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Promoting improved utilization of laboratory testing through changes in an electronic medical record: experience at an academic medical center
This case study over time describes five years of experience with interventions to improve laboratory test utilization at an academic medical center. The high-frequency laboratory tests showing the biggest declines in order volume post intervention were serum albumin (36%) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (17%). Introduction of restrictions for 170 high-cost send-out tests resulted in a 23% decline in order volume. Targeted interventions reduced mis-orders involving several “look-alike” tests: 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D; manganese, magnesium; beta-2-glycoprotein, beta-2-microglobulin. Lastly, target...
Source: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making - February 22, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Matthew KrasowskiDeborah ChudzikAnna DolezalBryan SteussyMichael GaileyBenjamin KochSara KilbornBenjamin DarbroCarolyn RysgaardJulia Klesney-Tait Source Type: research

Lessons from Toxicology: Developing a 21st-Century Paradigm for Medical Research
Conclusions Our proposed new research paradigm, adapted from 21st-century toxicology, would involve the following aspects: Developing a big picture of human diseases, integrating extrinsic and intrinsic causes, and linking environmental sciences with medical research using systems biology. Introducing a disease AOP concept, analogous to toxicity AOPs, with the intention of providing a unified framework for describing relevant pathophysiology pathways and networks across multiple biological levels. Creating a strong focus on advanced human-specific research (in vitro, ex vivo, in vivo, and in silico) in place of empirical,...
Source: EHP Research - November 2, 2015 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Brief Communication November 2015 Source Type: research

Health screenings administered during the domestic medical examination of refugees and other eligible immigrants in nine US states, 2014 –2016: A cross-sectional analysis
ConclusionsIn this analysis, we observed high rates of screening coverage for tuberculosis, hepatitis B, and HIV during the domestic medical examination and lower screening coverage for mental health. This analysis provided evidence that the domestic medical examination is an opportunity to ensure newly arrived refugees and other eligible populations receive recommended health screenings and are connected to the US healthcare system. We also identified knowledge gaps on how screenings are conducted for some conditions, notably mental health, identifying directions for future research.
Source: PLoS Medicine - March 30, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Clelia Pezzi Source Type: research

Hepatitis B Virus Vaccination Coverage in Medical, Nursing, and Paramedical Students: A Cross-Sectional, Multi-Centered Study in Greece.
Abstract Students of health professions are at high risk of hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection during their clinical training. The aim of this cross-sectional, multi-centered study was to investigate the HBV vaccination coverage in Greek medical, nursing, and paramedical students, to look into their attitudes towards the importance of vaccines and to reveal reasons associated with not being vaccinated. A self-completed, anonymous questionnaire was distributed to 2119 students of health professions in Greece, during the academic year 2013-2014. The HBV vaccination coverage of students was high (83%), being higher am...
Source: Physica Medica - March 23, 2016 Category: Physics Authors: Papagiannis D, Tsimtsiou Z, Chatzichristodoulou I, Adamopoulou M, Kallistratos I, Pournaras S, Arvanitidou M, Rachiotis G Tags: Int J Environ Res Public Health Source Type: research

Health of Special Immigrant Visa holders from Iraq and Afghanistan after arrival into the United States using Domestic Medical Examination data, 2014 –2016: A cross-sectional analysis
ConclusionIn this analysis, we observed that 14% of SIV adults had LTBI, 27% of SIVH had at least one intestinal parasite, and about half of SIV children had EBLL. Most adults were susceptible to HBV. In general, prevalence of infection was higher for most conditions among Afghan SIVH compared to Iraqi SIVH. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Guidelines for the US Domestic Medical Examination for Newly Arriving Refugees can assist state public health departments and clinicians in the care of SIVH during the domestic medical examination. Future analyses can explore other aspects of health among resettled SI...
Source: PLoS Medicine - March 30, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Gayathri S. Kumar Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 13, Pages 323: Hepatitis B Virus Vaccination Coverage in Medical, Nursing, and Paramedical Students: A Cross-Sectional, Multi-Centered Study in Greece
Students of health professions are at high risk of hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection during their clinical training. The aim of this cross-sectional, multi-centered study was to investigate the HBV vaccination coverage in Greek medical, nursing, and paramedical students, to look into their attitudes towards the importance of vaccines and to reveal reasons associated with not being vaccinated. A self-completed, anonymous questionnaire was distributed to 2119 students of health professions in Greece, during the academic year 2013–2014. The HBV vaccination coverage of students was high (83%), being higher among medical stud...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - March 15, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Dimitrios PapagiannisZoi TsimtsiouIoanna ChatzichristodoulouMaria AdamopoulouIlias KallistratosSpyros PournarasMalamatenia ArvanitidouGeorge Rachiotis Tags: Article Source Type: research

Scientists are not divided over device that 'remotely detects hepatitis C' | Suzi Gage
Without any peer-reviewed evidence or an adequate explanation of how it works, scientists are rightly sceptical about a device that can diagnose hepatitis C remotelyTo claim that "scientists are divided" over a new device that can "remotely detect hepatitis C" is akin to claiming that scientists are divided over homeopathy. Yet an article that was tagged as "science" on the Guardian website (though it was posted by Egypt correspondent Patrick Kingsley) did just this. The original headline (which has now been changed) was describing C-Fast: a device, supposedly based on bomb detection technology, that its developer claims w...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 27, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Suzi Gage Tags: Blogposts Infectious diseases Health guardian.co.uk Medical research Society Science and scepticism Hepatitis C Source Type: news

Medical students’ awareness of and compliance with the hepatitis B vaccine in a tertiary care academic hospital: An epidemiological study
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) poses a health risk to healthcare workers who are in close proximity to infected individuals. Medical students are a particularly high-risk group due to the lack of an obligatory vaccination program and a post-vaccination screening program to determine immunity status, which results in a lack of awareness of and compliance with the HBV vaccine.
Source: Journal of Infection and Public Health - July 13, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Firas A. Ghomraoui, Faisal A. Alfaqeeh, Abdulrahman S. Algadheeb, Abdullah S. Al-alsheikh, Waleed K. Al-Hamoudi, Khalid A. Alswat Source Type: research

Cross-sectional study of hepatitis B antibody status in health care workers immunized as children at an academic medical center in Wisconsin.
Abstract Individuals who received the hepatitis B vaccine series as young children are entering the healthcare workforce. Our study measured the persistence of antibody to the hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBs) at time of employment. Among 986 individuals born in 1991 or more recently with documentation of completion of the hepatitis B vaccine series, 51% had anti-HBs < 10mIU/ml. Of these 507 healthcare workers, 446 (88%) received documented fourth dose of hepatitis B vaccine followed by another anti-HBs ≥ 28 days post vaccination; 11% (50/446 or 5% of the total population) did not mount an anamnesti...
Source: Vaccine - January 15, 2020 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Ritscher AM, LeClair-Netzel M, Friedlander NJ, Howard Stewart DN, Wagner M, Kalscheur N, Caldera F, Hayney MS Tags: Vaccine Source Type: research

133 Organizations Ask Congress to Close the Innovation Deficit
Dear Member of Congress: The 133 undersigned national business, higher education, scientific, patient, and other organizations write to strongly urge you to pass an omnibus FY2015 appropriations bill this year that includes increased investments in scientific research and higher education needed to help close our nation's innovation deficit. Members of the Senate and House from both political parties have highlighted the need to address the innovation deficit. Congress has already taken some preliminary steps in this direction. In most instances, individual appropriations bills considered by the House and Senate Appropri...
Source: ActionBioscience - November 12, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Julie Palakovich Carr Source Type: news

Neurological Involvement in Primary Systemic Vasculitis
Conclusion Neurological involvement is a common complication of PSV (Table 1), and neurologists play an important role in the identification and diagnosis of PSV patients with otherwise unexplained neurological symptoms as their chief complaint. This article summarizes the neurological manifestations of PSV and hopes to improve neuroscientists' understanding of this broad range of diseases. TABLE 1 Table 1. Common CNS and PNS involvements of primary systemic vasculitis. Author Contributions SZ conceived the article and wrote the manuscript. DY and GT reviewed and edited the manuscript. All authors ...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 25, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Lipidomic Analysis Reveals Serum Alteration of Plasmalogens in Patients Infected With ZIKA Virus
Discussion Our strategy in this study was to compare the serum lipid profile between ZIKV patients and symptomatic controls that presented virus-like symptoms as fever, arthralgia, headache, exanthema, myalgia and pruritus. Retro-orbital pain and fever were the only clinical symptoms that significantly distinguished ZIKV and control groups (Table 1). A recent study by Melo et al. (2017) showed that the differences in metabolic and lipid profiles in serum of ZIKV patients are so pronounced that they can be differentiated from a control group composed of both healthy and symptomatic subjects. Thus, by using symptomatic pati...
Source: Frontiers in Microbiology - April 11, 2019 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research

Health Care Reform And Women: A Comparison Of The ACA And The AHCA
By Susan Blumenthal, M.D. and Alexandrea Adams The recent commemoration of National Women’s Health Week provided an important time to mark the progress that has been made in advancing women’s health over the past two decades and to highlight what more needs to be done to achieve women’s health equity in America. Historically, women have experienced discrimination in health care despite making 80 percent of health care decisions for their families, using more medical services than men, and suffering greater disability from chronic disease. Before the mid 1990’s, women were often excluded as subjects ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news