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Diagnostic uncertainty drives antibiotic overuseAntibiotic overuse contributes to the growing can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Despite local, national and global initiatives to target the problem, reducing overuse is challenging. Levels of antibiotic can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler prescribing in hospitals in the UK are still rising year on year.1 Pandolfo et al’s2 study in this issue of BMJ Quality &. Safety provides new insights into this problem by studying clinician decision-making about antibiotic prescribing in intensive care units, using a framework from psychology. The Necessity Concerns Framework can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler.

They explored how clinicians balanced the perceived necessity of antibiotics to protect the patient from deteriorating or dying from severe , against concerns about the actual or potential adverse consequences (including toxicity and the longer-term threat of AMR). Their findings highlight that clinical uncertainty is a complicating factor in this balancing can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler act. When clinicians were unsure about the underlying cause of symptoms, they preferred to ‘err on the side of caution’ and give the patient antibiotics just to be safe.Research into antibiotic prescribing across a range of healthcare settings has previously identified diagnostic uncertainty as a driving factor for overuse.3 Broom et al’s4 qualitative study of pulmonary clinicians found that uncertainty drove reliance on antibiotics for hospital patients with respiratory symptoms. Aspects of uncertainty that played into these decisions included difficulty distinguishing between different possible diagnoses that could explain the patient’s presenting symptoms and between bacterial and viral . When faced with a patient with a suspected , clinicians have a number of options can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler.

They can choose to order microbiology testing to inform their decision-making, or delay or withhold antibiotics and monitor the patient to see if symptoms resolve. But a common response to uncertainty about a suspected is to take action, by prescribing antibiotics ‘just in case’, to protect the patient can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler from the immediate risk of deterioration.5 Reliance on antibiotics under conditions of uncertainty is widely reinforced by social norms in the local settings and among colleagues, and perceived patient expectations for active treatment.6 7Pandolfo et al2 look primarily to improved microbiology testing as a way of reducing uncertainty and avoiding antibiotic overuse. Testing, however, does not necessarily provide certainty. Broom et al4 also point to uncertainties arising from difficulties in interpreting the test results, in terms of distinguishing between can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler the presence of a pathogen in a sample and colonisation causing infective symptoms. While improved testing can help inform decision-making, uncertainty can never be fully eliminated from the medical decision-making process.

Rather than simply looking to technical solutions to try to remove uncertainty, efforts to reduce antibiotic overuse need to acknowledge uncertainty and identify ways of reducing reliance on antibiotics as a quick solution for managing uncertainty.Features of decision-making under uncertaintyThe reliance on active treatment as a response to uncertainty is grounded in fundamental features of human decision-making that have proved adaptive over millennia. Clinicians routinely have to make decisions under time pressure can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler. Under these conditions, mental shortcuts (or heuristics) are effective at reducing cognitive load, and make decision-making more efficient when the right course of action is not immediately clear. But the use can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler of heuristics can introduce decision errors resulting from cognitive biases. Some of these biases have particular relevance for antibiotic decision-making,8 including ‘action bias’,9 which refers to people’s general preference for action over inaction even if the action is likely to result in poorer outcomes.

Action bias is most commonly attributed to widespread social can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler norms that interpret active choices as effortful and valuable, while labelling non-active choices as lazy alternatives that require little independent thought. Action bias is likely to increase if a decision-maker has had negative experiences in the past. Research shows that regret is higher for acts can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler of omission than for those of commission. In other words, after negative decision outcomes, people experience higher levels of regret associated with actions they failed to take.10 In the context of antibiotic decision-making this means that negative patient outcomes following non-prescribing are likely to produce disproportionately large levels of regret. Doctors who previously chose an approach of watchful waiting for a patient with suspected , over immediate antibiotic prescribing, may experience emotionally painful regret associated with that decision.

It is the can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler anticipation of further regret that ultimately discourages similar, inactive choices in the future.Risk aversion is another cognitive bias that drives decision-making under uncertainty. Risk aversion involves a preference for a sure or certain outcome over uncertainty, even if there are more potential gains to be had from tolerating uncertainty.11 Prescribing antibiotics ‘just in case’ is a risk-averse decision. In contrast, a decision not to prescribe, for the benefit of avoiding overtreatment and the long-term consequences of AMR, requires a can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler clinician to be more tolerant of uncertainty and less risk-averse. Being comfortable with uncertainty comes with experience. Evidence suggests that more experienced clinicians are better able to tolerate uncertainty and to make decisions that are less risk-averse.12An additional important feature of clinical decision-making is that clinicians are making treatment recommendations and decisions can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler for their patients.

People think differently about risks and potential outcomes when making decisions for others. Preferences for risk-reducing, active, treatments are higher when people make treatment decisions for others as opposed to themselves.13 And evidence suggests that clinicians recommend treatments for their patients different from those they would choose for themselves—prioritising survival rates for their patients over other outcomes such as the risk of adverse side effects.14In summary, there are fundamental human tendencies towards action in the face of uncertainty, a preference for certainty even at a cost and a desire to protect one’s own patients from the risk of serious harm (figure 1). These tendencies underpin a reliance on active treatment, such as antibiotic prescribing, as a way of managing can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler uncertainty. Psychosocial strategies that could have value in mitigating against antibiotic overuse as a response to uncertainty are outlined in figure 1 and described below. These include strategic framing of options, substitution, documentation of decision-making processes and social support.Diagnostic uncertainty and antibiotic overprescribing" data-icon-position data-hide-link-title="0">Figure 1 Diagnostic uncertainty and antibiotic overprescribingHow can we reduce antibiotic can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler overuse?.

Avoiding overtreatment is a common problem in medicine and requires clinicians to refrain from action, by not initiating tests or treatment when, on balance, these are not in the best interests of the patient or incur unnecessary costs (including costs to society). Efforts to reduce treatment overuse have used strategic framing15 to label certain treatments as ‘low value’ forms can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler of care. Specific directives, such as those in the Choosing Wisely campaign,16 provide guidelines to support avoidance of certain forms of treatment under certain circumstances. The campaign’s ‘do not do’ directives encourage the avoidance of active treatment where it would be of low value or potentially cause patient harm. Drawing on this approach, formalising antibiotic prescribing guidelines to clearly outline the conditions under which antibiotic prescribing is likely to be of low value could play a role in supporting reductions can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler in antibiotic overuse.

Such guidelines and directives can encourage and legitimise decisions to avoid active treatment, but can be difficult to implement in practice. Evidence about treatment value at can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler population level may be seen as uninformative for individual-level decisions.17 Here, shared decision-making can play an important role. For example, in cancer treatment decisions, conversations supported by decision tools can help in assessing the value of treatment for an individual patient and can enable discussion about goals of care and the appropriateness of active (or more aggressive) intervention.18 In the case of antibiotic overuse, shared decision-making with patients or their relatives (when feasible) can provide an opportunity for a balanced discussion of uncertainties, risk and preferences.19 Shared decision-making approaches can also play a role in addressing clinicians’ tendencies towards more risk-averse approaches to treatment when making decisions for others. Judgements about the value of antibiotic use are complicated, however, by tensions between the potential value of an antibiotic to an individual patient and can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler the potential harm to society as a whole through AMR.5 The value to identifiable patients is likely to take precedence over agent-neutral harms—harms that are incurred by non-identifiable members of society.20 This holds particularly true in clinical cases characterised by extreme urgency (eg, patients presenting with symptoms of sepsis), where a sense of moral obligation to rescue the patient may be evoked (the so-called rule of rescue),21 outweighing any other considerations. The role of guidelines and shared decision-making in resolving these tensions is limited, as decision-making requires balancing of individual and collective risks and moral reasoning.22A more promising line of enquiry might be to explore the strategic reframing of alternatives to active treatment.

A choice not to prescribe an antibiotic could present a threat to the doctor–patient relationship if a patient views can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler this as failure to provide necessary treatment and feels the clinician has not responded to their need for care. This issue is evident in other areas of medicine and has received particular attention in relation to end of life care, where efforts to reduce overtreatment to avoid patient harm have been problematic when interpreted as ‘not doing’. Perkins and Fritz23 describe the reluctance of clinicians to discuss do not attempt resuscitation (DNAR) orders with patients and relatives because of a misconception that this equates with not providing any treatment. They argue for the need to frame these discussions in terms of goals of care and alternative actions, and to rename DNAR orders can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler as ‘Emergency Care Treatment Plans’. Similarly, in the field of cancer care, non-treatment choices that are intended to reduce the harm from overtreatment are deliberately framed using active language.

In the management of certain cancers including prostate and colorectal, the terms ‘active surveillance’ or ‘active monitoring’ are used to describe a period of intensive monitoring as an alternative to passive terms can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler like ‘watchful waiting’.24 Framing a non-medical approach to management of symptoms as an active alternative to antibiotic prescribing potentially mitigates against the impact of action bias on treatment decisions.In a similar vein, Helfrich et al25 draw on theories of cognitive processing to argue for the role of substitution in de-implementing low value or non-evidence-based practices. In the field of de-implementation, substitution involves replacing an undesired behaviour or practice with an alternative (eg, radiography replaced by CT).26 Substitution is more effective as a behaviour change strategy than simply asking people to stop an undesired behaviour, or to ‘do nothing’.27 28 This type of strategy avoids cognitively demanding processes, such as clinicians having to consciously reflect on their choices, or to unlearn and relearn new practices. Instead, it provides an easy alternative for action in line with the limitations of quick, heuristic decision-making approaches can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler that clinicians use in reality. Drawing on this approach, there may be value in reframing antibiotic prescribing in terms of a choice between pharmaceutical and non-medical pathways of care for suspected . In this context, non-medical forms of care such as the administration of fluids and enhanced monitoring would form an alternative, goal-directed, treatment pathway.The clinicians interviewed in Pandolfo et al’s2 study argued that they had to ‘be brave’ to withhold antibiotics, reflecting another key concern.

The defensibility of decisions not to can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler prescribe. Fear of censure from colleagues and reputational damage, and risk of litigation for failing to treat, have been identified as driving factors in antibiotic overuse.29 30 Hedging-type defensive medicine—excessive use of tests and treatment as a defence against patient complaints, accusations of negligence and legal challenge—is reported as a common practice and a barrier to reducing overuse of medicine.31 A significant problem is that the process of decision-making about not taking action often remains undocumented. In the case of decisions about antibiotic use, this means that a choice not to prescribe antibiotics could be interpreted by can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler others as an act of passive omission—a mistake or error—rather than active commission based on reasoned judgement. Enabling and encouraging clinicians to document the decision-making process behind non-prescribing, including documentation of patient involvement in discussions about value and goals of care, would provide a visible paper record. Giving protection for clinicians from accusation of carelessness or neglect.32 Designing paperwork to allow documentation of uncertainty and of the evolving understanding of a patient’s condition could enable clinicians to feel more comfortable with uncertainty can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler and avoid the drive to establish certainty and take action.

As Ries and Jansen31 identify from their review of empirical research on defensive medicine, such individual-level approaches need to be accompanied by organisational-level culture change. In relation to antibiotic use, this would mean addressing the impact of initiatives and targets that disincentivise tolerance of uncertainty and encourage defensive medicine.33Although antibiotic decision-making is commonly understood as an individual behaviour, clinicians often consult with colleagues or expert advisors (such as microbiology, pharmacy or infectious diseases consultants) to inform their decision-making. For inexperienced clinicians, social support, through expert advice and senior review to provide safety-netting of their can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler treatment decisions, can help them feel safer tolerating uncertainty. Role modelling by senior clinicians of how to deal with uncertainty has also been identified as a strategy for educating and socialising new doctors in ways of managing uncertainty.12 Research into group decision-making provides a further intriguing option for supporting decision-making about management under uncertainty. Evidence has shown that randomly created groups of three or more medical decision-makers overprescribe antibiotics less frequently than individual prescribers.34 As well as improving the outcomes of decisions made under uncertainty, the social support of a team is likely to lessen feelings of personal responsibility and risk susceptibility, reduce fear of litigation, and therefore lighten the difficult burden can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler of uncertainty.ConclusionsPandolfo et al’s2 study provides more evidence that clinical uncertainty drives antibiotic overuse.

The role of uncertainty in antibiotic overuse is important but frequently overlooked. Antimicrobial stewardship approaches that are can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler predicated on auditing and ‘correcting’ prescribing behaviour fail to take into account the uncertainties around diagnosis and management of and how antibiotic overuse can result from the clinicians’ drive to reduce uncertainty and protect the patients in their care from harm. Equally, technical solutions such as improved diagnostic tests can never fully resolve uncertainties. Recognising that uncertainty is an inherent aspect of medicine and considering how best to support clinicians to avoid reliance on antibiotics as a remedy for uncertainty should be the foundation for future efforts to mitigate against antibiotic overuse in clinical practice.Ethics statementsPatient consent for publicationNot required.AcknowledgmentsThe authors are grateful for the helpful suggestions and comments by Perla Marang-van de Mheen during the preparation of this article.The anti inflammatory drugs can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler symbicort has contributed to millions of deaths around the world and placed unprecedented strains on healthcare systems. Several studies early in the symbicort demonstrated substantial variation in anti inflammatory drugs-associated mortality rates among hospitalised patients across and within countries, suggesting that hospital factors such as bed capacity, adequacy of staffing, supplies of ventilators and other critical equipment, and/or quality of care had a major impact on patient outcomes.1–3 These analyses have been difficult to interpret, however, because variation in outcomes may also reflect community-based factors beyond the control of hospitals such as differences in testing capacity, thresholds for hospital admission, and patient case mix.

Nonetheless, rigorously examining trends in anti inflammatory drugs outcomes and the contribution of potentially modifiable hospital factors to mortality is critical given the spectre of additional variant-fueled surges as well as future novel threats.An article in this issue of BMJ Quality &. Safety by Bottle and can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler colleagues4 sheds welcome new light on this topic. The authors sought to quantify variation in anti inflammatory drugs mortality rates between hospitals and over time in England in the first symbicort wave (March–July 2020) using detailed patient and hospital-level administrative data to explain those variations in the early (March–April 2020) and late study period (May–July 2020). In all, their analysis can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler included 74 781 patients admitted with a primary diagnosis of anti inflammatory drugs to 124 acute hospitals. Their first major finding was that there was a massive decline in crude in-hospital mortality rates from 33% in March 2020 to 13% in July 2020.

Improvements in survival were seen in all age groups, with younger patients seeing the largest relative decline in mortality, as well as in hospitals can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler with relatively low and high anti inflammatory drugs mortality rates. Numerous patient-level predictors of mortality were identified, many of which are consistent with prior evidence, including age, male sex, non-white race, and obesity and other comorbidities. Interestingly, the present study showed that some of these were only significant predictors in either the early study period (obesity, diabetes, emergency admissions in the previous 12 months and ethnicity) or late period (emergency vs non-emergency admission and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). This interaction between predictors and time period may be important to account for in future studies assessing trends can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler in anti inflammatory drugs mortality. The authors also analysed hospital-level predictors, which included the daily number of anti inflammatory drugs admissions and the mean weekly number of total occupied beds, hospitalised and mechanically ventilated patients with anti inflammatory drugs, and staff absences related to anti inflammatory drugs.

Of these, only the number of daily anti inflammatory drugs admissions in a hospital during the late study period was associated with can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler increased mortality. More specifically, the odds of a patient with anti inflammatory drugs dying increased by 7% with each additional anti inflammatory drugs patient admitted to that hospital per day up until four admissions per day, with no further increase in mortality beyond that number.The other major finding in the study by Bottle and colleagues was that hospitals had substantial variation in crude anti inflammatory drugs mortality rates, ranging from 16% to 46% in the early study period and 4% to 46% in the late study period.4 Overall, 44% and 22% of hospitals qualified as either high or low mortality outliers at ≥2 SD in the early study period and late study period, respectively. This variation was substantially attenuated following risk-adjustment, indicating that there were major differences in the medical complexity of anti inflammatory drugs patients being cared for across can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler hospitals. However, the variation remained statistically significant following risk adjustment, with 20% and 8% of hospitals still qualifying as outliers in the early and late periods.The finding that crude anti inflammatory drugs mortality rates among hospitalised patients decreased over time is encouraging, particularly given the relatively short period under study. However, these mortality improvements are likely attributable in large part to an increasingly less adverse patient case mix.

Such changes can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler may have resulted from increased case ascertainment resulting from better access and use of anti inflammatory drugs tests, detecting cases that on average have lower risk for death, as testing was initially limited to the most severely ill patients. In many countries, the first wave also disproportionately affected the most frail and vulnerable patients resulting in progressive depletion of the ‘pool’ of highest risk patients and thereby indirectly resulting in secular improvements in case fatality.5 At the same time, other studies that have incorporated risk adjustment into trend analyses have also reported declining mortality rates during ‘wave 1’ of the anti inflammatory drugs symbicort among hospitalised and ICU patients in England and other countries, suggesting that better care has also contributed .6–8 Interestingly, much of the improvements in mortality reported in the study by Bottle and colleagues occurred before evidence emerged regarding the effectiveness of corticosteroids for reducing mortality in June 2020, although corticosteroids were likely being used in some patients with anti inflammatory drugs prior to that point given that many UK hospitals formed part of the related RECOVERY trial.9 The mortality reduction over time, then, also likely reflects rapid improvements in the general care of patients with anti inflammatory drugs with growing evidence, experience and dissemination of consensus treatment guidelines. Notable early changes in anti inflammatory drugs care that may have contributed to this favourable trend include shifting away from early intubation and greater can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler use of high-flow oxygen, non-invasive ventilation. Proning in ventilated and non-ventilated patients. And increasing confidence in the effectiveness of personal protective equipment that likely facilitated essential medical care and resumption of ICU procedures that were initially deferred due to concerns about aerosolisation (such as bronchoscopies and tracheostomies).10–14It is also encouraging that hospital variation in anti inflammatory drugs mortality rates was substantially attenuated after case-mix adjustment and that most hospital-level variables studied can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler in this analysis were not associated with worse outcomes.

This suggests that hospitals in England were able to provide relatively consistent quality of care for patients with anti inflammatory drugs in the early symbicort surge despite the enormous pressures on staff and facilities. Even the residual hospital variation in this study should be interpreted can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler cautiously. Although there was detailed risk adjustment using administrative data, the authors were unable to adjust for important factors like severity of illness at the time of admission. Prior studies have demonstrated the importance and impact of physiological risk-adjustment on hospital mortality rankings for severe s.15Nonetheless, even though Bottle et al4 overall found that hospitals’ mortality in the early period correlated weakly with that in the late period, some hospitals clearly remained in the highest risk-adjusted mortality quartile in both periods while other hospitals moved from the lowest to higher mortality quartiles. Since the authors found that the number of daily anti inflammatory drugs admissions was associated with greater likelihood of death among patients with anti inflammatory drugs in the later months of the study, this suggests that strains on hospitals’ staff can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler and other resources may have contributed to worse outcomes.

This hypothesis is bolstered by several studies showing similar findings in the USA, where hospitals are more diverse with respect to access, size, resources and services. One national cohort study of patients with anti inflammatory drugs treated in US hospitals, for example, found that although most hospitals achieved improvements in risk-adjusted anti inflammatory drugs mortality rates, the factor most strongly associated with poor or worsening hospital outcomes was high or increasing burden of cases in the communities they served.16 Another analysis of patients with anti inflammatory drugs treated in the ICU at 88 Veterans Affairs hospitals during periods of increased ICU demand found increased risk-adjusted mortality rates compared with low periods of ICU demand.17 Lastly, a study of patients with anti inflammatory drugs admitted to 558 US hospitals between March and August 2020 found that a surging case load (defined using a severity-weighted measure of anti inflammatory drugs case load relative to pre-anti inflammatory drugs bed capacity) was strongly associated with anti inflammatory drugs mortality across both ICU and non-ICU patients.18 Most strikingly, this analysis estimated that nearly one in four anti inflammatory drugs deaths in can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler the USA during the early wave were potentially attributable to hospitals strained by surging caseloads.What lessons can we learn and apply from this collective experience with the early anti inflammatory drugs wave?. With regard to trends, the dramatic improvements in anti inflammatory drugs mortality over just a few months suggest that the rapid dissemination and uptake of new evidence were amazingly successful. Professional societies and expert panels mobilised quickly to review can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler and synthesise available evidence into best practice guidelines, with frequent updates as new evidence emerged. Hospitals organised anti inflammatory drugs-focused journal clubs, research conferences, collaborative case discussions and committees that adopted published guidelines into local management protocols.

All of these achievements should serve as a model for responses to novel threats.The observation that mortality rates were higher in overburdened hospitals, however, should reinforce the importance of a coordinated regional approach to mitigate uneven surges in patient volume. During times of crisis, hospitals simply cannot afford to can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler operate in silos. Although coordination has improved in many countries over the past year, there is still room to increase coordination between regional health departments and hospitals to better track bed capacity and staffing. Share essential resources including ventilators, personal protective equipment can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler and testing supplies. Proactively manage access to long-term care and skilled nursing facilities.

Plan reductions can symbicort be used as a rescue inhaler in elective procedures. And reallocate both patients with anti inflammatory drugs and without anti inflammatory drugs when needed.19 20 This would not only lead to better patient outcomes but also help decompress overburdened healthcare workers—a group that has suffered enormous stress from anti inflammatory drugs and remains at ongoing high risk of burnout.21 22The anti inflammatory drugs symbicort has taken a devastating toll on society and our healthcare systems. Although increasing vaccinations and lower case counts of severe disease in many countries are cause for optimism, it is incumbent on us to translate both the positive and the negative lessons of the initial anti inflammatory drugs response to better serve our patients and colleagues during subsequent waves of the present and future symbicorts.Ethics statementsPatient consent for publicationNot required..

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Efforts to reduce treatment overuse have used strategic framing15 to label certain treatments as ‘low buy symbicort from canada value’ forms of care. Specific directives, such as those in the Choosing Wisely campaign,16 provide guidelines to support avoidance of certain forms of treatment under certain circumstances. The campaign’s ‘do not do’ directives encourage the avoidance of active treatment where it would be of low value or potentially cause patient harm. Drawing on this approach, formalising antibiotic prescribing guidelines buy symbicort from canada to clearly outline the conditions under which antibiotic prescribing is likely to be of low value could play a role in supporting reductions in antibiotic overuse.

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Instead, it provides an buy symbicort from canada easy alternative for action in line with the limitations of quick, heuristic decision-making approaches that clinicians use in reality. Drawing on this approach, there may be value in reframing antibiotic prescribing in terms of a choice between pharmaceutical and non-medical pathways of care for suspected . In this context, non-medical forms of care such as the administration of fluids and enhanced monitoring would form an alternative, goal-directed, treatment pathway.The clinicians interviewed in Pandolfo et al’s2 study argued that they had to ‘be brave’ to withhold antibiotics, reflecting another key concern. The defensibility of buy symbicort from canada decisions not to prescribe.

Fear of censure from colleagues and reputational damage, and risk of litigation for failing to treat, have been identified as driving factors in antibiotic overuse.29 30 Hedging-type defensive medicine—excessive use of tests and treatment as a defence against patient complaints, accusations of negligence and legal challenge—is reported as a common practice and a barrier to reducing overuse of medicine.31 A significant problem is that the process of decision-making about not taking action often remains undocumented. In the case of decisions about antibiotic use, this means that a choice not to prescribe antibiotics could be interpreted by others as an act of passive omission—a mistake or error—rather than active commission buy symbicort from canada based on reasoned judgement. Enabling and encouraging clinicians to document the decision-making process behind non-prescribing, including documentation of patient involvement in discussions about value and goals of care, would provide a visible paper record. Giving protection for buy symbicort from canada clinicians from accusation of carelessness or neglect.32 Designing paperwork to allow documentation of uncertainty and of the evolving understanding of a patient’s condition could enable clinicians to feel more comfortable with uncertainty and avoid the drive to establish certainty and take action.

As Ries and Jansen31 identify from their review of empirical research on defensive medicine, such individual-level approaches need to be accompanied by organisational-level culture change. In relation to antibiotic use, this would mean addressing the impact of initiatives and targets that disincentivise tolerance of uncertainty and encourage defensive medicine.33Although antibiotic decision-making is commonly understood as an individual behaviour, clinicians often consult with colleagues or expert advisors (such as microbiology, pharmacy or infectious diseases consultants) to inform their decision-making. For inexperienced clinicians, social support, through expert advice and senior review to provide safety-netting of their treatment decisions, buy symbicort from canada can help them feel safer tolerating uncertainty. Role modelling by senior clinicians of how to deal with uncertainty has also been identified as a strategy for educating and socialising new doctors in ways of managing uncertainty.12 Research into group decision-making provides a further intriguing option for supporting decision-making about management under uncertainty.

Evidence has shown that randomly created groups of three or more medical decision-makers overprescribe antibiotics less frequently than individual prescribers.34 As well as improving the outcomes of decisions made under uncertainty, the social support of a team is likely to lessen feelings of personal responsibility and risk susceptibility, reduce fear of litigation, and therefore lighten the difficult burden of uncertainty.ConclusionsPandolfo et al’s2 buy symbicort from canada study provides more evidence that clinical uncertainty drives antibiotic overuse. The role of uncertainty in antibiotic overuse is important but frequently overlooked. Antimicrobial stewardship approaches that are predicated on auditing and ‘correcting’ prescribing behaviour fail to take into account the buy symbicort from canada uncertainties around diagnosis and management of and how antibiotic overuse can result from the clinicians’ drive to reduce uncertainty and protect the patients in their care from harm. Equally, technical solutions such as improved diagnostic tests can never fully resolve uncertainties.

Recognising that uncertainty is an inherent aspect of medicine and considering how best to support clinicians to avoid reliance on antibiotics as a remedy for uncertainty should be the foundation for future efforts to mitigate against antibiotic overuse in clinical practice.Ethics statementsPatient consent for publicationNot required.AcknowledgmentsThe authors are grateful for the helpful suggestions and comments by buy symbicort from canada Perla Marang-van de Mheen during the preparation of this article.The anti inflammatory drugs symbicort has contributed to millions of deaths around the world and placed unprecedented strains on healthcare systems. Several studies early in the symbicort demonstrated substantial variation in anti inflammatory drugs-associated mortality rates among hospitalised patients across and within countries, suggesting that hospital factors such as bed capacity, adequacy of staffing, supplies of ventilators and other critical equipment, and/or quality of care had a major impact on patient outcomes.1–3 These analyses have been difficult to interpret, however, because variation in outcomes may also reflect community-based factors beyond the control of hospitals such as differences in testing capacity, thresholds for hospital admission, and patient case mix. Nonetheless, rigorously examining trends in anti inflammatory drugs outcomes and the contribution of potentially modifiable hospital factors to mortality is critical given the spectre of additional variant-fueled surges as well as future novel threats.An article in this issue of BMJ Quality &. Safety by Bottle and colleagues4 sheds welcome new light on this buy symbicort from canada topic.

The authors sought to quantify variation in anti inflammatory drugs mortality rates between hospitals and over time in England in the first symbicort wave (March–July 2020) using detailed patient and hospital-level administrative data to explain those variations in the early (March–April 2020) and late study period (May–July 2020). In all, their analysis included 74 781 patients admitted with a primary diagnosis of anti inflammatory drugs to 124 acute buy symbicort from canada hospitals. Their first major finding was that there was a massive decline in crude in-hospital mortality rates from 33% in March 2020 to 13% in July 2020. Improvements in survival were seen in all age groups, with younger patients seeing the largest relative decline in mortality, as buy symbicort from canada well as in hospitals with relatively low and high anti inflammatory drugs mortality rates.

Numerous patient-level predictors of mortality were identified, many of which are consistent with prior evidence, including age, male sex, non-white race, and obesity and other comorbidities. Interestingly, the present study showed that some of these were only significant predictors in either the early study period (obesity, diabetes, emergency admissions in the previous 12 months and ethnicity) or late period (emergency vs non-emergency admission and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). This interaction between predictors and time period may be important to account for in buy symbicort from canada future studies assessing trends in anti inflammatory drugs mortality. The authors also analysed hospital-level predictors, which included the daily number of anti inflammatory drugs admissions and the mean weekly number of total occupied beds, hospitalised and mechanically ventilated patients with anti inflammatory drugs, and staff absences related to anti inflammatory drugs.

Of these, only the number of daily anti inflammatory drugs admissions in a hospital buy symbicort from canada during the late study period was associated with increased mortality. More specifically, the odds of a patient with anti inflammatory drugs dying increased by 7% with each additional anti inflammatory drugs patient admitted to that hospital per day up until four admissions per day, with no further increase in mortality beyond that number.The other major finding in the study by Bottle and colleagues was that hospitals had substantial variation in crude anti inflammatory drugs mortality rates, ranging from 16% to 46% in the early study period and 4% to 46% in the late study period.4 Overall, 44% and 22% of hospitals qualified as either high or low mortality outliers at ≥2 SD in the early study period and late study period, respectively. This variation buy symbicort from canada was substantially attenuated following risk-adjustment, indicating that there were major differences in the medical complexity of anti inflammatory drugs patients being cared for across hospitals. However, the variation remained statistically significant following risk adjustment, with 20% and 8% of hospitals still qualifying as outliers in the early and late periods.The finding that crude anti inflammatory drugs mortality rates among hospitalised patients decreased over time is encouraging, particularly given the relatively short period under study.

However, these mortality improvements are likely attributable in large part to an increasingly less adverse patient case mix. Such changes may have resulted from increased case ascertainment resulting from better access and use of anti inflammatory drugs tests, detecting cases that on average have lower risk for death, as testing was initially limited to the most severely ill buy symbicort from canada patients. In many countries, the first wave also disproportionately affected the most frail and vulnerable patients resulting in progressive depletion of the ‘pool’ of highest risk patients and thereby indirectly resulting in secular improvements in case fatality.5 At the same time, other studies that have incorporated risk adjustment into trend analyses have also reported declining mortality rates during ‘wave 1’ of the anti inflammatory drugs symbicort among hospitalised and ICU patients in England and other countries, suggesting that better care has also contributed .6–8 Interestingly, much of the improvements in mortality reported in the study by Bottle and colleagues occurred before evidence emerged regarding the effectiveness of corticosteroids for reducing mortality in June 2020, although corticosteroids were likely being used in some patients with anti inflammatory drugs prior to that point given that many UK hospitals formed part of the related RECOVERY trial.9 The mortality reduction over time, then, also likely reflects rapid improvements in the general care of patients with anti inflammatory drugs with growing evidence, experience and dissemination of consensus treatment guidelines. Notable early changes in anti inflammatory drugs care that may have contributed to this favourable trend include shifting away from early intubation buy symbicort from canada and greater use of high-flow oxygen, non-invasive ventilation.

Proning in ventilated and non-ventilated patients. And increasing confidence in the effectiveness of personal protective equipment that likely facilitated essential medical care and resumption of ICU procedures that were initially deferred due to concerns about aerosolisation (such as bronchoscopies and tracheostomies).10–14It is also encouraging that hospital variation in anti inflammatory drugs mortality rates was substantially attenuated after case-mix adjustment buy symbicort from canada and that most hospital-level variables studied in this analysis were not associated with worse outcomes. This suggests that hospitals in England were able to provide relatively consistent quality of care for patients with anti inflammatory drugs in the early symbicort surge despite the enormous pressures on staff and facilities. Even the residual hospital variation in this study should be interpreted cautiously buy symbicort from canada.

Although there was detailed risk adjustment using administrative data, the authors were unable to adjust for important factors like severity of illness at the time of admission. Prior studies have demonstrated the importance and impact of physiological risk-adjustment on hospital mortality rankings for severe s.15Nonetheless, even though Bottle et al4 overall found that hospitals’ mortality in the early period correlated weakly with that in the late period, some hospitals clearly remained in the highest risk-adjusted mortality quartile in both periods while other hospitals moved from the lowest to higher mortality quartiles. Since the authors found that the number of daily anti inflammatory drugs admissions was associated buy symbicort from canada with greater likelihood of death among patients with anti inflammatory drugs in the later months of the study, this suggests that strains on hospitals’ staff and other resources may have contributed to worse outcomes. This hypothesis is bolstered by several studies showing similar findings in the USA, where hospitals are more diverse with respect to access, size, resources and services.

One national cohort study of patients with anti inflammatory drugs treated in US hospitals, for example, found that although most buy symbicort from canada hospitals achieved improvements in risk-adjusted anti inflammatory drugs mortality rates, the factor most strongly associated with poor or worsening hospital outcomes was high or increasing burden of cases in the communities they served.16 Another analysis of patients with anti inflammatory drugs treated in the ICU at 88 Veterans Affairs hospitals during periods of increased ICU demand found increased risk-adjusted mortality rates compared with low periods of ICU demand.17 Lastly, a study of patients with anti inflammatory drugs admitted to 558 US hospitals between March and August 2020 found that a surging case load (defined using a severity-weighted measure of anti inflammatory drugs case load relative to pre-anti inflammatory drugs bed capacity) was strongly associated with anti inflammatory drugs mortality across both ICU and non-ICU patients.18 Most strikingly, this analysis estimated that nearly one in four anti inflammatory drugs deaths in the USA during the early wave were potentially attributable to hospitals strained by surging caseloads.What lessons can we learn and apply from this collective experience with the early anti inflammatory drugs wave?. With regard to trends, the dramatic improvements in anti inflammatory drugs mortality over just a few months suggest that the rapid dissemination and uptake of new evidence were amazingly successful. Professional societies and expert panels mobilised quickly to review and synthesise available evidence into best practice guidelines, with frequent updates buy symbicort from canada as new evidence emerged. Hospitals organised anti inflammatory drugs-focused journal clubs, research conferences, collaborative case discussions and committees that adopted published guidelines into local management protocols.

All of these achievements should serve as a model for responses to novel threats.The observation that mortality rates were higher in overburdened hospitals, however, should reinforce the importance of a coordinated regional approach to mitigate uneven surges in patient volume. During times buy symbicort from canada of crisis, hospitals simply cannot afford to operate in silos. Although coordination has improved in many countries over the past year, there is still room to increase coordination between regional health departments and hospitals to better track bed capacity and staffing. Share essential resources including ventilators, personal protective equipment and testing buy symbicort from canada supplies.

Proactively manage access to long-term care and skilled nursing facilities. Plan reductions buy symbicort from canada in elective procedures. And reallocate both patients with anti inflammatory drugs and without anti inflammatory drugs when needed.19 20 This would not only lead to better patient outcomes but also help decompress overburdened healthcare workers—a group that has suffered enormous stress from anti inflammatory drugs and remains at ongoing high risk of burnout.21 22The anti inflammatory drugs symbicort has taken a devastating toll on society and our healthcare systems. Although increasing vaccinations and lower case counts of severe disease in many countries are cause for optimism, it is incumbent on us to translate both the positive and the negative lessons of the initial anti inflammatory drugs response to better serve our patients and colleagues during subsequent waves of the present and future symbicorts.Ethics statementsPatient consent for publicationNot required..

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This data brief describes sleep duration and sleep quality among nonpregnant women aged 40–59 by menopausal status. The age range selected for this analysis reflects the focus on midlife sleep health. In this analysis, 74.2% of women are how much symbicort cost premenopausal, 3.7% are perimenopausal, and 22.1% are postmenopausal. Keywords. Insufficient sleep, menopause, National Health Interview Survey Perimenopausal women were more likely than premenopausal and postmenopausal women to sleep less than 7 hours, on average, in a 24-hour how much symbicort cost period.More than one in three nonpregnant women aged 40–59 slept less than 7 hours, on average, in a 24-hour period (35.1%) (Figure 1).

Perimenopausal women were most likely to sleep less than 7 hours, on average, in a 24-hour period (56.0%), compared with 32.5% of premenopausal and 40.5% of postmenopausal women. Postmenopausal women were significantly more likely than premenopausal women to sleep less than 7 hours, on average, in a 24-hour period. Figure 1 how much symbicort cost. Percentage of nonpregnant women aged 40–59 who slept less than 7 hours, on average, in a 24-hour period, by menopausal status. United States, 2015image icon1Significant quadratic trend by how much symbicort cost menopausal status (p <.

0.05).NOTES. Women were postmenopausal if they had gone without a menstrual cycle for more than 1 year or were in surgical menopause after the removal of their ovaries. Women were perimenopausal if they no longer had a how much symbicort cost menstrual cycle and their last menstrual cycle was 1 year ago or less. Women were premenopausal if they still had a menstrual cycle. Access data table for Figure 1pdf how much symbicort cost icon.SOURCE.

NCHS, National Health Interview Survey, 2015. The percentage of women aged 40–59 who had trouble falling asleep four times or more in the past week varied by menopausal status.Nearly one in how much symbicort cost five nonpregnant women aged 40–59 had trouble falling asleep four times or more in the past week (19.4%) (Figure 2). The percentage of women in this age group who had trouble falling asleep four times or more in the past week increased from 16.8% among premenopausal women to 24.7% among perimenopausal and 27.1% among postmenopausal women. Postmenopausal women were significantly more likely than premenopausal women to have trouble falling asleep four times or more in the past week. Figure 2 how much symbicort cost.

Percentage of nonpregnant women aged 40–59 who had trouble falling asleep four times or more in the past week, by menopausal status. United States, 2015image how much symbicort cost icon1Significant linear trend by menopausal status (p <. 0.05).NOTES. Women were postmenopausal if they had gone without a menstrual cycle for more than 1 year or were in surgical menopause after the removal of their ovaries. Women were perimenopausal if they no longer had a menstrual cycle and their last menstrual cycle was 1 year ago or less how much symbicort cost.

Women were premenopausal if they still had a menstrual cycle. Access data table for Figure 2pdf icon.SOURCE how much symbicort cost. NCHS, National Health Interview Survey, 2015. The percentage of women aged 40–59 who had trouble staying asleep four times or more in the past week varied by menopausal status.More than one in four nonpregnant women aged 40–59 had trouble staying asleep four times or more in the past week how much symbicort cost (26.7%) (Figure 3). The percentage of women aged 40–59 who had trouble staying asleep four times or more in the past week increased from 23.7% among premenopausal, to 30.8% among perimenopausal, and to 35.9% among postmenopausal women.

Postmenopausal women were significantly more likely than premenopausal women to have trouble staying asleep four times or more in the past week. Figure 3 how much symbicort cost. Percentage of nonpregnant women aged 40–59 who had trouble staying asleep four times or more in the past week, by menopausal status. United States, 2015image icon1Significant linear trend by menopausal status (p how much symbicort cost <. 0.05).NOTES.

Women were postmenopausal if they had gone without a menstrual cycle for more than 1 year or were in surgical menopause after the removal of their ovaries. Women were perimenopausal if how much symbicort cost they no longer had a menstrual cycle and their last menstrual cycle was 1 year ago or less. Women were premenopausal if they still had a menstrual cycle. Access data how much symbicort cost table for Figure 3pdf icon.SOURCE. NCHS, National Health Interview Survey, 2015.

The percentage of women aged 40–59 who did not wake up feeling well rested 4 days or more in the past week varied by menopausal status.Nearly one in two nonpregnant women aged 40–59 did not wake up feeling well rested 4 days or more in the past week (48.9%) (Figure 4). The percentage of women in this age group who did not wake up feeling well rested 4 days or more in how much symbicort cost the past week increased from 47.0% among premenopausal women to 49.9% among perimenopausal and 55.1% among postmenopausal women. Postmenopausal women were significantly more likely than premenopausal women to not wake up feeling well rested 4 days or more in the past week. Figure 4 how much symbicort cost. Percentage of nonpregnant women aged 40–59 who did not wake up feeling well rested 4 days or more in the past week, by menopausal status.

United States, 2015image icon1Significant linear trend by menopausal status (p <. 0.05).NOTES. Women were postmenopausal if they had gone without a menstrual cycle for more than 1 year or were in surgical menopause after the removal of their ovaries. Women were perimenopausal if they no longer had a menstrual cycle and their last menstrual cycle was 1 year ago or less. Women were premenopausal if they still had a menstrual cycle.

Access data table for Figure 4pdf icon.SOURCE. NCHS, National Health Interview Survey, 2015. SummaryThis report describes sleep duration and sleep quality among U.S. Nonpregnant women aged 40–59 by menopausal status. Perimenopausal women were most likely to sleep less than 7 hours, on average, in a 24-hour period compared with premenopausal and postmenopausal women.

In contrast, postmenopausal women were most likely to have poor-quality sleep. A greater percentage of postmenopausal women had frequent trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, and not waking well rested compared with premenopausal women. The percentage of perimenopausal women with poor-quality sleep was between the percentages for the other two groups in all three categories. Sleep duration changes with advancing age (4), but sleep duration and quality are also influenced by concurrent changes in women’s reproductive hormone levels (5). Because sleep is critical for optimal health and well-being (6), the findings in this report highlight areas for further research and targeted health promotion.

DefinitionsMenopausal status. A three-level categorical variable was created from a series of questions that asked women. 1) “How old were you when your periods or menstrual cycles started?. €. 2) “Do you still have periods or menstrual cycles?.

€. 3) “When did you have your last period or menstrual cycle?. €. And 4) “Have you ever had both ovaries removed, either as part of a hysterectomy or as one or more separate surgeries?. € Women were postmenopausal if they a) had gone without a menstrual cycle for more than 1 year or b) were in surgical menopause after the removal of their ovaries.

Women were perimenopausal if they a) no longer had a menstrual cycle and b) their last menstrual cycle was 1 year ago or less. Premenopausal women still had a menstrual cycle.Not waking feeling well rested. Determined by respondents who answered 3 days or less on the questionnaire item asking, “In the past week, on how many days did you wake up feeling well rested?. €Short sleep duration. Determined by respondents who answered 6 hours or less on the questionnaire item asking, “On average, how many hours of sleep do you get in a 24-hour period?.

€Trouble falling asleep. Determined by respondents who answered four times or more on the questionnaire item asking, “In the past week, how many times did you have trouble falling asleep?. €Trouble staying asleep. Determined by respondents who answered four times or more on the questionnaire item asking, “In the past week, how many times did you have trouble staying asleep?. € Data source and methodsData from the 2015 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) were used for this analysis.

NHIS is a multipurpose health survey conducted continuously throughout the year by the National Center for Health Statistics. Interviews are conducted in person in respondents’ homes, but follow-ups to complete interviews may be conducted over the telephone. Data for this analysis came from the Sample Adult core and cancer supplement sections of the 2015 NHIS. For more information about NHIS, including the questionnaire, visit the NHIS website.All analyses used weights to produce national estimates. Estimates on sleep duration and quality in this report are nationally representative of the civilian, noninstitutionalized nonpregnant female population aged 40–59 living in households across the United States.

The sample design is described in more detail elsewhere (7). Point estimates and their estimated variances were calculated using SUDAAN software (8) to account for the complex sample design of NHIS. Linear and quadratic trend tests of the estimated proportions across menopausal status were tested in SUDAAN via PROC DESCRIPT using the POLY option. Differences between percentages were evaluated using two-sided significance tests at the 0.05 level. About the authorAnjel Vahratian is with the National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Health Interview Statistics.

The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Lindsey Black in the preparation of this report. ReferencesFord ES. Habitual sleep duration and predicted 10-year cardiovascular risk using the pooled cohort risk equations among US adults. J Am Heart Assoc 3(6):e001454. 2014.Ford ES, Wheaton AG, Chapman DP, Li C, Perry GS, Croft JB.

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Suggested citationVahratian A. Sleep duration and quality among women aged 40–59, by menopausal status. NCHS data brief, no 286. Hyattsville, MD. National Center for Health Statistics.

2017.Copyright informationAll material appearing in this report is in the public domain and may be reproduced or copied without permission. Citation as to source, however, is appreciated.National Center for Health StatisticsCharles J. Rothwell, M.S., M.B.A., DirectorJennifer H. Madans, Ph.D., Associate Director for ScienceDivision of Health Interview StatisticsMarcie L. Cynamon, DirectorStephen J.

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Women were premenopausal if they still had a menstrual cycle. Access data table for buy symbicort from canada Figure 1pdf icon.SOURCE. NCHS, National Health Interview Survey, 2015.

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Women were premenopausal if they still had a menstrual cycle. Access data table buy symbicort from canada for Figure 2pdf icon.SOURCE. NCHS, National Health Interview Survey, 2015.

The percentage of women aged 40–59 who had trouble staying asleep buy symbicort from canada four times or more in the past week varied by menopausal status.More than one in four nonpregnant women aged 40–59 had trouble staying asleep four times or more in the past week (26.7%) (Figure 3). The percentage of women aged 40–59 who had trouble staying asleep four times or more in the past week increased from 23.7% among premenopausal, to 30.8% among perimenopausal, and to 35.9% among postmenopausal women. Postmenopausal women were significantly more likely than premenopausal women to have trouble staying asleep four times or more in the past week.

Figure 3 buy symbicort from canada. Percentage of nonpregnant women aged 40–59 who had trouble staying asleep four times or more in the past week, by menopausal status. United States, buy symbicort from canada 2015image icon1Significant linear trend by menopausal status (p <.

0.05).NOTES. Women were postmenopausal if they had gone without a menstrual cycle for more than 1 year or were in surgical menopause after the removal of their ovaries. Women were perimenopausal if they no longer had a menstrual cycle and their last menstrual cycle was 1 year buy symbicort from canada ago or less.

Women were premenopausal if they still had a menstrual cycle. Access data table for Figure 3pdf buy symbicort from canada icon.SOURCE. NCHS, National Health Interview Survey, 2015.

The percentage of women aged 40–59 who did not wake up feeling well rested 4 days or more in the past week varied by menopausal status.Nearly one in two nonpregnant women aged 40–59 did not wake up feeling well rested 4 days or more in the past week (48.9%) (Figure 4). The percentage of women in this age group who did not wake up feeling well rested 4 days or more in the past week increased from 47.0% buy symbicort from canada among premenopausal women to 49.9% among perimenopausal and 55.1% among postmenopausal women. Postmenopausal women were significantly more likely than premenopausal women to not wake up feeling well rested 4 days or more in the past week.

Figure 4 buy symbicort from canada. Percentage of nonpregnant women aged 40–59 who did not wake up feeling well rested 4 days or more in the past week, by menopausal status. United States, 2015image icon1Significant linear trend by menopausal status (p <.

0.05).NOTES. Women were postmenopausal if they had gone without a menstrual cycle for more than 1 year or were in surgical menopause after the removal of their ovaries. Women were perimenopausal if they no longer had a menstrual cycle and their last menstrual cycle was 1 year ago or less.

Women were premenopausal if they still had a menstrual cycle. Access data table for Figure 4pdf icon.SOURCE. NCHS, National Health Interview Survey, 2015.

SummaryThis report describes sleep duration and sleep quality among U.S. Nonpregnant women aged 40–59 by menopausal status. Perimenopausal women were most likely to sleep less than 7 hours, on average, in a 24-hour period compared with premenopausal and postmenopausal women.

In contrast, postmenopausal women were most likely to have poor-quality sleep. A greater percentage of postmenopausal women had frequent trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, and not waking well rested compared with premenopausal women. The percentage of perimenopausal women with poor-quality sleep was between the percentages for the other two groups in all three categories.

Sleep duration changes with advancing age (4), but sleep duration and quality are also influenced by concurrent changes in women’s reproductive hormone levels (5). Because sleep is critical for optimal health and well-being (6), the findings in this report highlight areas for further research and targeted health promotion. DefinitionsMenopausal status.

A three-level categorical variable was created from a series of questions that asked women. 1) “How old were you when your periods or menstrual cycles started?. €.

2) “Do you still have periods or menstrual cycles?. €. 3) “When did you have your last period or menstrual cycle?.

€. And 4) “Have you ever had both ovaries removed, either as part of a hysterectomy or as one or more separate surgeries?. € Women were postmenopausal if they a) had gone without a menstrual cycle for more than 1 year or b) were in surgical menopause after the removal of their ovaries.

Women were perimenopausal if they a) no longer had a menstrual cycle and b) their last menstrual cycle was 1 year ago or less. Premenopausal women still had a menstrual cycle.Not waking feeling well rested. Determined by respondents who answered 3 days or less on the questionnaire item asking, “In the past week, on how many days did you wake up feeling well rested?.

€Short sleep duration. Determined by respondents who answered 6 hours or less on the questionnaire item asking, “On average, how many hours of sleep do you get in a 24-hour period?. €Trouble falling asleep.

Determined by respondents who answered four times or more on the questionnaire item asking, “In the past week, how many times did you have trouble falling asleep?. €Trouble staying asleep. Determined by respondents who answered four times or more on the questionnaire item asking, “In the past week, how many times did you have trouble staying asleep?.

€ Data source and methodsData from the 2015 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) were used for this analysis. NHIS is a multipurpose health survey conducted continuously throughout the year by the National Center for Health Statistics. Interviews are conducted in person in respondents’ homes, but follow-ups to complete interviews may be conducted over the telephone.

Data for this analysis came from the Sample Adult core and cancer supplement sections of the 2015 NHIS. For more information about NHIS, including the questionnaire, visit the NHIS website.All analyses used weights to produce national estimates. Estimates on sleep duration and quality in this report are nationally representative of the civilian, noninstitutionalized nonpregnant female population aged 40–59 living in households across the United States.

The sample design is described in more detail elsewhere (7). Point estimates and their estimated variances were calculated using SUDAAN software (8) to account for the complex sample design of NHIS. Linear and quadratic trend tests of the estimated proportions across menopausal status were tested in SUDAAN via PROC DESCRIPT using the POLY option.

Differences between percentages were evaluated using two-sided significance tests at the 0.05 level. About the authorAnjel Vahratian is with the National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Health Interview Statistics. The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Lindsey Black in the preparation of this report.

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Blumberg, Ph.D., Associate Director for Science.

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This property means that pZCs could help revolutionize the delivery of medicines of all sorts, from familiar oral antibiotics to new classes of delicate protein therapeutics."Despite the common experience of swallowing medications orally, there is a huge number of therapies that are not available orally," says Khatcher Margossian, the lead author of the study and a candidate for a dual M.D./Ph.D. From Rush Medical College and the UMass Amherst Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, respectively. This is because there are many drugs that can't withstand the stomach's harshly acidic environment. Two ways symbicort generic cost around this problem are to either inject or implant medications.

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Not only will these materials allow clinicians to more efficiently deliver the right dosages of drugs, but they will vastly increase the number of medications that can be taken orally. "This is a foundational technology that can alter how we treat disease," says Margossian. "We hope that our work will make its way into clinicians' hands and help them save lives."This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Story Source.

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Those specific "regulatory" proteins are called transcription factors, and they do their thing by binding to specific DNA sequences at just the right time.Scientists have known that mutations to three cardiac transcription factors -- GATA4, NKX2-5 and TBX5 -- lead to a range of congenital heart disease states. Researchers have thought that an inability of these mutated genes to "turn on" cardiac genes is what led to heart disease.Now, the lab of Frank Conlon, PhD, professor of biology and genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discovered there's more to the story. It involves non-cardiac genes, as well as answering a question researchers have struggled with for years.Aside from the aforementioned transcription factors, past research showed that a protein complex subunit called CHD4 seems to play a major role in congenital heart disease. Deleting it causes embryonic death in animal models.

Mutations to it cause major problems with proteins involved in skeletal and muscle development.Turns out, CHD4 is essential for numerous developmental events, such as ensuring proper timing of the switch from stem cell lineages to differentiated cell types -- that is, the moment when stem cells turn into, say, heart cells or leg muscle cells. CDH4 also is essential for maintaining cell differentiation -- keeping heart cells healthy heart cells. And CDH4 is a player in activating cellular processes to deal with DNA damage.Yet, CHD4 cannot bind DNA. It needs to be brought to a specific location, or genetic loci, of a cardiac gene to do its things.

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