Effectiveness of telehealth versus in-person care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.

In this systematic review, we compared the effectiveness of telehealth with in-person care during the pandemic using PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from March 2020 to April 2023. We included English-language, U.S.

Working Framework for Appropriate Use of Virtual Care in Primary Care.

Background: Given the absence of guidelines for use of virtual visits for primary care delivery, a framework is needed to inform the most appropriate use of virtual visits.

Methods: We conducted in-depth, structured interviews of 18 patients, primary care clinicians, and other select informants. They were asked to discuss optimal, acceptable, and suboptimal uses of telemedicine for delivering care relative to in-person care delivery.

Telemedicine in Primary Care: Qualitative Work Towards a Framework for Appropriate Use.

Introduction: Telemedicine has been implemented in many health systems by necessity, yet evidence is sparse about its appropriate use for the delivery of primary care. We sought to understand what clinicians and patients consider to be appropriate use of telemedicine in primary care to inform future development of a framework that should be valuable to diverse stakeholders.

Methods: We conducted in-depth, structured interviews of patients, clinicians who deliver primary care, and other select informants.

Formative Research to Create a Farm-to-School Program for High School Students in a Lower Income, Diverse, Urban Community.

Background: Using Social Cognitive Theory as a framework, we examined opportunities for promoting local produce consumption among high school students in a lower-income, ethnically diverse, urban community.

Methods: Six focus groups (N = 53) were conducted with students. Using Atlas.

Agricultural Experiences Are Positively Associated With High School Students' Fruit and Vegetable Perceptions and Consumption.

Objective: To examine the relationship between high school students' agricultural experiences and their (1) attitudes about consuming local fruits and vegetables, (2) willingness to try new fruits and vegetables, and (3) fruit and vegetable consumption.

Design: Cross-sectional survey research.

Setting: Public high schools in a lower-income, diverse, urban, northeastern community.

Unmet needs for home and community-based services among frail older Americans and their caregivers.

Objective: This study examined unmet needs for home- and community-based services (HCBS) among frail older Americans.

Method: Using population-based sample from the National Long-Term Care Survey, a hierarchical logistic regression analysis was conducted to examine the predictors of unmet needs for seven types of HCBS.

Results: Lack of awareness, reluctance, unavailability, and affordability of services were the main reasons for unmet needs for HCBS.

Deaf college students' comprehension of relational language in arithmetic compare problems.

In this study of deaf college students' performance solving compare word problems, relational statements were either consistent or inconsistent with the arithmetic operation required for the solutions. The results support the consistency hypothesis Lewis and Mayer (1987) proposed based on research with hearing students. That is, deaf students were more likely to miscomprehend a relational statement and commit a reversal error when the required arithmetic operation was inconsistent with the statement's relational term (e.

Comparing deaf and hearing college students' mental arithmetic calculations under two interference conditions.

Deaf and hearing college students' mean reaction times (RTs) were compared on a mental calculation task in which they had to verify the accuracy of solutions to addition and multiplication problems. The deaf students were divided into higher and lower readers. Higher deaf readers and hearing students had similar RTs and accuracy on addition problems; their RTs were greater in the voicing interference mode than in the manual tapping interference mode.

A "dock, lock, and latch" structural model for a staphylococcal adhesin binding to fibrinogen.

Gram-positive pathogens such as staphylococci contain multiple cell wall-anchored proteins that serve as an interface between the microbe and its environment. Some of these proteins act as adhesins and mediate bacterial attachment to host tissues. SdrG is a cell wall-anchored adhesin from Staphylococcus epidermidis that binds to the Bbeta chain of human fibrinogen (Fg) and is necessary and sufficient for bacterial attachment to Fg-coated biomaterials.

The serine-aspartate repeat (Sdr) protein family in Staphylococcus epidermidis.

Staphylococcus epidermidis can express three different cell-surface-associated proteins, designated SdrF, SdrG and SdrH, that contain serine-aspartate dipeptide repeats. Proteins SdrF and SdrG are similar in sequence and structural organization to the Sdr proteins of Staphylococcus aureus and comprise unique 625- and 548-residue A regions at their N termini, respectively, followed by 110-119-residue B-repeat regions and SD-repeat regions. The C termini contain LPXTG motifs and hydrophobic amino acid segments characteristic of surface proteins covalently anchored to peptidoglycan.