Study protocol for Video Images about Decisions to Improve Ethical Outcomes with Palliative Care Educators (VIDEO-PCE): a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of older... by Joshua R Lakin, Na Wang, Howard J Cabral, Michael K Paasche-Orlow, Charlotta Lindvall, Angelo Volandes, Aretha Delight Davis, Michael R Winter, Edward T Moseley, Lori Henault, Sophia N Zupanc, Sophiya Das, Kate Sciacca, Edith A Burns, Maria T Carney, Jennifer Itty, Santiago Lopez, Kaitlin Emmert, Narda J Martin, Sherene Lambert, Jennifer Polo, Shreya Sanghani, Julianne N Dugas, Michele Gomez, Shira Gabry-Kalikow, Alexandra Dobie, Meredith Amshoff, Traci Cucinotta, Milton Joel, Lisa B Caruso, Ana Maria Ramirez, Kathleen Salerno, Qausarat Ogunneye

“…We estimate that over 9000 patients will be included.Ethics and dissemination The Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Boston Medical Center will serve as the single IRB of record for all regulatory and ethical aspects of this trial. …”
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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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Following Up on Clinical Recommendations in Transitions from Hospital to Nursing Home by Lisa B. Caruso, Soe Soe Thwin, Gary H. Brandeis

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The Impact of Race in Male Breast Cancer Treatment and Outcome in the United States: A Population-Based Analysis of 4,279 Patients by Jacob Y. Shin, Lisa A. Kachnic, Ariel E. Hirsch

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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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Developing a comprehensive inventory to define harm reduction housing by Sofia Zaragoza, Joseph Silcox, Sabrina Rapisarda, Charlie Summers, Patricia Case, Clara To, Avik Chatterjee, Alexander Y. Walley, Miriam Komaromy, Traci C Green

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Racial discrimination among women seeking breast cancer care by Lauren J. Oshry, Ruth I. Lederman, Haley Gagnon, Tsion Fikre, Daniel A. Gundersen, Anna C. Revette, Ashley Odai-Afotey, Olga Kantor, Dawn L. Hershman, Katherine D. Crew, Nancy L. Keating, Rachel A. Freedman, Naomi Y. Ko

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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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Diagnostic, Treatment, and System Challenges in the Management of Recurrent Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome on a General Medical Service by Karan Verma, Vivek Jayadeva, Raymond Serrano, Karthik Sivashanker

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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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Social-structural barriers to primary care among sex workers: findings from a community-based cohort in Vancouver, Canada (2014–2021) by Miriam T. H. Harris, Kate Shannon, Andrea Krüsi, Haoxuan Zhou, Shira M. Goldenberg

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A Case of Chronic Ethylene Glycol Intoxication Presenting without Classic Metabolic Derangements by Stephanie M. Toth-Manikowski, Hanni Menn-Josephy, Jasvinder Bhatia

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Associations of early life per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure with body mass index and risk of overweight or obesity at age 2–18 years: Mixture analysis in the pro... by Zeyu Li, Guoying Wang, Joseph M. Braun, Xiumei Hong, Giehae Choi, Shawn P. O’Leary, Chang Ho Yu, Colleen Pearson, William G. Adams, Zhihua (Tina) Fan, Jessie P. Buckley, Xiaobin Wang

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BCL-2 inhibitors in hematological malignancies: biomarkers that predict response and management strategies by Mariam Markouli, Maria N. Pagoni, Panagiotis Diamantopoulos

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A Lifelong Smoker with Hypopituitarism: Rethinking the Hypothesis of a Tumor in the Hypophysis by Nestoras Mathioudakis, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Roberto Salvatori, Shehzad Basaria

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Case Report of HIV and Neurosyphilis Coinfection in a Recent Migrant: Old Diseases in New Faces by Alexa Van Besien, Ian Paolo Mauricio, Ronald Belfort, Joseph Lykins

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mHealth Incentivized Adherence Plus Patient Navigation (MIAPP): protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial to improve linkage and retention on buprenorphine for hospitalized... by Elenore P. Bhatraju, Devin N. Kennedy, Alexander J. Gojic, Matthew Iles-Shih, Joseph O. Merrill, Jeffrey H. Samet, Kevin A. Hallgren, Judith I. Tsui

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Long-Term Safety and Effectiveness of Dimethyl Fumarate in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Treated in Routine Medical Practice: Final Analysis of the ESTEEM Study by Krupa Shah Pandey, Kathryn Giles, Konstantin Balashov, Richard Macdonell, Jörg Windsheimer, Mikel Martinez, Ivan Božin, Stephanie Raynaud, Matthew Scaramozza, Oksana Mokliatchouk, Zhaonan Sun, Nicholas Belviso, Yayoi Sato, Xiaochen Lin, Annette Okai

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β-Caryophyllene and Statins in Bone Fracture Healing – A Narrative Review by Marom H, Khan MA, Darvish N, Tornetta III P, Khoury A, Weil YA, Skelley NW, Allison DC, Meiron S, Ehrmann Barr T

“…Hilik Marom,1,* Mansoor A Khan,1,* Nissim Darvish,2,* Paul Tornetta III,3,* Amal Khoury,4,* Yoram A Weil,5,* Nathan WM Skelley,6,* Daniel C Allison,7,* Sahar Meiron,2,* Tami Ehrmann Barr1,* 1R&D, OrthoTreat Ltd, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel; 2Corporate Office, OrthoTreat Ltd, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel; 3Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Orthopaedic Trauma, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; 4Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic, and Reconstructive Trauma Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; 5Department of Orthopaedics, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel; 6Department of Orthopaedics, Sanford Health, Sioux Falls, SD, USA; 7Department of Orthopaedic Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Tami Ehrmann Barr, Email drbarr@orthotreat.ioAbstract: Bone fractures are a leading cause of morbidity and healthcare expenditure globally. …”
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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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