Journal ArticleJ Appl Gerontol · January 2026
Distress behaviors are common in residential care settings and contribute to staff burnout and poor quality of life for older adults. While nonpharmacologic interventions reduce distress behaviors, implementation in routine care remains challenging. Our st ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Netw Open · April 1, 2025
IMPORTANCE: Women veterans are the fastest-growing veteran subpopulation in the US. Women veterans often experience military service-related health issues in addition to conditions common to all women. Because women veterans are more likely to receive care ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Intern Med · February 2025
BACKGROUND: Postdischarge contacts (PDCs) after hospitalization are common practice, but their effectiveness in reducing use of acute care after discharge remains unclear. PURPOSE: To assess the effects of PDC on 30-day emergency department (ED) visits, 30 ...
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Journal ArticleCHEST Crit Care · December 2024
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia requires considerable healthcare resources. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: Examine if a single dose of infliximab or abatacept, in addition to remdesivir and steroids, decreased resource utilization among part ...
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Journal ArticleClin Infect Dis · June 14, 2024
BACKGROUND: Persistent mortality in adults hospitalized due to acute COVID-19 justifies pursuit of disease mechanisms and potential therapies. The aim was to evaluate which virus and host response factors were associated with mortality risk among participa ...
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Journal ArticleClin Gerontol · 2024
OBJECTIVES: This review examines health care team-focused interventions on managing persistent or recurrent distress behaviors among older adults in long-term residential or inpatient health care settings. METHODS: We searched interventions addressing heal ...
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Journal ArticleOpen Forum Infectious Diseases · November 27, 2023
AbstractBackgroundA growing body of evidence suggests potential sex differences in the clinical outcomes of COVID-19. In this study we ...
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Journal ArticleCirculation · November 7, 2023
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Post-acute sequela of COVID-19 (PASC) is a complication of SARS-CoV-2 causing persistent symptoms and impaired functional status. We studied the effect of P2Y12 inhibitors on health-relate ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA · July 25, 2023
IMPORTANCE: Immune dysregulation contributes to poorer outcomes in COVID-19. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether abatacept, cenicriviroc, or infliximab provides benefit when added to standard care for COVID-19 pneumonia. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Ra ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Intern Med · April 2023
BACKGROUND: Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 have an increased incidence of thromboembolism. The role of extended thromboprophylaxis after hospital discharge is unclear. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether anticoagulation is superior to placebo in reducing ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2023
OBJECTIVE: Pandemic-associated stress may have exacerbated preexisting mental health and substance use disorders (MH/SUD) and caused new MH/SUD diagnoses which would be expected to lead to an increase in visits to emergency departments and hospital admissi ...
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Journal ArticlemedRxiv · September 26, 2022
BACKGROUND: We investigated whether abatacept, a selective costimulation modulator, provides additional benefit when added to standard-of-care for patients hospitalized with Covid-19. METHODS: We conducted a master protocol to investigate immunomodulators ...
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Journal ArticleLancet Infect Dis · May 2022
BACKGROUND: We aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of two neutralising monoclonal antibody therapies (sotrovimab [Vir Biotechnology and GlaxoSmithKline] and BRII-196 plus BRII-198 [Brii Biosciences]) for adults admitted to hospital for COVID-19 (hereaf ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Intern Med · February 2022
BACKGROUND: In a randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial, bamlanivimab, a SARS-CoV-2-neutralizing monoclonal antibody, given in combination with remdesivir, did not improve outcomes among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 based on an early futilit ...
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Journal ArticleN Engl J Med · March 11, 2021
BACKGROUND: LY-CoV555, a neutralizing monoclonal antibody, has been associated with a decrease in viral load and the frequency of hospitalizations or emergency department visits among outpatients with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Data are needed on ...
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Journal ArticleMil Med · January 2014
Prostate cancer remains the second most commonly diagnosed cancer among the male population worldwide. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to prostate cancer and its aggressiveness. Herein, we initiated a retrospective study to evaluate vitamin D status a ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol · September 15, 2013
Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) is a transcription factor that directs many of the cellular responses to hypoxia. In these studies, we have used a mouse model containing a cardiac-specific, oxygen-stabilized, doxycycline (Dox)-off regulated HIF-1α tra ...
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