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Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce by Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans

“…As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully…”
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Abstracts From the 2024 Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN) Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Research Network, Health Care Systems

“…The Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN) comprises 20 learning health systems with integrated care delivery and embedded research units. The network’s…”
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Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nation's Health Needs by Eden, Jill, Ed, Berwick, Donald, Ed, Wilensky, Gail, Ed

“…Today's physician education system produces trained doctors with strong scientific underpinnings in biological and physical sciences as well as supervised…”
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microRNA-181a downregulates deptor for TGFβ-induced glomerular mesangial cell hypertrophy and matrix protein expression by Maity, Soumya, Bera, Amit, Ghosh-Choudhury, Nandini, Das, Falguni, Kasinath, Balakuntalam S., Choudhury, Goutam Ghosh

“…TGFβ contributes to mesangial cell hypertrophy and matrix protein increase in various kidney diseases including diabetic nephropathy. Deptor is an…”
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Computational Technology for Effective Health Care: Immediate Steps and Strategic Directions by Lin, Herbert S, Stead, William W

“…Despite a strong commitment to delivering quality health care, persistent problems involving medical errors and ineffective treatment continue to plague the…”
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Care Needs of Highly Complex Chronic Patients in the Canary Islands: An Observational Study by Rodríguez-Álvaro, Martín, Fernández-Gutiérrez, Domingo Ángel, Cabeza-Mora, Antonio, Barrios-Torres, Rosario, Nursing Methodology Group General Directorate Of Health Care Programs Of The Canary Islands Health Service Primary Care, Brito-Brito, Pedro Ruymán

“…In the last few decades, the impact of chronic health conditions on health systems, as well as on the quality of life, frailty, and dependence of those…”
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Stromal interaction molecule 1 is required for neonatal testicular development in mice by Shen, Cong, Zhang, Ke, Yu, Jun, Guo, Yueshuai, Gao, Tingting, Liu, Yuanyuan, Zhang, Xi, Chen, Xia, Yu, Yi, Cheng, Hongbo, Zheng, Aiyan, Li, Hong, Huang, Xiaoyan, Ding, Xufeng, Zheng, Bo

“…Stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) is a transmembrane endoplasmic reticulum protein, and it serves as a Ca2+ sensor and activator of store-operated Ca2+…”
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Metabolic Syndrome and the Increased Risk of Medically Certified Long-term Sickness Absence: A Prospective Analysis Among Japanese Workers by Hoang, Dong V., Akter, Shamima, Inoue, Yosuke, Kuwahara, Keisuke, Fukunaga, Ami, Islam, Zobida, Nakagawa, Tohru, Honda, Toru, Yamamoto, Shuichiro, Okazaki, Hiroko, Miyamoto, Toshiaki, Ogasawara, Takayuki, Sasaki, Naoko, Uehara, Akihiko, Yamamoto, Makoto, Kochi, Takeshi, Eguchi, Masafumi, Shirasaka, Taiki, Shimizu, Makiko, Nagahama, Satsue, Hori, Ai, Imai, Teppei, Nishihara, Akiko, Tomita, Kentaro, Nishiura, Chihiro, Konishi, Maki, Kabe, Isamu, Yamamoto, Kenya, Mizoue, Tetsuya, Dohi, Seitaro

“…Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been associated with various chronic diseases that may lead to long-term sickness absence (LTSA), but there is…”
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The Urgent Need to Improve Health Care Quality: Institute of Medicine National Roundtable on Health Care Quality by Chassin, Mark R, Galvin, Robert W, and the National Roundtable on Health Care Quality

“…OBJECTIVE.— To identify issues related to the quality of health care in the United States, including its measurement, assessment, and improvement, requiring…”
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Knowledge of and attitudes to influenza vaccination in healthy primary healthcare workers in Spain, 2011-2012 by Domínguez, Angela, Godoy, Pere, Castilla, Jesús, Soldevila, Núria, Toledo, Diana, Astray, Jenaro, Mayoral, José María, Tamames, Sonia, García-Gutiérrez, Susana, González-Candelas, Fernando, Martín, Vicente, Díaz, José, Torner, Nuria

“…Annual influenza vaccination is recommended for healthcare workers, but many do not follow the recommendation. The objective of this study was to investigate…”
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Common infectious agents and monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis: a cross-sectional epidemiological study among healthy adults by Casabonne, Delphine, Almeida, Julia, Nieto, Wendy G, Romero, Alfonso, Fernández-Navarro, Paulino, Rodriguez-Caballero, Arancha, Muñoz-Criado, Santiago, Díaz, Marcos González, Benavente, Yolanda, de Sanjosé, Silvia, Orfao, Alberto

“…Risk factors associated with monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL), a potential precursor of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), remain unknown. Using a…”
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Mechanical Thrombectomy in Acute Stroke Patients with Moderate to Severe Pre-Stroke Disability by Sykora, Marek, Michel, Patrik, Strambo, Davide, Krebs, Stefan, Ferrari, Julia, Posekany, Alexandra, Mikšová, Dominika, Hermann, Konstantin, Gattringer, Thomas, Gizewski, Elke, Deutschmann, Hannes, Neumann, Christian, Lang, Wilfried

“…Background and Purpose Studies on mechanical thrombectomy (MT) in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients with preexisting disability are limited. We aimed to…”
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Child and Adolescent Health and Health Care Quality: Measuring What Matters by National Research Council, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Committee on Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures

“…Increasing public investments in health care services for low-income and special needs children and adolescents in the United States have raised questions…”
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Public Reporting of Health Care–Associated Infections (HAIs): Approach to Choosing HAI Measures by Passaretti, C. L., Barclay, P., Pronovost, P., Perl, and T. M., for the Maryland Health Care Commission Health Care–Associated Infection Technical Advisory Committee

“…Objective. To develop a method for selecting health care–associated infection (HAI) measures for public reporting. Context. HAIs are common, serious, and…”
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Seroprevalence study of B. pertussis infection in health care workers in Catalonia, Spain by Urbiztondo, Luis, Broner, Sonia, Costa, Josep, Rocamora, Laura, Bayas, José M, Campins, Magda, Esteve, Maria, Borras, Eva, Domínguez, Angela, for the Study of the Immune Status in Health Care, the Working Group

“…Pertussis is a re-emerging infection in countries with high infant immunization coverage. Healthcare workers (HCW) are exposed and can transmit the infection…”
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Knowledge of and attitudes to influenza in unvaccinated primary care physicians and nurses: A cross-sectional study by Domínguez, Angela, Godoy, Pere, Castilla, Jesús, María Mayoral, José, Soldevila, Núria, Torner, Núria, Toledo, Diana, Astray, Jenaro, Tamames, Sonia, García-Gutiérrez, Susana, González-Candelas, Fernando, Martín, Vicente, Díaz, José, Working Group, the CIBERESP, in Primary Health Care Workers, for the Survey on Influenza Vaccination

“…Primary healthcare workers, especially nurses, are exposed to the vast majority of patients with influenza and play an important role in vaccinating patients…”
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Graduate Medical Education Outcomes and Metrics: Proceedings of a Workshop by Martin, Payal, Zindel, Mariana, Nass, Sharyl

“…Graduate medical education (GME) is critical to the career development of individual physicians, to the functioning of many teaching institutions, and to the…”
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Organizational factors influencing successful primary care and public health collaboration by Valaitis, Ruta, Meagher-Stewart, Donna, Martin-Misener, Ruth, Wong, Sabrina T, MacDonald, Marjorie, O'Mara, Linda

“…Public health and primary care are distinct sectors within western health care systems. Within each sector, work is carried out in the context of…”
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Changes in the epidemiology of hepatitis A outbreaks 13 years after the introduction of a mass vaccination program by Martínez, Ana, Broner, Sonia, Sala, M Rosa, Manzanares-Laya, Sandra, Godoy, Pere, Planas, Caritat, Minguell, Sofia, Torner, Nuria, Jané, Mireia, Domínguez, Angela, for the Study of the Immune Status in Health Care, the Working Group, Hepatitis A in Catalonia, for the Study of

“…A hepatitis A+B vaccine vaccination program of 12-year-olds was introduced in Catalonia in 1998. The aim of this study was to investigate the evolution of…”
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Perspective on transition from pediatric to adult health care for patients with neurological disease: current situation and issues by Ogata, Katsuhisa, Mochizuki, Yoko, Saito, Toshio, Sakiyama, Yoshio, Mizuguchi, Masashi, Kubota, Masaya, Mimaki, Masakazu, Okuno, Tatsusada, Ikeda, Akio, Komori, Tetsuo, Yoneyama, Akira, Mochizuki, Hideki

“…An improvement in efficacy treatment and development of the social support system has led to many patients with neurological disease being able to reach…”
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