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BMC Musculoskelet Disord
January 2025
Pain Medicine Section, Anesthesiology Dept, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Background: Multidisciplinary programs are the first recommendation for non-specific chronic low-back pain, but implementing this type of program is complicated to get up and running. The primary aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and appropriateness of the PAINDOC multidisciplinary program for subjects with chronic low-back pain. The secondary objectives were to evaluate the decrease in pain intensity, pain-related disability and pain catastrophizing, as well as the improvement in quality of life with this program.
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January 2025
Department of Botany, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan.
The present study was designed to highlight the ameliorative role of iron nanoparticles (FeNPs) against drought stress in spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) plants. A pot experiment was performed in two-way completely randomize design with three replicates.
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January 2025
Michael E. Chernew, Harvard University.
A core problem with the current risk-adjustment system in Medicare Advantage and accountable care organization (ACO) programs-the Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) model-is that the inputs (coded diagnoses) can be influenced for gain by risk-bearing plans or providers. Using existing survey data on health status (which provide less manipulable inputs), we found that the use of a hybrid risk score drawing from survey data and a scaled-back set of HCCs would, in addition to mitigating coding incentives, modestly lessen risk-selection incentives, strengthen payment incentives to deliver efficient care, allocate payment across ACOs more efficiently according to markers of population health that are not as affected by practice patterns or coding efforts, and redistribute payment in a manner that supports equity goals. Although sampling error and survey nonresponse present challenges, analyses suggest that these should not be prohibitive.
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August 2024
Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
Background: Influenza healthcare encounters in adults associated with specific sources of PM is an area of active research.
Objective: Following 2017 legislation requiring reductions in emissions from light-duty vehicles, we hypothesized a reduced rate of influenza healthcare encounters would be associated with concentrations of PM from traffic sources in the early implementation period of this regulation (2017-2019).
Methods: We used the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) to study adult patients hospitalized (N = 5328) or treated in the emergency department (N = 18,247) for influenza in New York State.
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