Articles: ninos.
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The emergency department (ED) offers an opportunity to initiate palliative care for older adults with serious, life-limiting illness. ⋯ This multicomponent intervention to initiate palliative care in the ED did not have an effect on hospital admission, subsequent health care use, or short-term mortality in older adults with serious, life-limiting illness.
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Accounting for approximately 1 in 4 community-dwelling adults in the United States (US), people with disabilities (PWD) experience significant disparities in health care quality, access, and outcomes. At the same time, US physicians have reported feeling unprepared to care for PWD and have revealed significant negative bias about this population. ⋯ Medical education may perpetuate negative bias about disability through a hidden curriculum. Insufficient support from institutional and licensing authorities has stymied efforts to expand and improve disability-related training such that disability is not included in existing curricula focused on mitigating health care disparities - despite known vulnerabilities for PWD. Without improvements to disability-related curricular content, physicians will remain ill-equipped to care for the nation's largest minority group.
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Pol. Arch. Med. Wewn. · Jan 2025
Ambient air pollution and risk of hospital admission due to acute and chronic coronary syndromes: a time-stratified case-crossover study in the 3 largest urban agglomerations in Poland.
Short-term exposure to air pollution may worsen the course of ischemic heart disease (IHD), causing acute and chronic coronary syndromes. ⋯ The exposure to PM10, PM2.5, and NO2 is associated with an increased short-term risk of hospital admission due to acute and chronic coronary syndromes.