How Do Weapons Screening Programs Reduce Armed Hospital Assault? A Scoping Review of Public Health Principles.

Purpose: Healthcare organizations are increasingly piloting weapons screening programs (WSPs) like metal detectors (MDs) to combat rising hospital workplace violence (WPV). This study identifies, analyzes, and concisely reports how the extant body of literature supports the ability of WSPs' to reduce absolute rates of hospital WPV according to public health principles.

Methods: We searched six online databases from July 2023 to December 2024 for full-length papers and abstracts of original research regarding WSPs at public entrances to US hospitals.

Distinct distributed brain networks dissociate self-generated mental states.

Unlabelled: Human cognition relies on two modes: a perceptually-coupled mode where mental states are driven by sensory input and a perceptually-decoupled mode featuring self-generated mental content. Past work suggests that imagined states are supported by the reinstatement of activity in sensory cortex, but transmodal systems within the canonical default network are also implicated in mind-wandering, recollection, and imagining the future. We identified brain systems supporting self-generated states using precision fMRI.

Cedars-Sinai: Addressing Workforce Risks Through a New School.

Located in Los Angeles, a diverse and expensive city of 3.8 million residents, Cedars-Sinai Health System seeks to hire and retain a qualified workforce that reflects its patient population. Research shows that concordance of a person's ethnicity with their clinical care team improves outcomes and reduces health disparities.

Settlement and Metamorphosis of the Ribbed Mussel, , in Response to Environmental Cues.

AbstractRibbed mussels are typically found in salt marshes and can form dense aggregations along low marsh shorelines and tidal creeks. The presence of ribbed mussels within marshes is well documented, and many studies have examined their importance in these ecosystems. However, it is not known whether mussels settle preferentially in habitat and what factors influence observed aggregations of mussels.