A Social Worker-Led Primary Palliative Care Model for Hospitalized Patients Admitted to the Hospital Medicine Service.

To increase earlier access to palliative care, and in turn increase documented goals of care and appropriate hospice referrals for seriously ill patients admitted to hospital medicine. Due to the growing number of patients with serious illness and the specialty palliative care workforce shortage, innovative primary palliative care models are essential to meet this population's needs. Patients with serious illness admitted to hospital medicine at a quaternary urban academic medical center in New York City and received an embedded palliative care social worker consultation in 2017.

The Impact of Bedside Interdisciplinary Rounds on Length of Stay and Complications.

Background: Communication among team members within hospitals is typically fragmented. Bedside interdisciplinary rounds (IDR) have the potential to improve communication and outcomes through enhanced structure and patient engagement.

Objective: To decrease length of stay (LOS) and complications through the transformation of daily IDR to a bedside model.

Case Report of Cryptococcus Albidus Peritonitis in a Peritoneal Dialysis Patient and a Review of the Literature.

Cryptococcus albidus is a saprophytic yeast linked to just 26 reports of human infection in the world literature. Here, we report the first case of C. albidus peritonitis, in a patient with end-stage renal disease and hepatitis C-associated cirrhosis who is on peritoneal dialysis.

Whole-community facilitation regulates biodiversity on Patagonian rocky shores.

Background: Understanding the factors that generate and maintain biodiversity is a central goal in ecology. While positive species interactions (i.e.

A comparison of blood pressure, body mass index, and acanthosis nigricans in school-age children.

The purpose of this retrospective quantitative study was to examine the relationships among acanthosis nigricans (AN), body mass index (BMI), blood pressure (BP), school grade, and gender in children attending elementary school located in South West Texas. Data were collected by attending school district nurses. Researchers reviewed 7,026 previously collected records from a state mandated public school health screening program in elementary school Grades 3, 5, 7, and 9, conducted by school nurses.

[IMPACT OF THE IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM INTEGRATED TO THE EXPANDED IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM(EPI) IN HUANTA,1994-1997].

INTRODUCTION: Huanta is an interandean valley at 2,400 meters above sea level in the peruvian highlands. It is hyperendemic for HBV, and deaths related to HBV such a fulminant hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatic carcinoma make up 8% of the total mortality. A pilot program of inmunization against HBV integrated with the Expanded Immunization Program (EPI) was established in 1994, so as to limit the incidence if HBV-HDV, and as a strategy to improve EPI coverages.