Anesthesiology

All patients should be screened prior to presenting to health care facility when there is local, regional community transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Workers who lived in Medicaid expansion states were 5.4 percent more likely to enroll in Medicaid after job loss during pandemic

In the U.S., increases in life expectancy were seen for Black, API, Latino, White populations, but no change seen for AIAN

Percent of patients with conditions that had substantial or conclusive evidence of therapeutic value decreased from 2016 to 2020

Greater worst pain in first 24 hours and more prescription analgesic use at 60 days reported with spinal versus general anesthesia

Real-time locating systems may be used to improve the training experience, authors say

However, despite declines from 2004 to 2020, substance use-related actions remain much higher than actions for physical, psychological impairment

Consider the use of an alternative form of visualization, such as ultrasound, when feasible

With sustained doubling of Hispanic and Black medical students, it would take 92 and 66 years to correct deficit of physicians

50 of 51 health care facilities surveyed lacking in some or all of the five components of the WHO multimodal hand hygiene strategy