The Impact of Language on Hospital Outcomes for COVID-19 Patients: A Study of Non-English Speaking Hispanic Patients.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated health inequities, as demonstrated by the disproportionate rates of infection, hospitalization, and death in marginalized racial and ethnic communities. Although non-English speaking (NES) patients have substantially higher rates of COVID-19 positivity than other groups, research has not yet examined primary language, as determined by the use of interpreter services, and hospital outcomes for patients with COVID-19.

Methods: Data were collected from 1,770 patients with COVID-19 admitted to an urban academic health medical center in the Chicago, Illinois area from March 2020 to April 2021.

Spanish-Speaking Patients Have Limited Access Scheduling Outpatient Orthopaedic Appointments Compared With English-Speaking Patients Across the United States.

Purpose: To evaluate whether Spanish-speaking patients can obtain appointments to outpatient orthopaedic surgery clinics across the United States at a similar rate as English-speaking patients and to examine the language interpretation services available at those clinics.

Methods: Orthopaedic offices nationwide were called by a bilingual investigator to request an appointment with a pre-established script. The investigators called in English asking for an appointment for an English-speaking patient (English-English), called in English requesting an appointment for a Spanish-speaking patient (English-Spanish), and called in Spanish asking for an appointment for a Spanish-speaking patient (Spanish-Spanish) in a random order.

Obesity care strategies in primary care practices.

We evaluated pediatric obesity clinics for internal referrals developed at 5 primary care offices. Clinics developed site-specific strategies: 1 group approach and 4 clinics providing individualized care only. Clinicians reported patient/family motivation as an important referral consideration and compliance as the greatest challenge and perceive clinics to have provided some help.

Increasing trends in elderly persons' use of nonvitamin, nonmineral dietary supplements and concurrent use of medications.

Objective: Use of nonvitamin, nonmineral dietary supplements among an elderly cohort was surveyed to determine which were the most frequently used, and to report potential medication/supplement interactions observed.

Design: A retrospective review of the use of 22 supplements and prescription/over-the-counter medications was collected annually from 1994 to 1999.

Subjects/setting: Supplement and medication records for an average of 359 male (36%) and female (64%) participants aged 60 to 99 years were reviewed annually.

Changes in dietary intake after diagnosis of breast cancer.

Objective: To quantify change in intake of kilocalories, macronutrients, and fruit and vegetable servings after diagnosis of breast cancer, and to correlate these changes with subject characteristics and with self-reported global change in dietary patterns.

Design: Food frequency questionnaires were completed by women newly diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after diagnosis. They were asked to recall intake 1 year before diagnosis.

New Linear Coordination Polymers Based on Copper(I) and 4,7-Phenanthroline: Structure Dependence on Solvent and Counteranion.

Three new linear coordination polymers containing Cu(I) and 4,7-phenanthroline (phen) have been synthesized and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. [Cu(phen)(MeCN)(2)]PF(6) (3) and [Cu(phen)(MeCN)]BF(4) (4) are prepared from acetonitrile, and [Cu(phen)(BzCN)]BF(4) (5) is made from benzonitrile (MeCN = acetonitrile; BzCN = benzonitrile). All of the compounds have linear polymeric structures containing Cu(I) centers coordinated by two bridging 4,7-phenanthroline ligands, with additional coordinated solvent molecules completing the copper coordination sphere.