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J Surg Res
January 2025
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Northwell Health, Cohen Children's Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York.
Introduction: We sought to understand the impact of locum tenens surgeons on pediatric surgical care delivery.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of Children's Hospital Association pediatric surgical practices. Anonymous electronic surveys were used to investigate locum tenens utilization, primary reason for use, limitations on clinical activities, and variations in practice standards or quality.
Front Sleep
September 2024
San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Veteran access to sleep medicine is of paramount importance to the Veterans Health Administration (VA). To increase access, VA has created community referral policies and programs, as well as telehealth programs. In 2017, the Office of Rural Health (ORH) funded a TeleSleep initiative focused on reaching rural Veterans with unmet sleep needs.
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January 2025
Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, United States. Electronic address:
J Rural Med
October 2024
Division of Community and Family Medicine, Center for Community Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Japan.
Objectives: Core hospitals play an important role in rural healthcare, and the dispatch of replacement doctors (DRD) from core hospitals to rural clinics is included in medical care plans at the prefectural level in Japan.
Material And Methods: The conditions of DRD implementation in core hospitals (n=345) were observed using national data from 2022.
Results: DRD was present in 101 (29.
Epilepsy Behav
September 2024
Section of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Electronic address:
Though unified by challenges in the treatment of status epilepticus (SE), rural Canada is simultaneously massive and diverse, spanning the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans. According to the national statistical agency, the most rural jurisdiction in Canada is the Arctic territory of Nunavut. In particular, the Kivalliq region of Nunavut represents a unique epidemiologic SE space because any treatment beyond typical first-line lorazepam and second-line phenytoin by a non-neurologist locum tenens requires airborne evacuation over a thousand kilometers away to a single hospital with a single electroencephalographic (EEG) laboratory.
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