Universal coverage for oral health care in 27 low-income countries: a scoping review.

Background: Low-income countries bear a growing and disproportionate burden of oral diseases. With the World Health Organization targeting universal oral health coverage by 2030, assessing the state of oral health coverage in these resource-limited nations becomes crucial. This research seeks to examine the political and resource commitments to oral health, along with the utilization rate of oral health services, across 27 low-income countries.

Evaluation of Financial Interventions in Breast Cancer Care Worldwide: A Systematic Review.

Background: Out-of-pocket costs are burdensome for breast cancer patients. Cost-reducing interventions, though implemented, have unclear comparative efficacy. This study aimed to critically evaluate characteristics of successful versus unsuccessful interventions designed to decrease out-of-pocket costs for breast cancer patients.

Strategies to Prevent Violence Against Children in the Home: A Systematic Review of Reviews.

Violence against children (VAC) in the home, or by household members, is a human rights and social problem with long-lasting consequences for individuals and society. Global policy instruments like the INSPIRE package have proposed strategies to prevent VAC, including Implementation and enforcement of laws, Norms and values, Safe environments, Parent and caregiver support, Income and economic strengthening, Response and support services, and Education and life skills. This systematic review of reviews aimed to synthesize the recent evidence base (i.

The Comorbidities, Radiographic Findings, Age, and Lymphopenia (CORAL) Tool: A Diagnostic Ally for Emergency Physicians Created for the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond.

Background: This study aimed to develop a novel clinical approach to predict intensive care unit (ICU) admission and mortality among coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in the emergency department (ED).

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted including adults ≥ 18 years diagnosed with COVID-19 in the emergency department and admitted to the ICU between March and July 2020 in an academic hospital. The outcome variables were mortality and ICU admission.

Renal Amyloidosis (AL Kappa Type) With an Uncommon Presentation: A Case Report.

Amyloidosis is a disease associated with deposits of amyloid fibrils that aggregate in various tissues leading to progressive organ failure and often multi-systemic involvement. It may be classified as localized or systemic, acquired or hereditary. Renal presentation is variable but can include nephrotic syndrome, acute renal failure, tubular dysfunction, or just varying degrees of proteinuria.

Acute Intermittent Porphyria's Symptoms and Management: A Narrative Review.

Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is an autosomal dominant disorder of heme biosynthesis in the liver that is caused by the accumulation of toxic heme metabolites aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and porphobilinogen (PBG) due to a deficiency in the enzyme hydroxymethylbilane synthase (HMBS). The prevalence of AIP is found to commonly affect females of reproductive age (ages 15-50) and people of Northern European descent. The clinical manifestations of AIP include acute and chronic symptoms that can be outlined into three phases: the prodromal phase, the visceral symptom phase, and the neurological phase.

Twenty Years After the EMS Research Agenda: Trends in Emergency Medical Services Publications and Research Funding.

Study Objective: Since its publication in 2001, the National EMS Research Agenda has brought attention to a relative paucity of emergency medical services (EMS)-specific research and has called for an increase in funding and infrastructure to support EMS research. We investigated the trends in EMS-specific publications and National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research grants in the 20 years since this landmark publication.

Methods: We performed a structured PubMed search of English-language citations from 2001 to 2020 to identify publications with populations, settings, or topics related to EMS care, education, or operations.

Trends in…The Importance of Amplifying Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academic Health Sciences Libraries.

Formalizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles and practices in health sciences libraries should be an organizational goal. Organizations should strive to build and sustain a culture of equity and inclusion in which diversity is integrated into their core operations. Health sciences libraries should design systems, policies, procedures, and practices that align with and support these principles in collaboration with partners and stakeholders that share these values.

Financial Toxicity Among Patients With Breast Cancer Worldwide: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Importance: Financial toxicity (FT) is the negative impact of cost of care on financial well-being. Patients with breast cancer are at risk for incurring high out-of-pocket costs given the long-term need for multidisciplinary care and expensive treatments.

Objective: To quantify the FT rate of patients with breast cancer and identify particularly vulnerable patient populations nationally and internationally.

Prevention of violence against children in the home: an overview of reviews protocol.

Background: Violence against children (VAC) in the home, or by household members, is a widespread problem with devastating and costly consequences for individuals and societies. In the past two decades, much research has been dedicated to the prevention of VAC in the home, in particular, in low- and- middle-income countries, but there are few systematic examinations of the growing body of literature. We present a protocol for an overview of reviews to synthesize the evidence from recent reviews on the effectiveness and characteristics of both universal and selective interventions to prevent VAC in the home or by household members.

Family Involvement in the Routine Care of Hospitalized Preterm or Low Birth Weight Infants: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Background And Objectives: Preterm and low birth weight (LBW) infants are often separated from parents during hospitalization. Our objective was to assess effects of interventions to increase family involvement in the routine newborn care of preterm or LBW infants compared with standard NICU care on infant and parental outcomes.

Methods: Data sources include Medline, Embase, CINAHL, and World Health Organization Global Index Medicus to August 2021.

Focal Cooling for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: A Review.

Importance: Epilepsy affects at least 1.2% of the population, with one-third of cases considered to be drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). For these cases, focal cooling therapy may be a potential avenue for treatment, offering hope to people with DRE for freedom from seizure.

Trauma-informed Care Interventions in Emergency Medicine: A Systematic Review.

Introduction: Trauma exposure is a highly prevalent experience for patients and clinicians in emergency medicine (EM). Trauma-informed care (TIC) is an effective framework to mitigate the negative health impacts of trauma. This systematic review synthesizes the range of TIC interventions in EM, with a focus on patient and clinician outcomes, and identifies gaps in the current research on implementing TIC.

Trends in…Controlled Vocabulary and Health Equity.

Medical librarians collaborate with physicians and other healthcare professionals to improve the quality and accessibility of medical information, which includes assembling the best evidence to advance health equality through teaching and research. This column brings together brief cases highlighting the experiences and perspectives of medical librarians, educators, and healthcare professionals using their organizational, pedagogical, and information-analysis skills to advance health equality indexing.

Trends in…Medical Library Essential Services.

This column introduces a new recurring section, and its editors, in . The inaugural column addresses the ways in which academic medical libraries define and deliver essential services in the shifting landscape of budget constraints, an ongoing pandemic, and user needs that change as technology evolves.

Leadership Development in U.S. Undergraduate Medical Education: A Scoping Review of Curricular Content and Competency Frameworks.

Purpose: To inform research on developing or adopting leadership competency frameworks for use in U.S. undergraduate medical education (UME), this scoping review describes the content of U.

Training and educational programs that support geriatric dental care in rural settings: A scoping review.

Purpose/objectives: Access to dental care for older adults is challenging, especially for those living in rural areas. People living in rural areas are less likely to visit the dentist, have greater oral health needs, and face significant oral health disparities. Given the projected increase in the older adult population, the aim of this study was to conduct a scoping review (SR) to identify the current landscape of geriatric dental training in rural healthcare settings.

Critical Concepts for COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Site Operations.

Mass vaccination campaigns have been used effectively to limit the impact of communicable disease on public health. However, the scale of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination campaign is unprecedented. Mass vaccination sites consolidate resources and experience into a single entity and are essential to achieving community ("herd") immunity rapidly, efficiently, and equitably.

Genetic counseling and testing for Asian Americans: a systematic review.

Purpose: Asian Americans have been understudied in the literature on genetic and genomic services. The current study systematically identified, evaluated, and summarized findings from relevant qualitative and quantitative studies on genetic health care for Asian Americans.

Methods: A search of five databases (1990 to 2018) returned 8,522 unique records.

Impact of multidisciplinary team huddles on patient safety: a systematic review and proposed taxonomy.

Background: Despite significant advances, patient safety remains a critical public health concern. Daily huddles-discussions to identify and respond to safety risks-have been credited with enhancing safety culture in operationally complex industries including aviation and nuclear power. More recently, huddles have been endorsed as a mechanism to improve patient safety in healthcare.

Can Patient-Provider Interpersonal Interventions Achieve the Quadruple Aim of Healthcare? A Systematic Review.

Background: Human connection is at the heart of medical care, but questions remain as to the effectiveness of interpersonal interventions. The purpose of this review was to characterize the associations between patient-provider interpersonal interventions and the quadruple aim outcomes (population health, patient experience, cost, and provider experience).

Methods: We sourced data from PubMed, EMBASE, and PsycInfo (January 1997-August 2017).

Extending medical librarians' competencies to enhance collection organisation.

Background: Like many health library associations, the Medical Library Association (MLA) developed competencies guiding lifelong learning and competence for medical librarians. Medical librarians should be able to develop skills in identified areas. One MLA indicator of organising resources defines expert skill as the ability to develop classification and metadata schemes for unique collections.

Measuring impostor phenomenon among health sciences librarians.

Objective: Impostor phenomenon, also known as impostor syndrome, is the inability to internalize accomplishments while experiencing the fear of being exposed as a fraud. Previous work has examined impostor phenomenon among academic college and research librarians, but health sciences librarians, who are often asked to be experts in medical subject areas with minimal training or education in these areas, have not yet been studied. The aim of this study was to measure impostor phenomenon among health sciences librarians.

Motivational interviewing in eHealth and telehealth interventions for weight loss: A systematic review.

The alarming prevalence of adult obesity warrants consideration of treatments with broad reach; digital health interventions meet this need and have demonstrated efficacy for weight loss. One approach that can be delivered remotely is motivational interviewing - a counseling style that helps resolve ambivalence to change unhealthy behavior. This is the first review to systematically examine eHealth and telehealth interventions that incorporate motivational interviewing for weight loss.