Mayo Clinic proceedings
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Overcoming barriers to accessing health services is especially difficult in minority groups and rural populations. Nontraditional sites for delivering health care in the United States offer opportunities to reduce health disparities. Actually realizing these reductions, however, requires health systems to partner with trusted, convenient community services where people who experience health disparities spend substantial time - and, in turn, for those trusted service sites to seek partnerships with health systems. ⋯ Third, coordinated efforts must be made to create awareness among the population a program seeks to serve. Fourth, day-to-day operations may need to be conducted in novel ways, especially considering physical, technological, and other implementation challenges that most nontraditional sites would face. As such successes proliferate and garner publicity, community health partnerships will be formed in greater numbers of unexpected places, with an ever-growing potential to reduce health disparities.
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Dec 2023
Diet Quality and Incident Frailty in Adults 65 Years or Older: The Israeli Longitudinal Study on Aging.
To prospectively examine the association between diet quality and frailty incidence in the oldest-old age group. ⋯ In this cohort study of oldest-old participants, improved diet quality was inversely associated with frailty incidence in a dose-dependent manner.
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Dec 2023
Acute Adverse Events After Iodinated Contrast Agent Administration of 359,977 Injections: A Single-Center Retrospective Study.
To assess the effects of patient variables, examination variables, and seasonality on allergic-like and physiologic reactions to iodinated contrast material (ICM). ⋯ Non-White patients and patients administered iopromide had higher rates of acute reactions compared with White patients and patients administered iohexol. Younger patients (<50 years vs 51 to 60 years), female sex, history of ICM allergy or other allergies, ICM dose, and contrast-enhanced CT location and type also correlated with higher acute reaction rates.