background activity is assessed using a region of interest (ROI) or volume of interest (VOI) in unaffected brain tissue. However, there is no standardized approach regarding the assessment of the background reference.