Undocumented immigrants and advanced heart failure therapies by Matthew Kogan, Sarah L. Kimball, Katherine Purrington, Jennifer Cedor, Omar K. Siddiqi, MD

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Impact of Nutritional Support for Tuberculosis on Intermediate and Terminal Undernutrition and Treatment Outcomes (INSTITUT) study: a protocol for a quasi-experimental study to ass... by Dissou Affolabi, Chelsie Cintron, Madolyn Dauphinais, Attannon Arnauld Fiogbe, Mohammed Fall Dogo, Safiou Ate, Christine Adjonou, Kokou Agossou, Susie Jiaxing Pan, Marius Esse, Benjamin Ade, Komi Séraphin Adjoh, Pranay Sinha, Kobto G Koura

“…We hypothesise that participants receiving nutritional support will experience fewer unfavourable outcomes, faster sputum clearance, improved weight gain and fewer persistent respiratory symptoms.Ethics and dissemination This study has received approval from the Boston University Medical Campus and Boston Medical Center Institutional Review Board (H-43096). …”
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Supporting primary care clinicians in caring for patients with alcohol use disorder: study protocol for Records for Alcohol Care Enhancement (RACE), a factorial four-arm randomized... by Kara M. Magane, Richard Saitz, Sarah Fielman, Marc R. LaRochelle, Christopher W. Shanahan, Christine A. Pace, Michael LaValley, Kaley Penington, Skylar Karzhevsky, Emily Hurstak

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Accounting for racial bias and social determinants of health in a model of hypertension control by Yang Hu, Nicholas Cordella, Rebecca G. Mishuris, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

“…Methods In this retrospective cohort study, records from 1/1/2012 to 1/1/2020 at the Boston Medical Center were used. Patients with either a hypertension diagnosis or related records (≥ 130 mmHg systolic or ≥ 90 mmHg diastolic, n = 164,041) were selected. …”
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Malnutrition risk, weight loss, and subsequent survival in patients listed for heart transplantation by Tae Kyung Yoo, MD, MS, Satoshi Miyashita, MD, Ariella Stein, MSCIS-HI, Michael Wu, BS, MPH, Lauren Parsly Read-Button, MPH, RD, LDN, Masashi Kawabori, MD, Greg S. Couper, MD, Edward Saltzman, MD, Amanda R. Vest, MBBS, MPH

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