You & Me: Test and Treat study protocol for promoting COVID-19 test and treatment access to underserved populations.

Background: Infections and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionately affected underserved populations. A community-engaged approach that supports decision making around safe COVID-19 practices is needed to promote equitable access to testing and treatment. You & Me: Test and Treat (YMTT) will evaluate a systematic and scalable community-engaged protocol that provides rapid access to COVID-19 at-home tests, education, guidance on next steps, and information on local resources to facilitate treatment in underserved populations.

Public health news frames in North Carolina newspaper coverage of the 100% Tobacco-Free Schools campaign? Sometimes.

Objective: News organizations are an important and influential part of the social environment. They identify certain issues by the extent and nature of their coverage. To help explain what public health policy messages may have influenced school policy decisions, this content analysis provides an examination of newspaper coverage of North Carolinas 100% tobacco-free schools campaign.

Assessing the need to update prevention guidelines: a comparison of two methods.

Background: An important concern for developers of clinical practice guidelines is how best to determine when guidelines require updating to ensure they remain current and evidence based. Because of the high costs associated with updating guidelines, recent attention has focused on approaches that can reliably assess the extent of updating required. Recently, Shekelle and colleagues proposed a model of limited literature searches with modest expert involvement as a way to reduce the cost and time requirements for assessing whether a guideline needs updating.

Exercise tolerance testing to screen for coronary heart disease: a systematic review for the technical support for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Background: Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Exercise tolerance testing has been proposed as a means of better identifying asymptomatic patients at high risk for coronary heart disease events.

Purpose: To review the evidence on the use of exercise tolerance testing to screen adults with no history of cardiovascular disease for coronary heart disease.

Pharmacologic treatment of bronchiolitis in infants and children: a systematic review.

Background: Bronchiolitis is the most common lower respiratory tract infection in infants. Up to 3% of all children in their first year of life are hospitalized with bronchiolitis. Bronchodilators and corticosteroids are commonly used treatments, but little consensus exists about optimal management strategies.

Diagnosis and testing in bronchiolitis: a systematic review.

Background: The diagnosis of bronchiolitis is based on typical history and results of a physical examination. The indications for and utility of diagnostic and supportive laboratory testing (eg, chest x-ray films, complete blood cell counts, and respiratory syncytial virus testing) are unclear.

Objectives: To review systematically the data on diagnostic and supportive testing in the management of bronchiolitis and to assess the utility of such testing.

Screening and interventions for obesity in adults: summary of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Background: Obesity poses a considerable and growing health burden. This review examines evidence for screening and treating obesity in adults.

Data Sources: MEDLINE and Cochrane Library (January 1994 through February 2003).

Counseling to promote a healthy diet in adults: a summary of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of counseling to promote a healthy diet among patients in primary care settings.

Design And Data Sources: We conducted a MEDLINE search from 1966 to December 2001.

Study Selection: We included randomized controlled trials of at least 3 months' duration with measures of dietary behavior that were conducted in patient populations similar to those found in primary care practices.