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Annual number of prescriptions increased 44% between 2005 and 2015, while total daily OMEQ

per 1000 population increased by 95%. The most deprived areas of Wales had 100 711 696 mg more OMEQ

prescribed than the least deprived over the study period.

Over the study period, OMEQ

burden nearly doubled, with disproportionate OMEQ

prescribed in the most deprived communities. Using OMEQ

provides an alternative measure of prescribing and allows easier comparison of the contribution different drugs make to the overall opioid burden.

Over the study period, OMEQe burden nearly doubled, with disproportionate OMEQe prescribed in the most deprived communities. Using OMEQe provides an alternative measure of prescribing and allows easier comparison of the contribution different drugs make to the overall opioid burden.

Out-of-hours (OOH) services in Italy provide >10 million consultations every year. To the authors' knowledge, no data on patient safety culture (PSC) have been reported.

To assess PSC in the Italian OOH setting.

National cross-sectional survey using the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire - Ambulatory Version (SAQ-AV).

The SAQ-AV was translated into Italian and distributed in a convenience sample of OOH doctors in 2015. Answers were collected anonymously by Qualtrics. Stata (version 14) was used to estimate Cronbach's alpha, perform exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, correlate items to doctors' characteristics, and to do item descriptive analysis.

Overall, 692 OOH doctors were contacted, with a 71% response rate. In the exploratory factor analysis (EFA), four factors were identified Communication and Safety Climate (14 items); Perceptions of Management (eight items); Workload and Clinical Risk (six items); and Burnout Risk (four items).These four factors accounted for 68% of the total variance (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin [KMO] statistic = 0.843). Cronbach's alpha ranged from 0.710-0.917. OOH doctors were often dissatisfied with their job; there is insufficient staff to provide optimal care and there is no training or supervision for new personnel and family medicine trainees. Service managers are perceived as distant, with particular issues concerning the communication between managers and OOH doctors. A large proportion of OOH doctors (56.8%) state that they do not receive adequate support.

These findings could be useful for informing policies on how to improve PSC in Italian OOH service.

These findings could be useful for informing policies on how to improve PSC in Italian OOH service.Large numbers of people are being discharged from hospital following COVID-19 without assessment of recovery. In 384 patients (mean age 59.9 years; 62% male) followed a median 54 days post discharge, 53% reported persistent breathlessness, 34% cough and 69% fatigue. 14.6% had depression. In those discharged with elevated biomarkers, 30.1% and 9.5% had persistently elevated d-dimer and C reactive protein, respectively. 38% of chest radiographs remained abnormal with 9% deteriorating. Systematic follow-up after hospitalisation with COVID-19 identifies the trajectory of physical and psychological symptom burden, recovery of blood biomarkers and imaging which could be used to inform the need for rehabilitation and/or further investigation.Rab11 recycling endosomes are involved in immunological synaptic functions, but the roles of Rab11 family-interacting protein 5 (Rab11Fip5), one of the Rab11 effectors, in the immune system remain obscure. Our previous study demonstrated that RAB11FIP5 transcripts are significantly elevated in PBMCs from HIV-1-infected individuals, making broadly HIV-1-neutralizing Abs compared with those without broadly neutralizing Abs; however, the role of Rab11FiP5 in immune functions remains unclear. In this study, a RAB11FIP5 gene knockout (RAB11FIP5-/-) mouse model was employed to study the role of Rab11Fip5 in immune responses. RAB11FIP5-/- mice exhibited no perturbation in lymphoid tissue cell subsets, and Rab11Fip5 was not required for serum Ab induction following HIV-1 envelope immunization, Ab transcytosis to mucosal sites, or survival after influenza challenge. However, differences were observed in multiple transcripts, including cytokine genes, in lymphocyte subsets from envelope-immunized RAB11FIP5-/- versus control mice. These included alterations in several genes in NK cells that mirrored observations in NKs from HIV-infected humans expressing less RAB11FIP5, although Rab11Fip5 was dispensable for NK cell cytolytic activity. Notably, immunized RAB11FIP5-/- mice had lower IL4 expression in CD4+ T follicular helper cells and showed lower TNF expression in CD8+ T cells. Likewise, TNF-α production by human CD8+ T cells correlated with PBMC RAB11FIP5 expression. These observations in RAB11FIP5-/- mice suggest a role for Rab11Fip5 in regulating cytokine responses.CD4+ T cells play critical roles during chronic viral infections, but the factors that regulate these responses remain incompletely defined. Linsitinib During chronic infection of mice with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus clone 13 (LCMV13), the TNFR family member GITR plays a critical CD4+ T cell-intrinsic role in allowing T cell accumulation and viral control. Previously, RNA sequencing of GITR+/+ and GITR-/- T cells sorted from the spleen of mice at day 3 of LCMV13 infection identified the chemokine receptor CX3CR1 as increased by GITR signaling in CD4+ T cells. In this study, we evaluated the role of CX3CR1 on CD4+ T cells during LCMV13 infection. CX3CR1 expression is induced on Ag-specific CD4+ T cells upon Ag stimulation, and GITR signaling further increases the level of CX3CR1 expression. CX3CR1 marks the most differentiated T-bethi, Th1 effector population. Adoptively transferred CX3CR1-/- SMARTA cells had slightly reduced expression of T-bet and IFN-γ per cell compared with their CX3CR1+/+ counterparts but showed no deficit in accumulation in the spleen, lung, or liver. In mixed-radiation chimeras reconstituted with CX3CR1+/+ and CX3CR1-/- bone marrow, CX3CR1+/+ CD4+ T cells showed a marginal deficit in tissue-resident memory T cell numbers compared with the CX3CR1-/- T cells. CX3CR1 may limit acquisition of the tissue-resident memory T cell phenotype because of its effects on increasing T-bet expression, albeit these small effects are unlikely to be of major biological significance. Taken together, these studies show that CX3CR1 marks the most highly differentiated CD4+ Th1 effector population but is largely dispensable for CD4+ T cell responses during chronic viral infection.