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To compare adherence, rates of subsequent schizophrenia-related relapses, healthcare resource utilization, and healthcare costs among Medicaid beneficiaries with schizophrenia who initiated once-monthly paliperidone palmitate (PP1M) versus a new oral atypical antipsychotic (OAA) following a recent schizophrenia-related relapse.

Six-state Medicaid data (01/2009-03/2018) were used to identify adults with schizophrenia initiated on PP1M or OAA (index date) within 30 days following a schizophrenia-related relapse (defined as a schizophrenia-related inpatient or emergency room visit). Patients were required to have 12 months of continuous eligibility before (baseline) and after (observation) the index date. Differences in baseline characteristics between PP1M and OAA patients were accounted for using 13 matching.

After matching, characteristics were well-balanced between PP1M (

=208, mean age=39 years, 35.6% female) and OAA patients (

=624, mean age=40 years, 34.6% female). During the 12-month observation Purpose To report an unusual case of corneal graft rejection after yellow fever vaccine.Methods Case report.Results We have described the case of a 48-year-old man who developed a corneal graft rejection in the left eye 3 weeks after a yellow fever vaccination. The ophthalmic examination of the left eye revealed conjunctival hyperemia, corneal graft edema with Descemet folds, and fine keratic precipitates. No abnormalities were found in the right eye. The episode of graft rejection fully recovered after a short course of systemic and topical steroid treatment.Conclusions This is the first case report of corneal transplant rejection temporally associated with yellow fever vaccination. Although the yellow fever vaccine is a very safe and efficacious vaccine, the occurrence of vaccine-related rejection may be more frequent than reported. Sapitinib Both patients and ophthalmologists should be aware of possible vaccine-related complications which may be potentially sight-threatening.

The International Headache Society criteria were written in order to help physicians establish a headache diagnosis. However, sometimes children with headache do not seem to fit any diagnosis. The purpose of our study was to assess the application of the criteria in a clinical setting.

Medical records of children referred for primary headache to the pediatric neurology clinic at Bnai Zion Medical Center from 2008 to 2017 were assessed.

A total of 989 patients (range 6-18 years; 53% female) were assessed at our neurology clinic. Twenty-four percent (n = 241) were diagnosed with tension-type headache, 26% (n = 256) with migraine, and 4.5% (45) with mixed headache. In 41.5% (410), we were unable to reach a specific diagnosis. No differences in gender or age were found between the groups. Children in the migraine group used more analgesic treatments to stop the headache attacks compared with the tension-type headache group (50% vs 38%,

= .001). Patients diagnosed with tension-type headache reported havinour patients' everyday lives. We found no major differences in frequency, intensity, and characteristics of pain between younger children and adolescents.Background Women with breast and gynecological cancers often experience adverse symptoms such as anxiety, depression, pain, and fatigue. Objective The purpose of this meta-analysis was to clarify the role of arts therapy (based on music, painting, and dance) in quality of life and reported symptoms among women with breast and gynecological cancers. Methods Articles on arts therapy were retrieved from relevant electronic databases through to May 2020. The outcomes (quality of life and symptoms such as anxiety, depression, pain, and fatigue) were estimated according to standard or validated scales that assessed psychological status and activities of daily living. The effect sizes for arts therapy were combined to show the standardized mean difference (SMD) and corresponding confidence interval (CI), and a random-effects model was used for computation. Results In total, 19 randomized controlled studies were included in this meta-analysis. The pooled SMDs for arts therapy were statistically significant for quality of life (0.58; 95% CI 0.02-1.13; p = 0.04), anxiety (-1.10; 95% CI -1.88 to -0.32), depression (-0.71; 95% CI -1.19 to -0.23), pain (-1.01; 95% CI; -1.97 to -0.08), and fatigue (-0.59; 95% CI -1.18 to -0.00). However, the summary SMDs for arts therapy was not significant for sleep disturbance, anger, vigor, tension, confusion, and stress. Conclusion This meta-analysis shows that arts therapy has favorable effects on improving quality of life and depression among patients with breast and gynecological cancers. Arts therapy also has positive effects on improving anxiety, pain, and fatigue symptoms among patients with breast cancer. Further studies are required to confirm the effect of arts therapy on anxiety, pain, and fatigue in patients with gynecological cancer.Purpose The readability and comprehensibility of Learner's Permit Knowledge Test practice questions and the relationship with test failure rates across states and the District of Columbia were examined. Method Failure rates were obtained from department representatives. Practice test questions were extracted from drivers' manuals and department websites and examined for readability using Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level and comprehensibility using Question Understanding Aid. The influence of readability and comprehensibility on test failure rates was explored. Results The average failure rate from reporting jurisdictions was 42.76%. In total, 11 out of 28 jurisdictions reported that test takers fail more than half the time, while 25 out of 28 reported that test takers fail at least a quarter of the time. While 33.09% of the variability in failure rates could be accounted for by syntactic complexity of the questions, 54.18% could be accounted for by the reading ease. Discussion With few exceptions, test failure rates are systematically high across the United States. The current findings suggest that these tests may be inappropriately biased against individuals with lower levels of literacy and language ability. Implications for test developers and clinicians are discussed.