Interventional pain physician beliefs on climate change: A Spine Intervention Society (SIS) survey.

Summary Of Background Data: Although evaluated within other specialties, physicians' beliefs towards climate change and human health have not been described within Interventional Pain Medicine (IPM). Understanding belief systems is essential for developing solutions to build sustainable practices.

Objectives: Assess beliefs toward climate change within the field of IPM.

The carbon footprint of epidural steroid injections: A pilot study.

Background: Epidural steroid injections are common procedures in physical medicine and rehabilitation practice. However, their environmental impact has not been characterized.

Objective: The primary aim is to estimate and compare the carbon footprint of two standard injection kits used to perform epidural steroid injections at a single academic institution.

Examining the Associations of and Interactions Between Intrapersonal and Perceived Environmental Factors With Objectively Assessed Physical Activity Among Rural Midwestern Adults, USA.

Purpose: We investigated associations of intrapersonal and environmental factors with objectively assessed weekly moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) minutes, and their interactions in rural adults.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: 14 rural towns participating in a multilevel intervention to promote physical activity.

Understanding contributors to racial and ethnic inequities in COVID-19 incidence and mortality rates.

Background: Racial inequities in Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) have been reported over the course of the pandemic, with Black, Hispanic/Latinx, and Native American individuals suffering higher case rates and more fatalities than their White counterparts.

Methods: We used a unique statewide dataset of confirmed COVID-19 cases across Missouri, linked with historical statewide hospital data. We examined differences by race and ethnicity in raw population-based case and mortality rates.

Helpline Calls Associated With Preventable Emergency Department Utilization.

Introduction: Unmet social needs are linked with greater healthcare utilization, but most studies lack timely and granular data on these needs. The 2-1-1 helpline is a telephone helpline focused on social needs. The objective of the study is to determine whether the number of 2-1-1 requests per 1,000 people is associated with preventable emergency department visits and compare the strength of the association with another commonly used predictor, Area Deprivation Index.

Expressed and unexpressed social needs in low-income adults in the U.S.

Many healthcare organisations are now routinely screening patients for social needs such as food and housing. It is largely unknown whether the needs they identify would have been expressed by the patient in the absence of screening. To better understand expressed and unexpressed social needs, we administered a social needs screener to 1,397 low-income adults who called a 2-1-1 helpline in Missouri seeking assistance with social needs between June 2017 and October 2019.

Older Adults' Reasons for Participating in an eHealth Prevention Trial: A Cross-Country, Mixed-Methods Comparison.

Objectives: To explore older adults' reasons for participating in a multinational eHealth prevention trial, and compare motivations between countries.

Design: Cross-sectional mixed methods research using quantitative and qualitative approaches (the ACCEPT-HATICE study).

Setting And Participants: Substudy conducted during the recruitment phase of an 18-month RCT testing the efficacy of an eHealth intervention for self-management of risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cognitive decline in older adults in Finland, France, and the Netherlands.

Characteristics of The Cancer Genome Atlas cases relative to U.S. general population cancer cases.

Background: Despite anecdotal reports of differences in clinical and demographic characteristics of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) relative to general population cancer cases, differences have not been systematically evaluated.

Methods: Data from 11,160 cases with 33 cancer types were ascertained from TCGA data portal. Corresponding data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) 18 and North American Association of Central Cancer Registries databases were obtained.

Water metal contaminants in a potentially mineral-deficient population of Haiti.

This study aimed to characterize metal contaminant concentrations and assess temporal and spatial variability in the main drinking water sources of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. Water sources from five communities were sampled in two seasons, June (2014) and October (2014), and analysed for a suite of metals. A geographic information system was used to examine the spatial distribution of sampling points.

A plan for implementing mother-baby nursing.

This article describes the plan and implementation for converting from traditional obstetric nursing to a mother-baby care delivery system in a level 2 hospital in upstate New York. It identifies the pitfalls, problems, and process to follow for the successful implementation of mother-baby nursing.

[Amyloidosis as cause of severe abdominal symptoms in a young Somali immigrant?].

Extensive deposition of amyloid was detected in the digestive tract of a Somali woman aged 20 yr with abdominal pain, diarrhoea and cachexia. Immunohistochemical characterisation showed that the amyloid protein involved was of the AA type. Elevated levels were also found for serum amyloid A (SAA), an acute-phase protein which is the precursor of AA amyloid.

Fatal respiratory failure caused by pulmonary infiltration by pseudo-Gaucher cells.

Pseudo-Gaucher cells are reticuloendothelial cells that are found in several diseases. We report a case of pulmonary tuberculosis in which extensive pulmonary involvement with these cells resulted in fatal respiratory failure.

[Mycobacterium avium disease in AIDS patients; diagnosis and therapy].

In eight (25%) of 32 consecutive AIDS patients between 1986 and 1989, Mycobacterium avium infection was diagnosed: in seven disseminated, in one as a local lymph node process. Six patients were treated as consistently as possible with a combination of ethambutol, rifabutine, clofazimine and protionamide (or cycloserine) in relatively large dosages. Median survival of treated patients was 15.