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Hospitalization provides an opportunity to address sexual health needs of adolescents who may not otherwise receive regular medical care. We investigated documentation of a sexual health discussion with adolescents hospitalized at our medical center to determine if previous primary care physician (PCP) visits in the same health system were associated with sexual health documentation during the hospital admission.

We retrospectively identified adolescents aged 13 to 17 years discharged from the pediatric general ward. Documented discussion of sexual health was reviewed in the electronic medical record. Previous PCP visits were identified from the affiliated primary care clinics within 12 months before hospitalization. We also queried follow-up PCP visits within 90 days of discharge to determine if a sexual health discussion during hospitalization was followed-up in the outpatient setting.

We analyzed 394 patients (49% girls; median age 15 years), of whom 122 (31%) had documentation of a sexual health disxual health intervention among adolescents who may not regularly see a PCP.

In several states, payers penalize hospitals when an inpatient readmission follows an inpatient stay. Observation stays are typically excluded from readmission calculations. Previous studies suggest inconsistent use of observation designations across hospitals. We sought to describe variation in observation stays and examine the impact of inclusion of observation stays on readmission metrics.

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of hospitalizations at 50 hospitals contributing to the Pediatric Health Information System database from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2018. We examined prevalence of observation use across hospitals and described changes to inpatient readmission rates with higher observation use. We described 30-day inpatient-only readmission rates and ranked hospitals against peer institutions. Finally, we included observation encounters into the calculation of readmission rates and evaluated hospitals' change in readmission ranking.

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= 44; 88%) used observation statdmission metric, and inclusion of observation stays in the calculation of readmission rates significantly affected hospital performance compared with peer institutions. Consideration should be given to include all admission types for readmission rate calculation.Cross-linking MS (XL-MS) has been recognized as an effective source of information about protein structures and interactions. In contrast to regular peptide identification, XL-MS has to deal with a quadratic search space, where peptides from every protein could potentially be cross-linked to any other protein. To cope with this search space, most tools apply different heuristics for search space reduction. We introduce a new open-source XL-MS database search algorithm, OpenPepXL, which offers increased sensitivity compared with other tools. OpenPepXL searches the full search space of an XL-MS experiment without using heuristics to reduce it. Because of efficient data structures and built-in parallelization OpenPepXL achieves excellent runtimes and can also be deployed on large compute clusters and cloud services while maintaining a slim memory footprint. We compared OpenPepXL to several other commonly used tools for identification of noncleavable labeled and label-free cross-linkers on a diverse set of XL-MS experiments. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/alflutinib-ast2818-mesylate.html In our first comparison, we used a data set from a fraction of a cell lysate with a protein database of 128 targets and 128 decoys. At 5% FDR, OpenPepXL finds from 7% to over 50% more unique residue pairs (URPs) than other tools. On data sets with available high-resolution structures for cross-link validation OpenPepXL reports from 7% to over 40% more structurally validated URPs than other tools. Additionally, we used a synthetic peptide data set that allows objective validation of cross-links without relying on structural information and found that OpenPepXL reports at least 12% more validated URPs than other tools. It has been built as part of the OpenMS suite of tools and supports Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. OpenPepXL also supports the MzIdentML 1.2 format for XL-MS identification results. It is freely available under a three-clause BSD license at https//openms.org/openpepxl.Radionuclide therapy targeting prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a promising treatment for prostate cancer. We reported a ligand featuring two lysine-ureido-glutamate groups, 64Cu-CuSarbisPSMA previously. Here, we report the therapeutic potential of 67Cu-CuSarbisPSMA. Methods Growth of PSMA-positive xenografts was evaluated following treatment with 67Cu-CuSarbisPSMA or 177Lu-LuPSMA I&T. Results At 13 days post-injection, tumor growth was similarly inhibited by the two tracers in a dose-dependent manner. Survival was comparable after single (30 MBq) or fractionated administrations (2 x 15MBq, two weeks apart). Conclusion67Cu-CuSarbisPSMA is efficacious in a PSMA-expressing model of prostate cancer.Accurate grading of patients with neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) is essential for risk stratification and optimal choice of therapy. Currently, grading is based on histologically assessed degree of tumor proliferation. The aim of the present study was to assess the long-term prognostic value of 18F-FDG-PET imaging for risk stratification of NENs and compare it with tumor grading (World Health Organization (WHO) 2010 classification). Methods We conducted a prospective cohort study evaluating the prognostic value of 18F-FDG-PET imaging and compared it to histological grading. Enrolled were 166 patients of all grades and with histologically confirmed NENs of gastro-entero-pancreatic origin. The primary endpoint was overall survival (OS). Progression-free survival (PFS) was a secondary endpoint. In addition, OS in relation to Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) was analyzed as an exploratory endpoint. The median follow-up time was 9.8 years. Results Analysis of the whole cohort revealed that a positive stological grading. 18F-FDG-PET could differentiate G1 and G2 tumors into low and high-risk groups. In the selection of therapy and for risk stratification of NEN patients, 18F-FDG-PET status should be considered.