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JAMA Health Forum
January 2025
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
Importance: Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) experienced high mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading them to adopt preventive measures to counteract viral spread. A critical appraisal of these measures is essential to support SNFs in managing future infectious disease outbreaks.
Objective: To perform a scoping review of data and evidence on the use and effectiveness of preventive measures implemented from 2020 to 2024 to prevent COVID-19 infection in SNFs in the US.
JAMA Netw Open
January 2025
Faculty of Medicine, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen.
Importance: Rapid digitalization of health care and a dearth of digital health education for medical students and junior physicians worldwide means there is an imperative for more training in this dynamic and evolving field.
Objective: To develop an evidence-informed, consensus-guided, adaptable digital health competencies framework for the design and development of digital health curricula in medical institutions globally.
Evidence Review: A core group was assembled to oversee the development of the Digital Health Competencies in Medical Education (DECODE) framework.
Curr Obes Rep
January 2025
Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology, Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, University of Leuven, Herestraat 49 - Box 7003, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
Introduction: Long-term data indicate that patients who underwent metabolic bariatric surgery have a higher risk of developing nutritional complications. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to monitor their nutritional status.
Methods: A scoping literature search was conducted in MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and TRIP database to identify clinical practice guidelines for nutritional screening before and after metabolic bariatric surgery from learned societies.
Prev Sci
January 2025
Faculty of Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Podiatry, Department of Nursing, Universidad de Sevilla, Avenzoar Street, 6, 41009, Seville, Spain.
Adolescence is a critical period for developing risk behaviors such as substance use, which can impact health in adulthood. Culturally adapted evidence-based programs (EBPs) are promising for prevention. This review explores the processes for culturally adapting EBPs targeting alcohol, tobacco, or cannabis use, and/or anxiety or depression in adolescents.
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February 2025
Orange Health Service, Western NSW Local Health District, Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia.
Objective: Although guidelines recommend angiography and coronary intervention occur within 24 h of thrombolysis when percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is not available within 120 min, this target is difficult to achieve in rural and remote areas of New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
Methods: In this is secondary analysis we examine the impact of extending the existing 90-min road transport limit for patients in rural and remote areas of western NSW who have received initial treatment for ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
Results: The patient cohort consisted of 86 patients who were transported by road ambulance with transport times more than 90 min.
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