Starting an Emergency Radiology Division: Scheduling and Staffing, Compensation, and Equity and Parity.

Establishing an emergency radiology division in a practice that has long-standing patterns of operational routines comes with both challenges and opportunities. In this article, considerations around scheduling and staffing, compensation, and equity and parity are provided with supporting literature references. Furthermore, a panel of experts having established, grown and managed emergency radiology divisions in North America and Europe share their experiences through a question and answer format.

Treatment of Psoriasis in Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis: An Updated Literature Review Informing the 2021 GRAPPA Treatment Recommendations.

Objective: Our aim was to summarize and evaluate the current quality of evidence regarding the efficacy of therapies for cutaneous psoriasis (PsO) in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA).

Methods: A literature search of MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Library databases, and conference abstracts was conducted to identify interventional randomized controlled trials in patients with PsA between February 2013 and December 2021. Studies were included if PsO outcomes included achieving at least 75% improvement in the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index and the blinded comparison period was ≥ 10 weeks.

Estimating Public Health Workforce Efforts Toward Foundational Public Health Services.

Context: The Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS) include a core set of activities that every health department should be able to provide in order to ensure that each resident has access to foundational services that protect and preserve health. Estimates of the public health workforce necessary to provide the FPHS are needed.

Objective: This study assessed the potential use of an FPHS calculator to assess health department workforce needs.

Public Health Graduates and Employment in Governmental Public Health: Factors That Facilitate and Deter Working in This Setting.

Objectives: Previous surveys of public health graduates examine where they work; however, little is known about public health graduates' employment decisions or the factors that facilitate interest or deter interest in working in governmental public health settings. The purpose of the current pilot study was to build on the information previously collected in graduate surveys by expanding questions to undergraduates and asking about decisions and factors that influence choices of employment.

Methods: A pilot survey of graduates of public health programs was conducted.

The Relationship Between Health Department Accreditation and Workforce Satisfaction, Retention, and Training Needs.

Background: To improve quality and consistency of health departments, a voluntary accreditation process was developed by the Public Health Accreditation Board. Understanding accreditation's role as a mediator in workforce training needs, satisfaction, and awareness is important for continued improvement for governmental public health.

Objective: To compare differences in training needs, satisfaction/intent to leave, and awareness of public health concepts for state and local health department staff with regard to their agency's accreditation status.

Perceptions of Public Health 3.0: Concordance Between Public Health Agency Leaders and Employees.

Context And Background: The newest era of public health, deemed "Public Health 3.0," supports cross-sector collaborations to address social determinants of health. These activities often require collaborations with nontraditional public health entities.

The New Classes of Synthetic Illicit Drugs Can Significantly Harm the Brain: A Neuro Imaging Perspective with Full Review of MRI Findings.

Synthetic drugs contain substances that are pharmacologically similar to those found in traditional illicit drugs. Some of the most commonly abused synthetic drugs include synthetic marijuana, bath salts, ecstasy, N-bomb, methamphetamine and anabolic steroids. Many of them share the same chemical properties and physiologic responses with the drugs they mimic and may exaggerate the pathologic response in the brain leading to addiction.

Prognostic Significance of the Standardized Uptake Value of Pretherapeutic 18F-Labeled 2-Fluoro-2-Deoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Patients With Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer.

Objectives: To determine the prognostic significance of the pretreatment and posttreatment maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) of F-labeled 2-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography imaging in patients with stage IB2-IVA cervical cancer.

Methods: This was a retrospective review of cervical cancer patients with International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stages IB2-IVA, from March 2008 to April 2014. All patients had pretreatment and posttreatment PET imaging and received primary whole pelvic radiation therapy with concurrent radiosensitizing chemotherapy, followed by intracavitary brachytherapy.

Prospective Assessment of Correlation between US Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse and MR Elastography in a Pediatric Population: Dispersion of US Shear-Wave Speed Measurement Matters.

Purpose To evaluate the correlation between ultrasonographic (US) point shear-wave elastography (SWE) and magnetic resonance (MR) elastography liver shear-wave speed (SWS) measurements in a pediatric population and to determine if US data dispersion affects this relationship. Materials and Methods Institutional review board approval was obtained for this HIPAA-compliant investigation; informed consent and patient assent (as indicated) were obtained. Patients (age range, 0-21 years) undergoing clinical liver MR elastography between July 2014 and November 2015 were prospectively enrolled.

Sports neurology topics in neurologic practice: A survey of AAN members.

We sought to assess neurologists' interest in sports neurology and learn about their experience in treating sports-related neurologic conditions. A survey was sent to a random sample of American Academy of Neurology members. A majority of members (77%) see at least some patients with sports-related neurologic issues.