Articles: health.
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U.S. News and World Report 2022-2023 hospital rankings were used to investigate the leadership practices and organizational structure of ranked healthcare institutions. ⋯ Physician leadership, organizational structure, size of the institution's flagship hospital, and tax status are significantly associated with an organization's US News and World Report rank.
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The World Health Organization added methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA) to the list of "priority pathogens," given its capacity to cause life-threatening infections. Clindamycin is a preferred treatment for non-complicated S aureus-induced skin and soft tissue infections. Its good tissue penetration and oral absorption make it suitable for outpatient therapy. However, the emergence of inducible and constitutive (MLS B ) resistance led to clinical challenges, primarily due to the potential oversight of inducible resistance in routine antimicrobial sensitivity testing. ⋯ To prevent clindamycin treatment failures, the D-test must be implemented to detect ICR in MRSA isolate. Neglecting simple and cost-effective tests may lead to inaccurate susceptibility reporting, jeopardizing treatment success.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Efficacy of a Therapeutic Pelvic Yoga Program Versus a Physical Conditioning Program on Urinary Incontinence in Women : A Randomized Trial.
Pelvic floor yoga has been recommended as a complementary treatment strategy for urinary incontinence (UI) in women, but evidence of its efficacy is lacking. ⋯ National Institutes of Health.
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Emerging consensus in the medical and public health spheres encourages removing race and ethnicity from algorithms used in clinical decision-making. Although clinical algorithms remain appealing given their promise to lighten the cognitive load of medical practice and save time for providers, they risk exacerbating existing health disparities. ⋯ By contrast, incisive public health analysis coupled with a race-conscious perspective recognizes that race serves as a marker of countless other dynamic variables and that structural racism, rather than race, compromises the health of racially oppressed individuals. This perspective offers a historical and theoretical context for the current debates regarding the use of race in clinical algorithms, clinical and epidemiologic perspectives on "risk," and future directions for research and policy interventions that combat color-evasive racism and follow the principles of race-conscious medicine.