Medical Student Mentors for Young Adults with Sickle Cell Disease: Impact on Mentors by Adrienne S. Viola, Mariah Jacqueline Scott, Hanin Rashid, Richard Drachtman, Amanda Kaveney, Ashwin Sridharan, Beth Savage, Cristine Delnevo, Jerlym S. Porter, Katie A. Devine

“…Students reported increased knowledge about managing a chronic illness and transition and improved understanding about the patient's experience navigating the healthcare system. Students expressed high satisfaction. …”
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Making Complex Technologies Accessible Through Simple Controllability: Initial Results of a Feasibility Study by Pascal Müller, Hari Krishna Reddy Gali, Subashkumar Rajanayagam, Stefan Twieg, Patrick Jahn, Sebastian Hofstetter

“…Digital assistive technologies (DATs) present a significant opportunity to address the challenges of the healthcare system. However, they have not been designed for this purpose and are still in the process of further development. …”
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Area deprivation index predicts annual chronic kidney disease screening and chronic kidney disease development among patients with newly diagnosed hypertension and type 2 diabetes... by Rasha Khatib, Todd Williamson, Rakesh Singh, Mary Ingle, Yuxian Du, Vesta Valuckaite, Sheldon Kong, Sarang Baman

“…Results highlight the importance of systematic health record data collection in large healthcare systems to evaluate social factors with health outcomes.…”
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Examining the impact of psychosocial safety climate on working conditions, well-being and safety of healthcare providers: a scoping review by Mustapha Amoadu, Dorcas Frempomaa Agyare, Patience Fakornam Doe, Susanna Aba Abraham

“…Abstract Background In contemporary healthcare systems, the well-being and safety of healthcare providers are pivotal for sustaining a resilient healthcare system. …”
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A Markov decision optimization of medical service resources for two-class patient queues in emergency departments via particle swarm optimization algorithm by Chia-Hung Wang, Rong Tian, Kun Hu, Yu-Tin Chen, Tien-Hsiung Ku

“…Abstract In the modern healthcare system, the rational allocation of emergency department (ED) resources is crucial for enhancing emergency response efficiency, ensuring patient safety, and improving the quality of medical services. …”
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Cayley–Purser secured communication and jackknife correlative classification for COVID patient data analysis by Ramesh Sekaran, Ashok Kumar Munnangi, Manikandan Ramachandran, Mohammad Khishe

“…Abstract Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a group of medical devices that connect the healthcare information technology to minimize the redundant hospital visit and healthcare system troubles. IoMT connect the patients to the doctor and transmit the medical data over the network. …”
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Examining sufficiency and equity in the geographic distribution of physicians in Japan: a longitudinal study by Yuichi Imanaka, Susumu Kunisawa, Koji Hara, Tetsuya Otsubo

“…The results indicate that failing to adjust healthcare demand will produce misleading results, and that there is a need for major reform of Japan's healthcare system to improve physician distribution.…”
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EMPIRICAL VERIFICATION OF THE STRUCTURAL MODEL RELATING EQUILIBRIUM VALUES OF COSTS, QUALITY, AND COMFORT OF MEDICAL SERVICES WITH INDIVIDUALIZED ELASTICITIES OF DEMAND by Oleg Klymenyuk, Oleksandr Ocheredko, Volodymyr Klymenyuk, Anastasiia Rudenko

“…The healthcare system in Ukraine is moving to flexible mechanisms to support the quality and comfort of medical services, in particular through the introduction of co-payments. …”
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Knowledge, attitude and practice of health care workers on solid medical waste management in two urban hospitals of Bangladesh: a mixed-method study by Md Tauhidul Islam, Md Abdur Rafi, Mohammad Jahid Hasan

“…Abstract Background Proper management of solid medical waste is a crucial component of an efficient healthcare system. The objective of the present study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practices of medical waste management among the healthcare workers of two selected hospitals of Dhaka city of Bangladesh. …”
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Assessing the Fiscal Burden of Overweight and Obesity in Japan through Application of a Public Economic Framework by Ataru Igarashi, Cillian Copeland, Nikos Kotsopoulos, Riku Ota, Silvia Capucci, Daisuke Adachi

“…**Conclusions:** While the health implications of OAO are well documented, this fiscal analysis demonstrates the significant economic burden of OAO both to the healthcare system and broader government accounts. Policies aimed at reducing population-level obesity have the potential to benefit government accounts through increasing employment and reducing public spending, which can offset the cost of implementing these policies.…”
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Community paramedicine—cost–benefit analysis and safety with paramedical emergency services in rural areas: scoping review protocol by Hege Selnes Haugdahl, Marianne Lysne, Odd Eirik Elden, Oddvar Uleberg

“…Introduction Community paramedicine models have been developed around the world in response to demographic changes, healthcare system needs and reforms. The traditional role of the paramedic has primarily been to provide emergency medical response and transportation of patients to nearby medical facilities. …”
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Dissemination of Evidence-Based Recommendations for Sickle Cell Disease to Primary Care and Emergency Department Providers in North Carolina: A Cost Benefit Analysis by Paula Tanabe, Audrey L. Blewer, Emily Bonnabeau, Hayden B. Bosworth, Denise H. Clayton, Nancy Crego, Marian F. Earls, Kern Eason, Grayson Forlines, Gary Rains, Matthew Young, Nirmish Shah

“…The multiple complications seen in SCD contribute to significant morbidity and premature mortality, as well as substantial costs to the healthcare system. **Objectives:** SCD is a complex chronic disease resulting in the need for primary, specialty and emergency care. …”
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Female sex is associated with short-term mortality in coronary artery bypass grafting patients: A propensity-matched analysis by Mostafa Abbas, Thomas Morland, Rohit Sharma, Jeffrey Shuhaiber, H. Lester Kirchner, Yasser El-Manzalawy

“…Methods: We created a retrospective cohort of adult patients underwent isolated CABG surgery between 2006 and 2020 in a large rural healthcare system. Patients were grouped by sex and a 1:1 nearest neighbor propensity score matching method was performed to reduce the bias due to potential confounding. …”
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Effect of cognitive behavioral intervention on physical symptoms, B-type natriuretic peptide, red cell distribution width, C-reactive protein in elderly heart failure patients by Xiaoyan Li, Meixia Zhang, Zepeng Ren, Junfen Deng

“…Conclusion Cognitive behavioral intervention for elderly patients with heart failure can alleviate their physical symptoms, promote the improvement of vascular function indicators BNP and RDW, and reduce inflammatory factor CRP in the body, reducing the burden on the healthcare system.…”
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Strategies Australian junior doctors use to maintain their mental, physical and social well-being: a qualitative study by Melanie Hobi, Sonya Yegorova-Lee, Christopher Chun-lin Chan, Hailin Zhao, Stephen Jiang, Dan Tran, Gayathri Nair, Erika Borkoles

“…High workload, unpredictable routines, lack of familiarity with the healthcare system and ongoing stigma surrounding mental health were seen as barriers to well-being. …”
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Temporal changes in hospital readmissions for postpartum hypertension in the US, 2010 to 2019; a serial cross-sectional analysis. by Ashwini Deshpande, Deepti Agnihotri, Alexa I K Campbell, Jerome J Federspiel, Evan R Myers, Osondu Ogbuoji

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>The increasing postpartum hypertension readmission burden suggests rising future health risks among mothers and a growing cost burden to the U.S. healthcare system. The higher rate of increase in postpartum hypertension readmissions among people without a history of hypertension calls for blood pressure checking in the postpartum period for all patients regardless of risk status.…”
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VA physicians intent to leave and correlations to drivers of burnout: a cross-sectional study by Robert C. Oh, David C. Mohr, Tamara M. Schult

“…Abstract Background Physician well-being and workforce retention within the healthcare system is of critical importance. Understanding physicians’ intent to leave the organization will inform efforts on optimizing the physician workforce. …”
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Features of Medical Care Providing to Patients with Digestive Diseases in the Krasnodar Region during the COVID-19 Pandemic by N. V. Korochanskaya, V. M. Durleshter, S. A. Gabriel, O. V. Kovalevskaya, S. N. Serikova, M. A. Basenko

“…The decrease in the growth of mortality rate, including from DD, in the second year of the pandemic is associated with the completed healthcare systems reformatting. The increase in hospital mortality in patients with gastric and duodenal ulcers, ulcerative colitis, and diverticular disease had a significant impact on mortality rates from DD. …”
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Development and validation of the respite care model for adults with cancer in Iran: study protocol for a multimethod research project by Vahid Pakpour, Fatemeh Sadeghi-Ghyassi, Azad Rahmani, Nasrin Kheibar, Maryam Rassouli

“…However, implementing these models poses challenges due to notable cultural, social and healthcare system variances between Western and non-Western regions like Iran and other Middle Eastern countries. …”
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Subacute Toxicity Effects of the Aqueous Shoot Extract of Yushania alpina (K. Schum.) W.C.Lin in Sprague Dawley Rats: An Appraisal of Its Safety in Ethnomedicinal Usage by Joseph Ngugi Wanjiru, Timothy Elias Maitho, James Mucunu Mbaria, Gervason Apiri Moriasi

“…However, the pharmacologic efficacy and safety of many plants currently used in traditional medicine have not been explored empirically, which raises serious public health concerns, derailing further research and their integration into the conventional healthcare system. Despite the longstanding ethnomedicinal usage of Yushania alpina shoot extract to treat inflammation, microbial infections, and diarrhoea, among other diseases, there is insufficient scientific data to appraise its toxicity profile and safety. …”
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