Objective: To provide an overview of the literature on the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on healthcare disparities in various groups, in relation to social determinants of health (SDOH) and longstanding social disparities.
Design: The Disaster Preparedness and Response Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) addressed the impact of health disparities in disaster planning and response. A workgroup composed of seven physicians with academic and deployment disaster medicine experience was formed.
Objective: To examine the rates as well as the interdependence of depressive symptoms and sleep problems in patients with cancer and their intimate partner family caregivers.
Method: Patients diagnosed with cancer (69.3 years old, 56.
Background:: Prospective data of sequencing PD-L1 inhibition after PD-1 inhibition is limited in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We report a phase II clinical trial of atezolizumab following PD-1 directed therapy (NCT03014648).
Methods:: Previously treated advanced NSCLC patients were enrolled in cohorts based on response to prior nivolumab or pembrolizumab therapy; progressive disease (Cohort 1); stable disease (Cohort 2), or partial or complete response (Cohort 3).