Is it smoke or is it fire
Platypus and Fox #3 - When what we measure creates noise not signal
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Québec Wildfires and Respiratory Emergency Department Visits in Charlottesville, Virginia
The decline in air quality from wildfires is known to have detrimental health impacts locally, but less is known about the effects far from the source. To address this gap, we analyzed visits to the University of Virginia Emergency Department from 2017 to 2023 by examining the impact of elevated PM(2.5) levels on respiratory visits. For this analysis, high exposure days were defined as those with PM(2.5) levels 2 or more standard deviations above the 2017-2023 average, specifically during the...
The Number That Tells You If a Forecast Is Actually Good
Most people evaluate forecasts the wrong way.
The Wrong Features
Platypus & Fox | No. 1
Looking for Ripples
The new year is such an arbitrary marker; it’s a date set on the Gregorian calendar that doesn’t seem grounded in lunar or solar rationale.
Looking for Ripples
Lagom in practice—not too much, not too little, just the right amount of daily intention
My Lagom - Reflections on Enough, Part II
My breaking open
Finding Lagom: The Wisdom of “Just Enough”
Reflections on last week’s lectionary and the art of not overcrowding your life
Seeing the Rising Sun in a Tornado
Starting the rekindling project
A Usability Survey of a Quality Improvement Data Visualization Tool Among Medical Intensive Care Unit Nurses
CONCLUSIONS: The Bundle Board demonstrated good usability among ICU Nurses, who provided substantive feedback for its improvement. These observations may be generalizable to other comparable interventions. Iterative feedback from end-users is vital to developing and implementing a digital health intervention. Our study provides a framework for performing a usability analysis within a specific clinician population and environment.
Distinct type 1 immune networks underlie the severity of restrictive lung disease after COVID-19
The variable origins of persistent breathlessness after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have hindered efforts to decipher the immunopathology of lung sequelae. Here we analyzed hundreds of cellular and molecular features in the context of discrete pulmonary phenotypes to define the systemic immune landscape of post-COVID lung disease. Cluster analysis of lung physiology measures highlighted two phenotypes of restrictive lung disease that differed according to their impaired diffusion and...
Prevalence and associations of insomnia after COVID-19 infection
CONCLUSIONS: Initial and persistent insomnia is common in long COVID. Treatment for insomnia with the use of evidence-based approaches (such as cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia) may best suit this particular post-COVID symptom.
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