What The Study Did: The likelihood of having obesity or eating disorders was compared between sexual and gender minority children ages 9 to 10 and other children in this study.
Authors: Natasha A. Schvey, Ph.D., of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5152)
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What The Viewpoint Says: This Viewpoint reviews the potential neurologic consequences of any restriction of blood flow or oxygen to the brain and calls for an examination of the safety and appropriateness of the use of neck restraints by law enforcement.
Authors: Altaf Saadi, M.D., M.Sc., of Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.4669)
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What The Study Did: This observational study examined whether lasting change in sweetened beverage prices or the volume sold was associated with the implementation and repeal of a sweetened beverage tax in Cook County, Illinois, where Chicago is.
Authors: Lisa M. Powell, Ph.D., of the University of Illinois Chicago, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.31083)
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What The Study Did: Researchers looked at whether health outcomes of white citizens living in the richest U.S. counties were better than that of average individuals in other developed countries.
Authors: Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7484)
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What The Study Did: Researchers used data from a large national health insurer in the U.S. to examine whether hospital outcomes for patients with COVID-19 are improving.
Authors: David A. Asch, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.8193)
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What The Study Did: In this systematic review of current evidence on air contamination with SARS-CoV-2 in hospital settings, the air close to and distant from patients with COVID-19 was frequently contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 RNA; however, few of these samples contained viable viruses. High viral loads found in toilets and bathrooms, staff areas and public hallways suggest that these areas should be carefully considered.
Authors: Gabriel Birgand, Ph.D., of the Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Nantes in France, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.33232)
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What TheViewpoint Says: This Viewpoint discusses initiatives of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Oncology Center of Excellence to address COVID-19-related challenges faced by patients with cancer and the health care professionals who provide cancer treatment.
Authors: Jennifer J. Gao, M.D., of the Oncology Center of Excellence at the FDA in Silver Spring, Maryland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.6783)
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What The Study Did: This report of maternal viral load, transplacental antibody transmission and placental pathology in 127 pregnancies during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic provides needed data about maternal viral control, reduced transplacental transfer of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and lack of vertical transmission in mother-newborn pairs.
Authors: Andrea G. Edlow, M.D., M.Sc., of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.30455)
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What The Study Did: In this modeling study of simulated adults living in homeless shelters, daily symptom screening with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of individuals who had positive symptom screening paired with management at a nonhospital care site of people with mild to moderate COVID-19 was associated with a substantial decrease in infections and lowered costs over four months compared with no intervention across a wide range of epidemic scenarios.
Authors: Kenneth A. Freedberg, M.D., M.Sc., of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.28195)
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What The Study Did: Researchers examined the use of COVID-19-specific coding, the transition from legacy coding and the accuracy of the COVID-19-specific code using SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing as the reference standard.
Authors: Ning Rosenthal, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., of Premier Healthcare Solutions in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.20323)
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What The Viewpoint Says: Observations about health system performance during the COVID-19 pandemic are offered in this Viewpoint, with an emphasis on system cohesion and 2 of 3 levels of health care described earlier by the National Academy of Medicine: health care organizational capabilities and the environment of care.
Authors: Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., of the Discovery, Education and Affiliate Networks (DEAN), Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C., is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.17392)
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What The Study Did: Researchers estimated excess deaths in California between March and August during the COVID-19 pandemic by age, sex, race/ethnicity and educational level. California has a population of more than 39 million, which is about 12% of the U.S. population of 328 million.
Authors: Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Ph.D., M.D., M.A.S., of the University of California, SanFrancisco, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7578)
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What The Study Did: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted health care delivery in the United State, and researchers in this study examined changes in total U.S. retail pharmacy sales and sales of buprenorphine products with a U.S. Food and Drug Administration–approved indication for treat- ment of opioid use disorder.
Authors: Thuy D. Nguyen, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7497)
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What The Study Did: Researchers assessed the acceptability of COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the U.S. public.
Authors: Emily A. Largent, J.D., Ph.D., R.N., of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.33324)
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What The Viewpoint Says: This Viewpoint uses Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data to compare the COVID-19 mortality rate in 2020 with prior leading causes of death (heart disease, cancer, lung disease and injury) to put into context the cost of the infection in loss of life in the United States.
Authors: Steven H. Woolf, M.D., M.P.H., of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.24865)
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What The Study Did: Researchers used nationally representative survey data to estimate the proportion of women of reproductive age in the United States who have ever attempted to end an unwanted pregnancy on their own without medical assistance.
Authors: Lauren Ralph, Ph.D., of the University of California San Francisco, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.29245)
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What The Study Did: The rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection among patients in Italy receiving antitumor treatment was evaluated in this study.
Authors: Carlo Aschele, M.D., Ph.D., of Ospedale Sant’Andrea in La Spezia, Italy, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.6778)
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What The Viewpoint Says: The consequences of COVID-19–related social distancing on health behaviors that may result in better or worse outcomes for patients with cancer are explored in this Viewpoint.
Authors: Rebecca A. Ferrer, Ph.D., of the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.6786)
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What The Case Report Says: A case of COVID-19 with severe ocular neuropathy and panuveitis (inflammation) is reported in this article.
Authors: Jean Marc Perone, M.D., of Metz-Thionville Regional Hospital Center, Lorraine University, Mercy Hospital in Metz, France, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2020.5695)
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What The Study Did: This study quantified changes in the use of intravitreal (IVT) anti-vascular endothelial growth factors (anti-VEGF), the main treatment for retinal vascular abnormalities, since the COVID-19 pandemic started in France.
Authors: Sophie Billioti de Gage, Pharm.D., P.D., of EPI-PHARE, French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety, French National Health Insurance in Saint-Denis, France, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2020.5594)
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What The Study Did: A retrospective medical record review was done of 148 patients to assess outcomes from early tracheostomy in the airway management of patients with COVID-19 who required mechanical ventilation.
Authors: Paul E. Kwak, M.D., M.M., M.Sc., of NYU Langone Health in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2020.4837)
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What The Study Did: Researchers used publicly available data to examine all-cause excess mortality (the gap between observed and expected deaths) and COVID-19-related mortality during the early period of the pandemic among adults ages 25 to 44.
Authors: Jeremy Samuel Faust, M.D., M.S., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.24243)
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What The Study Did: This observational study examined differences by sex among young people (ages 11 to 24) who experienced nonfatal opioid overdoses.
Authors: Sarah M. Bagley, M.D., M.Sc., of the Boston Medical Center, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.30201)
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What The Study Did: Differences in suicide deaths by race/ethnicity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Maryland were analyzed in this observational study.
Authors: Paul Sasha Nestadt, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.3938)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated whether Parkinson disease was associated with an increased risk of suicide among a large group of patients in Taiwan.
Authors: Pei-Chen Lee, Ph.D., of the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences in Taipei, Taiwan, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.4001)
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What The Study Did: The association between ultraviolet (UV) light exposure and the risk of melanoma in individuals with skin of color was examined with a review of the results of 13 studies.
Authors: Adewole S. Adamson, M.D., M.P.P., of the University of Texas at Austin, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2020.4616)
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What The Study Did: This study estimates how common nicotine vaping is, its perceived harm and the accessibility of nicotine vaping products among U.S. adolescents from 2017 to 2020.
Authors: Richard Miech, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5667)
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What The Viewpoint Says: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has brought renewed urgency to the question of what constitutes an aerosol-generating procedure. Four factors that explain transmission risk during aerosol-generating medical procedures are discussed in this article.
Authors: Michael Klompas, M.D., M.P.H., of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2020.6643)
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What The Viewpoint Says: This Viewpoint discusses individual- and system-level barriers and solutions for people with serious mental illness to access COVID-19 vaccination when it is available.
Authors: Nicola Warren, M.B.B.S., of the University of Queensland and Metro South Addiction and Mental Health in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.4396)
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What The Study Did: Opioid use disorder treatment during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, including medication fills, outpatient visits and urine tests among privately insured individuals, was compared with 2019 in this study.
Authors: Haiden A. Huskamp, Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.21512)
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What The Study Did: Outpatient buprenorphine dispensing patterns in Texas before and after the Drug Enforcement Administration temporarily relaxed outpatient buprenorphine prescribing regulations in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic were examined in this study.
Authors: Jessica Duncan Cance, M.P.H., Ph.D., of RTI International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.22154)
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Bottom Line: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening for hepatitis B virus infection in adolescents and adults at increased risk for infection. The USPSTF routinely makes recommendations about the effectiveness of preventive care services and this statement is consistent with the 2014 recommendation and strengthened by new evidence from trials and cohort studies reporting that antiviral therapy reduces risk of mortality and hepatocellular carcinoma and improves intermediate outcomes that are consistently associated with better health outcomes.
(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.22980)
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What The Study Did: The findings of this study suggest households will continue to be a significant venue for transmission of SARS-CoV-2 because people with suspected or confirmed infections are being told to isolate at home.
Authors: Zachary J. Madewell, of the University of Florida in Gainesville, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.31756)
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What The Study Did: This study describes the manifestations and severity of disease among infants with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Authors: Fatima Kakkar, M.D., M.P.H., of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine in Montreal, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.30470)
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What The Viewpoint Says: This Viewpoint discusses the need to account for neonates and children, who are typically disproportionally impacted during pandemics, by implementing hospital resource allocation protocols that ensure equity across the life span.
Authors: Monica E. Lemmon, M.D., of the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5215)
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What The Study Did: Researchers estimated the associations of political party affiliation with physical distancing behaviors among young adults, a population with high rates of COVID-19.
Authors: Adam M. Leventhal, Ph.D., of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6898)
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What The Study Did: The diversity of speakers who discussed COVID-19 and other content on three popular American cable news networks (Fox News Network, CNN and MSNBC) was investigated in this study.
Authors: Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, was the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6285)
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What The Study Did: Patients with COVID-19 who were treated in U.S. hospitals are described in this study that examines risks factors associated with in-hospital death.
Authors: Ning Rosenthal, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., of Premier Applied Sciences in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.29058)
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What The Study Did: This survey study assessed attitudes of the German public regarding COVID-19 health communications with varying degrees of scientific uncertainty.
Authors: Odette Wegwarth, Ph.D., of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.32335)
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What The Study Did: A diagnostic study, this describes an online tool created with actual SARS-CoV-2 virus copy number data to help policy makers understand how pooled testing compares with single-sample testing in different populations.
Authors: Michael B. Datto, M.D., Ph.D., of the Duke Health System Clinical Laboratories in Durham, North Carolina, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.31517)
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What The Study Did: This study investigated how patients with specific types of cancer are at risk for COVID-19 infection and its adverse outcomes and whether there are cancer-specific race disparities for COVID-19 infection.
Authors: Nathan A. Berger, M.D., and Rong Xu, Ph.D., of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, are the corresponding authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.6178)
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What The Article Says: This Viewpoint discusses the need for scientific rigor in studies related to COVID-19 and presents study design recommendations and methodologies that should be incorporated to ensure that findings are reliable and reproducible.
Authors: Yu Shyr, Ph.D., of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.6639)
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What The Study Did: This case series describes the mucocutaneous findings seen in children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children during the height of the COVID-19) pandemic in New York City.
Authors: Vikash S. Oza, M.D., of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2020.4372)
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What The Viewpoint Says: This Viewpoint describes the planned Healthy Brain and Child Development Study, which will investigate the associations of parental substance abuse, COVID-19 and exposure to health disparities with their children’s health and well-being.
Authors: Michelle P. Freund, Ph.D., of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.3803)
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What The Study Did: Data from the United Network for Organ Sharing database were used to examine variation at the state level in waitlist and transplant outcomes among patients listed for heart transplantation from 2011 to 2016.
Authors: Alexandros Briasoulis, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.28459)
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What The Study Did: Physicians were surveyed to examine the association between burnout and thoughts of suicide and self-reported medical errors after accounting for depression.
Authors: Mickey T. Trockel, M.D., Ph.D., of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.28780)
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What The Study Did: Researchers investigated whether children and adolescents diagnosed with depression had an increased risk of subsequent physical health problems and premature death in this observational study.
Authors: Sarah E. Bergen, Ph.D., of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.3786)
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What The Study Did: Long-term follow-up of a randomized clinical trial was conducted to compare weight loss and quality of life among patients with morbid obesity who had laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy or laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.
Authors: Paulina Salminen, M.D., Ph.D., of Turku University Hospital in Turku, Finland, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2020.5666)
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What The Study Did: Considering when health care resources need to be prioritized during special times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers in this observational study looked at whether delaying radical prostatectomy surgery for up to six months for high-risk prostate cancer was associated with worse outcomes.
Authors: Leilei Xia, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.28320)
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What The Article Says: This perspective is that of a nursing researcher turned volunteer in a COVID-19 vaccine trial. She considers the experience of study participants and how clinicians will need to prepare their patients for the vaccine’s possible adverse effects.
Authors: Kristen R. Choi, Ph.D., R.N., of the University of California, Los Angeles, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7087)
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What The Study Did: The findings of this study suggest that mother-to-infant transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during rooming-in practice is rare, provided adequate droplet and contact precautions are taken.
Authors: Lorenza Pugni, M.D., Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Neonatology and NICU, in Milan, Italy, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5086)
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What The Study Did: Using data from the Colorado Immunization Information System, this study suggests vaccination uptake in children and adolescents has decreased in Colorado since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in that state.
Authors: Sean O’Leary, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.4733)
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What The Article Says: Telehealth is a vital strategy to bridge pediatric physical and mental health care gaps, potentially reducing health care disparities.
Authors: Deepa U. Menon, M.B.B.S., and Harolyn M.E. Belcher, M.D., M.H.S., of the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, are the authors.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5097)
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What The Study Did: Lyrics from the most popular rap songs from the past two decades were analyzed to see if references to anxiety, depression, suicide and mental health struggles have become more common.
Authors: Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5155)
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What The Study Did: This observational study assessed the rate of appendix perforations during the COVID-19 pandemic at a children’s hospital compared with 2019.
Authors: Rick Place, M.D., M.H.A., of Inova Fairfax Medical Campus in Falls Church, Virginia, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.27948)
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What The Study Did: COVID-19 outcomes based on race and ethnicity were compared in this observational study of patients in a large health system in New York City, and the association of any disparities with coexisting medical conditions and neighborhood characteristics also was assessed.
Authors: Gbenga Ogedegbe, M.D., M.P.H., of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.26881)
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What The Study Did: This survey study examines changes in the use of e-cigarettes by those 24 years old and younger during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Ph.D., of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.27572)
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What The Study Did: Emerging changes in overdose-related cardiac arrests in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic are described in this observational study using a large national emergency medical services database.
Authors: Joseph Friedman, M.P.H., of the University of California, Los Angeles, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.4218)
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What The Study Did: State crisis standards of care (CSC) guidelines in the U.S. allocate scarce health care resources among patients, and this study examined the implications of these guidelines for patients with cancer, including allocation methods, cancer-related categorical exclusions and deprioritizations, and provisions for blood products and palliative care.
Authors: Gregory A. Abel, M.D., M.P.H., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.6159)
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What The Study Did: The distribution of race/ethnicity among cases of COVID-19]-associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children reported to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is described in this observational study.
Authors: Ellen H. Lee, M.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in Long Island City, New York, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.30280)
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What The Study Did: This observational study assessed whether receiving unemployment insurance is associated with lower health-related social needs, better health care access and better mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: Seth A. Berkowitz, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the corresponding author.
(doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7048)
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