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Depression has been reported as a risk factor for dementia. We compared health and health service use profiles in older people hospitalized with late-life depression and older people hospitalized with other mental illnesses and examined the transition to dementia.

A retrospective population-based study using linked administrative health data over 11years.

The sample includes 55,717 inpatients age 65+ years with depression and 104,068 inpatients age 65+ years with other mental illnesses in New South Wales, Australia.

The risk of subsequent dementia under consideration of sociodemographics, comorbidities, and health service use was analyzed with logistic regression.

The most prominent differences were the rates of delirium and self-harm with a 6 times lower rate of delirium and an 8 times higher rate of self-harm in people with late-life depression compared with those with other mental illness. Inpatients with late-life depression had an increased risk of subsequent dementia by 12% and received a deme-harm and delirium in older people.

We examined state variations in assisted living (AL) regulatory policies for admission/retention, staffing/training, medication management, and dementia care. Factors associated with domain-specific and overall regulatory stringency were identified.

This observational study used the following data sources 2019 review of state AL regulations; 2019 national inventory of AL communities; 2014 Government Accountability Office survey of Medicaid agencies; 2016 Genworth Cost of Care Survey; and the 2018 Nursing Home Compare.

Final analyses included 46 states (excluding Alaska, Kentucky, Louisiana, and West Virginia) and the District of Columbia.

For each regulatory domain of interest (dependent variables), we generated policy scores by conducting content analysis of state regulatory databases. States were assigned points for presence of each policy (eg, staff training). The number of points assigned to each policy was divided by the total possible number of policy-related points, producing state stringency sy stringency affects access to and care quality in ALs.

There were substantial variations in regulatory stringency across states. Several market and state generosity measures were identified as potential determinants of stringency, but the direction of these associations appeared to depend on what was being regulated. Future studies should examine how regulatory stringency affects access to and care quality in ALs.

To assess whether medical orders within Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms reflect patients' preferences for care at the end of life.

This cross-sectional study assessed the agreement between medical orders in POLST forms and the free-form text documentation of an advance care planning conversation performed by an independent researcher during a single episode of hospitalization.

Inpatients at a single public university hospital, aged 21years or older, and for whom one of their attending physicians provided a negative answer to the following question "Would I be surprised if this patient died in the next year?" Data collection occurred between October 2016 and September 2017.

Agreement between medical orders in POLST forms and the free-form text documentation of an advance care planning conversation was measured by kappa statistics.

Sixty-two patients were interviewed. Antineoplastic and Immunosuppressive Antibiotics chemical Patients' median (interquartile range) age was 62 (56-70) years, and 21 patients (34%) were women. Overall that the agreement was not 100% underscores the need to confirm frequently that POLST medical orders accurately reflect patients' current values and preferences of care.Despite a lack of evidence of benefit, the compounded product ABH gel (lorazepam, diphenhydramine, and haloperidol) continues to be prescribed for individuals in hospice and palliative care settings for the treatment of nausea and vomiting and terminal delirium. More effective and reliable pharmacological and nonpharmacological strategies exist for the treatment of these conditions in the palliative care and hospice settings. We discuss the pharmacokinetic and clinical evidence for the individual components of ABH gel, as well as the compounded product, and attempt to understand the mechanism of effect that some purport to see, as well as why the compound continues to enjoy such a cult following. Truly, the continued use of ABH gel makes for a pricey placebo and delays the treatment of end-of-life symptoms with modalities that work.Improving blood product quality and patient outcomes is an accepted goal in transfusion medicine research. Thus, there is an urgent need to understand the potential adverse effects on red blood cells (RBCs) during pre-transfusion storage. Current assessment techniques of these degradation events, termed "storage lesions", are subjective, labor-intensive, and complex. Here we describe emerging technologies that assess the biochemical, biophysical, and morphological characteristics of RBC storage lesions. Of these emerging techniques, machine learning (ML) has shown potential to overcome the limitations of conventional RBC assessment methods. Our previous work has shown that neural networks can extract chronological progressions of morphological changes in RBCs during storage without human input. We hypothesize that, with broader training and testing of multivariate data (e.g., varying donor factors and manufacturing methods), ML can further our understanding of clinical transfusion outcomes in multiple patient groups.The Newcomb-Benford law - also known as the "law of anomalous numbers" or, more commonly, Benford's law - predicts that the distribution of the first significant digit of random numbers obtained from mixed probability distributions follows a predictable pattern and reveals some universal behavior. Specifically, given a dataset of empirical measures, the likelihood of the first digit of any number being 1 is ∼30 %, ∼18 % for 2, 12.5 % for 3 and so on, with a decreasing probability all the way to number 9. If the digits were distributed uniformly, all the numbers 1 through 9 would have the same probability to appear as the first digit in any given empirical random measurement. However, this is not the case, as this law defies common sense and seems to apply seamlessly to large data. The use of omics technologies and, in particular, metabolomics has generated a wealth of big data in the field of transfusion medicine. In the present meta-analysis, we focused on previous big data from metabolomics studies of relevance to transfusion medicine one on the quality of stored red blood cells, one on the phenotypes of transfusion recipients, i.