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BJOG
January 2025
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of modifying current antenatal screening by adding first trimester structural anomaly screening to standard of care second trimester anomaly screening.
Design: Health economic decision model.
Setting: National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales.
Front Public Health
January 2025
Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
To examine the relationship between socioeconomic deprivation and complex needs, defined as mental and physical comorbidities, we conducted a cross-sectional retrospective cohort analysis of adult Utah Medicaid beneficiaries. Our analysis included Medicaid beneficiaries with geocoded addresses aged ≥18 years in Utah ( = 157,739). We geocoded beneficiary addresses and assigned them to census block groups.
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January 2025
MedTech Epidemiology and Real-World Data Science, Johnson & Johnson, Raynham, Massachusetts & New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Purpose: The objective of this observational, real-world study was to describe reoperation, revision, index healthcare utilization and hospital costs among patients treated with PEEK (polyetheretherketone) or 3D-printed-titanium cages during lumbar/lumbosacral posterior fusion procedures, either TLIF (transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion) or PLIF (posterior lumbar interbody fusion). Statistical comparisons were not conducted.
Methods: This was a descriptive, retrospective, observational study.
Open Forum Infect Dis
January 2025
Department of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Background: Blood culture contaminants can lead to inappropriate antibiotic use, prolonged length of stay, and additional hospital costs. Several devices have been developed to reduce the risk of blood culture contamination by diverting a portion of the initial blood sample from the blood culture bottle. We assessed the effectiveness of 1 blood diversion device (BDD) in a prospective trial performed at the 2 separate emergency departments (EDs) of an academic medical center.
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January 2025
Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health Research Team, Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, 3114, Bangladesh.
Background: Antibiotic exposure for fever/cough has been rising alarmingly, especially among children under five in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This excessive use could result in higher healthcare costs, and antibiotic resistance is an alarming trend in developing countries. As a result, it's crucial to look at the variables that affect antibiotic exposure and highlight the subgroups among whom antibiotic abuse is the most prevalent.
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