Food Access Support Technology (FAST): a Centralized City-Wide Platform for Rapid Response to Food Insecurity.

Background: Food access for patients remains a critical need for health systems to address given varying resource availability and inefficient coordination among health and food services.

Aim: Develop and evaluate the Food Access Support Technology (FAST), a centralized digital platform for food access that pairs health systems with food and delivery community-based organizations (CBOs).

Setting And Participants: Two health systems, 12 food partners, and 2 delivery partners in Philadelphia, PA.

Assessing Baseline Knowledge and Usage Patterns of Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity Affirming Electronic Health Record Modules Within a Urology Division at a Single Tertiary Care Institution.

Objective: To evaluate how sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI)-affirming electronic health record (EHR) modules (which enable seamless location and documentation of patient SOGI data) are being used by providers/staff within a urology practice.

Materials And Methods: All 120 patient-facing providers/staff at a tertiary urology program were offered a 39-question Qualtrics-based survey, which assessed respondents' cultural competency, baseline knowledge of SOGI EHR modules, and SOGI module usage patterns. Cultural competency was assessed using the LGBT-Development of Clinical Skills Scale (LGBT-DOCCS).

Understanding Contributors to Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Department Throughput Times: a Sequential Mixed Methods Analysis.

Background: Ensuring equitable care remains a critical issue for healthcare systems. Nationwide evidence highlights the persistence of healthcare disparities and the need for research-informed approaches for reducing them at the local level.

Objective: To characterize key contributors in racial/ethnic disparities in emergency department (ED) throughput times.

Can I Influence You? Development of a Scale to Measure Perceived Persuasiveness and Two Studies Showing the Use of the Scale.

In this paper, we develop and validate a scale to measure the perceived persuasiveness of messages to be used in digital behavior interventions. A literature review is conducted to inspire the initial scale items. The scale is developed using Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis on the data from a study with 249 ratings of healthy eating messages.

HIV/AIDS-related stigma, immediate families, and proactive coping processes among a clinical sample of people living with HIV/AIDS in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) engage in proactive coping behaviors to minimize the risk of interpersonal stigma. This study explores proactive coping processes in navigating HIV/AIDS-related stigma within immediate families. Data for this study come from 19 one-on-one, qualitative interviews with a diverse, clinical sample of PLWHA in Philadelphia, PA.

Biochemical, Micronutrient and Physicochemical Properties of the Dried Red Seaweeds and .

The present study sought to evaluate the nutritional composition and physicochemical properties of two dried commercially interesting edible red seaweeds, and . Proximate composition of the dried seaweeds revealed a higher content in carbohydrates (8.30 g/100 g), total crude protein (22.

Evaluation of changes in prescription medication use after a residential treatment programme for borderline personality disorder.

Objective: Residential patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder were evaluated to determine whether borderline personality disorder-focused psychotherapy reduced prescribing, personality disorder and co-morbid symptom severity.

Method: Psychotropic prescriptions were measured at admission, discharge and 1 year later in 74 female participants with one or more personality disorder diagnosis and co-morbid mood disorders. Changes in pharmacotherapy were examined in the context of improvements in borderline personality disorder and/or co-morbid disorder symptom severity.

Congenital Retroperitoneal Teratoma in Neurofibromatosis Type 1.

Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is caused by mutations in the tumor suppressor gene NF1. The increased tumor risk in affected individuals is well established, caused by somatic biallelic inactivation of NF1 due to loss of heterozygosity. Pediatric teratoma has not been reported in individuals with NF1 previously.

HNF1B and PAX2 mutations are a common cause of renal hypodysplasia in the CKiD cohort.

Malformations of the kidney and lower urinary tract are the most frequent cause of end-stage renal disease in children. Mutations in HNF1Β and PAX2 commonly cause syndromic urinary tract malformation. We searched for mutations in HNF1Β and PAX2 in North American children with renal aplasia and hypodysplasia (RHD) enrolled in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children Cohort Study (CKiD).

Urinary transforming growth factor beta-1 as a marker of renal dysfunction in sickle cell disease.

Renal dysfunction affects 5-18% of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). To date, no studies have described urinary levels of transforming growth factor β-1 (TGF-β1), a marker of fibrosis, and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), a marker of acute/chronic kidney disease, as biomarkers in identifying patients at risk of developing renal disease in SCD. We hypothesized that SCD subjects will have increased urinary excretion of TGF-β1 and NGAL compared with healthy controls (CTR).

It's not over till the last glomerulus forms.

The Brenner hypothesis postulated that low birth weight and decreased nephron number at birth are linked to chronic kidney disease and systemic hypertension in adulthood. To date, little is known about the effect of extrauterine growth retardation (EUGR) on adult kidney disease. Bacchetta et al.

Quality of life assessment in people living with psychosis.

Background: The value of measuring health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among people with persisting psychotic disorders is contentious, despite the call for it in treatment outcome and economic evaluation. Our aim was to investigate the validity of psychotic patients' self-report regarding their HRQoL, using the WHOQOL-Brèf, a generic measure, and the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL), a utility instrument.

Methods: Community-dwelling patients (N = 173) with a long-standing psychotic disorder who were attending an inner-city mental health service completed the WHOQOL and AQoL, and measures of their symptoms, disability and living conditions.