Occupational infections in brickmakers: a neglected public health concern.

Recent studies highlight brickmaking's environmental and biological impacts, ranging from environmental pollution to toxic exposures in brickmakers and residents of neighboring areas. However, the risk of infections associated with brickmaking is widely understudied. In low- and middle-income countries worldwide, the brickmaking industry often belongs to the informal labor sector.

Outcomes of Covid-19 among patients with ischemic heart disease: A propensity matched analysis.

Background: Prior research has linked cardiovascular diseases with higher COVID-19 mortality and worse hospital outcomes, particularly in severe heart failure. Large population-based data regarding the impact of pre-existing ischemic heart disease (IHD) on COVID-19 outcomes is not well established.

Objective: To study the impact of COVID-19 infection on IHD hospital mortality and other outcomes.

Inpatient outcomes of NSTEMI among patients with immune thrombocytopenia: a propensity matched national study.

Patients with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) admitted for non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) present a unique therapeutic challenge due to the increased risk of bleeding with antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapies. There is limited evidence studying hospital mortality and complications in this population. The study included a patient cohort from the 2018-2021 National Inpatient Sample database.

Inpatient mortality and outcomes of COVID-19 among patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy: A propensity matched analysis.

Background: Patients with chronic medical conditions, particularly cardiovascular diseases, are at a greater risk of adverse outcomes due to COVID-19. The effect of COVID-19 on patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) is not known well.

Objectives: To study the impact of COVID-19 infection on NICM hospital mortality and other outcomes.

The impact of smoking on third-degree atrioventricular block outcomes: A propensity-matched analysis.

Background: Third-degree atrioventricular (AV) blocks are rare but cause significant symptoms and require immediate intervention. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is felt to be the most common etiology. Although smoking is a prominent risk factor for CAD, there is a paucity of data assessing the direct effect of smoking on third-degree AV block.

Analysis of the Weekend Effect on Mortality, Diagnostic Coronary Angiography, and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Acute Myocardial Infarction Across Rural US Hospitals.

Background: Rural hospitals face several unique challenges in delivering healthcare to an underserved population. Achieving time-sensitive goals in a resource-scarce facility is often a difficult task without the right team at hand. Resources are further depleted on the weekends, exposing understaffed hospitals to poorer outcomes.

Exploring the Impact of Reflecting upon Pharmacy Experts' Written Career Guidance on Student Professional Identity Formation.

To explore the impact of reading and critically reflecting upon professional development guidance provided by pharmacy experts upon student professional identity formation (PIF). : Fifteen second professional year student pharmacists completed an elective course assignment to read 20 published personal letters from Letters to a Young Pharmacist, in which pharmacy experts offer career and life guidance to novice or student pharmacists. From those, each student selected four letters and for each composed a 500 to 600-word critical reflection describing the impact of the letter, yielding 60 reflections for thematic analysis.

Evaluation of Rural vs Urban Trauma Patients Served by 9-1-1 Emergency Medical Services.

Importance: Despite a large rural US population, there are potential differences between rural and urban regions in the processes and outcomes following trauma.

Objectives: To describe and evaluate rural vs urban processes of care, injury severity, and mortality among injured patients served by 9-1-1 emergency medical services (EMS).

Design, Setting, And Participants: This was a preplanned secondary analysis of a prospective cohort enrolled from January 1 through December 31, 2011, and followed up through hospitalization.

Prospective Validation of the National Field Triage Guidelines for Identifying Seriously Injured Persons.

Background: The national field trauma triage guidelines have been widely implemented in US trauma systems, but never prospectively validated. We sought to prospectively validate the guidelines, as applied by out-of-hospital providers, for identifying high-risk trauma patients.

Study Design: This was an out-of-hospital prospective cohort study from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011 with 44 Emergency Medical Services agencies in 7 counties in 2 states.