J Minim Invasive Gynecol
September 2024
Study Objective: To assess the association between patient primary language and route of hysterectomy.
Design: A retrospective cohort study was conducted using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's State Inpatient Database (SID) and State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Database (SASD).
Setting: All inpatient and outpatient hysterectomies from the most recent year of available data (2020-2021) from the six states that record patient primary language in the SID and SASD (Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, and New Jersey) were queried.
Objective: The study purpose was to describe feasibility of implementation of the Reaching Out to Kids with Emotional Trauma (ROcKET) intervention. We hypothesised that the ROcKET Intervention would be feasible in a poor resource school.
Design: We performed a single-arm, single-centr feasibility study of an intervention pilot, based on the RE-AIM framework.
Use of race adjustment in estimating glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) has been challenged given concerns that it may negatively impact the clinical care of Black patients, as it results in Black patients being systematically assigned higher eGFR values than non-Black patients. We conducted a systematic review to assess how well eGFR, with and without race adjustment, estimates measured GFR (mGFR) in Black adults globally. A search across multiple databases for articles published from 1999 to May 2021 that compared eGFR to mGFR and reported outcomes by Black race was performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeople historically excluded from receiving medical care in the United States, in addition to being at greater risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection, have had slower vaccine uptake due to structural barriers to availability. We present one student-run free clinic's SARS-CoV-2 vaccination program from January 15 to August 1, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee. We tracked SARS-CoV-2 vaccine primary series completion among 273 free clinic patients with the help of medical student volunteers, who scheduled appointments and answered vaccine-related questions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExamination of screening guideline concordance can help clinics and institutions identify and understand disparities within their own practices. We conducted a study to examine whether screening completion rates within a student-run free clinic (SRFC) reflected, exacerbated, or narrowed population-level disparities in outcomes by race/ethnicity and primary language. We compared completion rates for cervical cancer (n = 114), diabetic retinopathy (n = 91), colorectal cancer (n = 114), and breast cancer (n = 63) by race/ethnicity (Black, n = 37; Hispanic, n = 133; white, n = 54; other, n = 29) and primary language (English, n = 106; Spanish, n = 136; other, n = 11) among patients at Shade tree clinic (STC), an SFRC in Nashville, TN.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) contribute to poor overall health among children with obesity. This study evaluated how one potential protective factor-family resilience-affects the association between ACEs and childhood obesity.
Methods: This analysis was a secondary analysis of the 2016-2018 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), a repeated cross-sectional survey based on parent report.
Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes
March 2019
Objective: Studies with authors trained in research methods are of higher quality than those without. We examined inclusion of authors with master's or doctoral degrees incorporating advanced research methods training on original research articles in high-impact journals, investigating differences between journals and by first-author sex.
Methods: Using all original research articles from 1 issue of (), (), (), and () every alternate month, February 1994 to October 2016, we assessed the prevalence of articles listing authors with master's/doctoral research degrees and its adjusted associations with time of publication, journal, and first-author sex via multivariable logistic regression models (accounting for number of authors, study type, specialty/topic, and continent and for interactions between journal and time of publication, study type, and continent).