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J Elder Abuse Negl
September 2021
Quantworks, Inc, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Carrboro, North Carolina, USA.
The Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) Network (1) conducted a scoping review of the current literature on the identification of and interventions to address elder abuse among patients receiving care in emergency departments and (2) used this review to prioritize research questions for knowledge development. Two questions guided the scoping review: What is the effect of universal emergency department screening compared to targeted screening or usual practice on cases of elder abuse identified, safety outcomes, and health care utilization?; and What is the safety, health, legal, and psychosocial impact of emergency department-based interventions vs. usual care for patients experiencing elder abuse? We searched five article databases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pediatr Rehabil Med
December 2020
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge to healthcare systems around the world. Within pediatric rehabilitation medicine, management of intrathecal baclofen has been particularly challenging. This editorial reviews how programs in the US and Canada coped with the quickly changing healthcare environment and how we can learn from this pandemic to be prepared for future crises.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Invest
August 2020
Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Haploinsufficiency of factors governing genome stability underlies hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. One significant pathway that is disabled as a result is homologous recombination repair (HRR). With the aim of identifying new candidate genes, we examined early-onset breast cancer patients negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants.
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