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J Med Internet Res
January 2025
NORC at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
Background: Poor health outcomes are well documented among patients with a non-English language preference (NELP). The use of interpreters can improve the quality of care for patients with NELP. Despite a growing and unmet need for interpretation services in the US health care system, rates of interpreter use in the care setting are consistently low.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerfusion
January 2025
Department of Cardiovascular Perfusion, College of Health Sciences, Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA.
: Medical mission trips address the global burden of cardiac disease, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where limited access to cardiac surgery exacerbates challenges faced by affected individuals. However, a lack of literature exists on the experiences of perfusionists involved in these missions, despite their crucial role in delivering cardiac surgery services. Therefore, the purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate the experiences of cardiovascular perfusionists involved in philanthropic cardiac surgery in low-income countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransplant Direct
February 2025
Department of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA.
Background: As the burden of chronic liver disease and the demand for liver transplants (LT) grows, understanding the interplay between access to care and patient outcomes is increasingly important. In this study, we explored patient characteristics and transplant outcomes in patients undergoing LT evaluations, with a focus on identifying risk factors for expedited LT evaluation.
Methods: This single-center retrospective cohort study included patients who underwent LT evaluation for deceased donor LT between October 2017 and July 2021.
Front Allergy
January 2025
Department of Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Food allergy poses substantial social, economic, and quality of life burdens which are even heavier for families that are struggling with food insecurity. In the United States (US), food insecurity disproportionately affects vulnerable and historically marginalized communities, such as Latino/a/x and Black households. Targeting these disparities via our recent Food Equality Initiative (FEI) research intervention was challenging due to the barriers faced by the target underserved populations, which included poor digital literacy, language barriers, and limited access to necessary resources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArthroplast Today
February 2025
Levitetz Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA.
Background: For reimbursement purposes, current coding fails to reflect the true complexity and resource utilization of hospital encounters for surgeries performed to treat periprosthetic total hip arthroplasty (THA) infection. Therefore, when compared to aseptic revisions, we sought to determine (1) Is length of stay (LOS) longer for septic surgeries? (2) Are septic procedures more expensive? and (3) How do different surgical procedures for infection compare with aseptic revisions on hospital LOS and charges?
Methods: Retrospective chart review of 596 unilateral THA reoperations (473 patients) performed at a single institution (January 2015 to November 2020). Demographics, professional (ie, physicians), and technical (ie, room, implants) hospital charges per case were compared between 6 different surgery types: (1) aseptic revision (control; n = 364); (2) debridement, antibiotics, and implant retention (n = 11); (3) explantation (n = 145); (4) spacer exchange (n = 7); (5) 2-stage reimplantation (n = 59); and (6) 1-stage reimplantation (n = 10).
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