Home health and adult day services providers are natural collaborators, as both institutions seek to allow chronically ill patients to receive care at home. Well-formed partnerships between these two types of providers can result in better patient care that is more economical under the prospective payment system, and open up joint marketing opportunities. The authors review the benefits of home health-adult day services collaboration, as well as some considerations for home health agencies entering into an agreement with an adult day services provider.
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Eur J Med Res
January 2025
Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Branch, No. 5, Fu-Shing St., GuiShan, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Background: This study compared the ventilatory variables and computed tomography (CT) features of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) versus those of patients with pulmonary non-COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) during the early phase of ARDS.
Methods: This prospective, observational cohort study of ARDS patients in Taiwan was performed between February 2017 and June 2018 as well as between October 2020 and January 2024. Analysis was performed on clinical characteristics, including consecutive ventilatory variables during the first week after ARDS diagnosis.
J Gen Intern Med
January 2025
Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA.
Background: "Before medically advised" (BMA) discharges are rising among hospitalized people with opioid use disorder (OUD) and associated with worse outcomes. However, little is known about BMA discharge among the growing share of U.S.
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January 2025
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Institute for Health Equity Research, New York, USA.
Background: Over 60 million patients in the USA have limited English proficiency (LEP) and experience barriers in care. Still, there exists no standardized method of monitoring the utilization of language interpreting services (LIS).
Objective: To introduce a methodological approach to systematically monitor utilization of LIS for LEP patients.
Waste Manag
January 2025
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Kyonggi University, Suwon, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
This study identifies and analyzes issues within the management system of the waste home appliances free pickup service and seeks to enhance the system by using an object detection model. To overcome the limitations of manually inspecting approximately 5,000 collections per day, the YOLOv8 model was implemented. Photos for proof of collection, which were difficult to verify visually, were excluded from the image data.
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January 2025
Tibet University, Medical College, Lhasa, China. Electronic address:
Objective: High altitude hypobaric hypoxia can induce hearing impairment and hearing acclimatization, but few studies have been performed to decipher the potential transition between the two states. To decipher transition-related circular RNAs (circRNAs)-microRNAs (miRNAs)-messenger RNA (mRNAs) regulatory network.
Methods: Wistar rats were airlifted from plain to high altitude and maintained for 30 days and 60 days.
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