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Severity of Inpatient Hospitalizations Among Undocumented Immigrants and Medi-Cal Patients in a Los Angeles, California, Hospital: 2019.
Am J Public Health
November 2021
Annie Ro is with the Department of Health, Society, and Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. At the time the study was conducted, Helen W. Yang was a chief resident in Internal Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. Senxi Du is a medical student at the Keck School of Medicine of Medicine. Courtney L. Hanlon is with the Los Angeles County and USC Medical Center, Los Angeles. Andrew Shane Young is with the Division of Geriatric, Hospital, Palliative, and General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine.
To compare the severity of inpatient hospitalizations between undocumented immigrants and Medi-Cal patients in a large safety-net hospital in Los Angeles, California. We conducted a retrospective analysis of all 2019 inpatient stays at a Los Angeles hospital (n = 22 480), including patients of all races/ethnicities. We examined 3 measures by using insurance status to approximate immigration status: illness severity, length of hospital stay, and repeat hospitalizations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnimal Welfare Policy: Implementation in the Context of Wildlife Research--Policy Review and Discussion of Fundamental Issues.
ILAR J
December 2016
Ellen Paul, JD, MS, is Executive Director of the Ornithological Council. Robert S. Sikes, PhD, is Professor of Biology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Chair of the Animal Care and Use Committee, and President-elect of the American Society of Mammalogists. Steven J. Beaupre, PhD, is Professor and Chair in the Department of Biology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Past President of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. John C. Wingfield, PhD is Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior at the University of California, Davis, and Past Director of the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems of the BIO division of the National Science Foundation.
The use of vertebrate animals in research and education in the United States is subject to a number of regulations, policies, and guidelines under the immediate oversight of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUCs), which are charged with ensuring the ethical and appropriate use of the animal subjects. In almost all instances, this regulatory and oversight landscape of animal use has been developed around domesticated animals in biomedical research environments. When the research activities involve wild species, especially in their natural habitat rather than a laboratory, oversight personnel and investigators alike struggle with determining what constitutes ethical and appropriate activities.
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