Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion of Dermatology Journals and Their Editorial Board Members.

Dermatology as a whole suffers from minority underrepresentation. We conducted a search of the top 60 dermatology journals for mention of their approach to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within their publication through editorial board members or peer-review processes. Of those 60, only 5 had DEI statements or editorial board members dedicated to increasing DEI.

Dermatology Journals' Editorial Boards Require Improved Gender Equity: JMIR Dermatology's Future Directions.

Gender disparities exist across all facets of academic medicine including within the editorial boards of dermatology journals. Only 22% of these editorial boards comprised women, even though 51% of full-time, faculty dermatologists are female. When inviting academic dermatologists to our editorial board at JMIR Dermatology, we invited 50% women to represent the gender distribution of academic dermatologists; however, we have not sufficiently reached gender equity among accepted editorial board members.

Association of Driving Distance to Maternity Hospitals and Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes.

Objective: To assess whether there are associations between driving distance from the patient residence to the delivery hospital and adverse maternal and perinatal health outcomes.

Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study using 2011-2015 Pennsylvania birth records of live births at 20 weeks of gestation or more, excluding inpatient hospital transfers or implausible distances. The shortest driving distance from patient residence to the delivery hospital was calculated in ArcGIS and was evaluated in association with a composite of adverse maternal outcomes (blood transfusion, unplanned operation, ruptured uterus, unplanned hysterectomy, or intensive care unit admission) and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission.

Gestational Weight Gain and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Twin Pregnancies.

Objective: To evaluate the association between gestational weight gain in twin pregnancies and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) and large-for-gestational-age (LGA) birth, preterm birth before 32 weeks of gestation, cesarean delivery, and infant death within each prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) category.

Methods: Data in this population-based study came from Pennsylvania-linked infant birth and death records (2003-2013). We studied 54,836 twins born alive before 39 weeks of gestation.

A Needs Assessment of Family Physicians to Inform Development of Educational Resources on Antipsychotic Use in Dementia.

Objectives: Objectives of this study were to (1) assess the needs and preferred resources of Iowa physicians to inform the development of educational resources for best practice dementia care and (2) compare the responses of nursing home medical directors with nonmedical directors.

Methods: Of 498 physicians, 101 (20%) completed and returned the survey. Family physicians were obtained from a list of family physicians from the Iowa Board of Medical Examiners.