{"title":"Authorship Disputes in Scholarly Biomedical Publications and Trust in the Research Institution.","authors":"Itamar Ashkenazi, Oded Olsha","doi":"10.5041/RMMJ.10503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10503","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>When authorship disputes arise in academic publishing, research institutions may be asked to investigate the circumstances. We evaluated the association between the prevalence of misattributed authorship and trust in the institution involved.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We measured trust using a newly validated Opinion on the Institution's Research and Publication Values (OIRPV) scale (range 1-4). Mayer and Davies' Organizational Trust for Management Instrument served as control. Association between publication misconduct, gender, institution type, policies, and OIRPV-derived Trust Scores were evaluated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 197 responses were analyzed. Increased reporting of authorship misconduct, such as gift authorship, author displacement within the authors' order on the byline, and ghost authorship, were associated with low Trust Scores (P<0.001). Respondents from institutions whose administration had made known (declared or published) their policy on authorship in academic publications awarded the highest Trust Scores (median 3.06, interquartile range 2.25 to 3.56). Only 17.8% favored their administration as the best authority to investigate authorship dispute honestly. Of those who did not list the administration as their preferred option for resolving disputes, 58.6% (95/162) provided a Trust Score <2.5, which conveys mistrust in the institution.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Increased reporting of publication misconducts such as gift authorship, author displacement within the order of the authors' byline, and ghost authorship was associated with lower Trust Scores in the research institutions. Institutions that made their policies known were awarded the highest Trust Scores. Our results question whether the research institutions' administrations are the appropriate authority for clarifying author disputes in all cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":46408,"journal":{"name":"Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal","volume":"14 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10393470/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10026413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Risk of Rectal Temperature Measurement in Neutropenia.","authors":"Judith Olchowski, Noa Zimhony-Nissim, Lior Nesher, Leonid Barski, Elli Rosenberg, Iftach Sagy","doi":"10.5041/RMMJ.10501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10501","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Avoiding rectal thermometry is recommended in patients with neutropenic fever. Permeability of the anal mucosa may result in a higher risk of bacteremia in these patients. Still, this recommendation is based on only a few studies.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This retrospective study included all individuals admitted to our emergency department during 2014-2017 with afebrile (body temperature <38.3°C) neutropenia (neutrophil count <500 cells/microL) who were over the age of 18. Patients were stratified by the presence or absence of a rectal temperature measurement. The primary outcome was bacteremia during the first five days of index hospitalization; the secondary outcome was in-hospital mortality.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study included 40 patients with rectal temperature measurements and 407 patients whose temperatures were only measured orally. Among patients with oral temperature measurements, 10.6% had bacteremia, compared to 5.1% among patients who had rectal temperature measurements. Rectal temperature measurement was not associated with bacteremia, neither in non-matched (odds ratio [OR] 0.36, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.07-1.77) nor in matched cohort analyses (OR 0.37, 95% CI 0.04-3.29). In-hospital mortality was also similar between the groups.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Patients with neutropenia who had their temperature taken using a rectal thermometer did not experience a higher frequency of events of documented bacteremia or increased in-hospital mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":46408,"journal":{"name":"Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal","volume":"14 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10393468/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10334921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Can Jewish and Non-Jewish People Collaborate to Improve Healthcare in the US? Considering Community, Autonomy, and Solidarity.","authors":"Zackary Berger","doi":"10.5041/RMMJ.10502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10502","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The coronavirus 2019 (COVID) pandemic has highlighted the ways in which municipal, state, and Federal agencies in the USA have failed to address the inequities of present-day health systems. As alternative organizing centers outside these agencies, local communities are potentially situated to redress the inequities of present-day health systems in a collaborative manner that demonstrates solidarity by supplementing a purely scientific model of medicine and healthcare. In the mid-twentieth century, the Black Panthers, a revolutionary African American nationalist organization that focused on socialism and self-defense, introduced highly influential free clinics, which sought to bring expertise to the Black community on their own terms. This required bringing the benefits of biomedicine to those who customarily had not seen them. By extension, their approach raises questions regarding community- and expertise-centered approaches for the Jewish community: how is it engaged in healthcare for itself (in its diverse subcategories) and for others? Moreover, understanding how the Jewish community has been ill-served by present-day health-care systems might spur Jewish institutions to reimagine how healthcare should work.</p>","PeriodicalId":46408,"journal":{"name":"Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal","volume":"14 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10393467/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9956971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abid Awisat, Shiri Keret, Amal Silawy, Lisa Kaly, Itzhak Rosner, Michael Rozenbaum, Nina Boulman, Aniela Shouval, Doron Rimar, Gleb Slobodin
{"title":"Giant Cell Arteritis: State of the Art in Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Treatment.","authors":"Abid Awisat, Shiri Keret, Amal Silawy, Lisa Kaly, Itzhak Rosner, Michael Rozenbaum, Nina Boulman, Aniela Shouval, Doron Rimar, Gleb Slobodin","doi":"10.5041/RMMJ.10496","DOIUrl":"10.5041/RMMJ.10496","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most prevalent subtype of vasculitis in adults. In recent years, there has been substantial improvement in the diagnosis and treatment of GCA, mainly attributed to the introduction of highly sensitive diagnostic tools, incorporation of modern imaging modalities for diagnosis and monitoring of large-vessel vasculitis, and introduction of highly effective novel biological therapies that have revolutionized the field of GCA. This article reviews state-of-the-art approaches for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment options of GCA.</p>","PeriodicalId":46408,"journal":{"name":"Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal","volume":"14 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147399/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9373334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, Tal Gazitt, Joy Feld, Devy Zisman
{"title":"Implementation of Calcium and Vitamin D Supplementation in Glucocorticosteroid-Induced Osteoporosis Prevention Guidelines-Insights from Rheumatologists.","authors":"Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, Tal Gazitt, Joy Feld, Devy Zisman","doi":"10.5041/RMMJ.10497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10497","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Glucocorticosteroid-induced osteoporosis (GIO) is the most common cause of secondary osteoporosis but is underdiagnosed and undertreated. Our aim in this communication is to review the literature on the implementation of current GIO prevention practices such as calcium and vitamin D supplementation with emphasis on the rheumatologists' perspective relating to the need for development of novel GIO educational prevention measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":46408,"journal":{"name":"Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal","volume":"14 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147402/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9373336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Basic Lessons From India on Vaccination [Letter to the Editor].","authors":"Thorakkal Shamim","doi":"10.5041/RMMJ.10499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10499","url":null,"abstract":"The personal reflections of Peter Hotez regarding the triple threats of illness, antiscience, and anti-Semitism indicate a shocking state of affairs, reveal¬ing the dark and sinister element of antivaccine activism which must be surmounted. This letter addresses basic lessons on vaccination from India in a nutshell.","PeriodicalId":46408,"journal":{"name":"Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal","volume":"14 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147403/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9384425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Letter From Dr. Thorakkal Shamim.","authors":"Peter J Hotez","doi":"10.5041/RMMJ.10500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10500","url":null,"abstract":"Dr. Thorakkal Shamim has written a very interesting letter and comment. It is important to hear details about vaccine hesitancy in different countries or regions.","PeriodicalId":46408,"journal":{"name":"Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal","volume":"14 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147397/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9366586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biological Therapies in Inflammatory Myopathies.","authors":"Abd El Haleem Natour, Shaye Kivity","doi":"10.5041/RMMJ.10495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10495","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a rare group of disorders that feature progressive immune-mediated skeletal muscle destruction along with skin, lung, and joint involvement. Management of IIMs necessitates glucocorticoid therapy followed by conventional steroid-sparing agents to control disease activity. In the settings of refractory myositis or life-threatening manifestations, e.g. lung involvement or oropharyngeal dysphagia, second-line therapies are needed to minimize disease burden, avoid end-organ damage and steroid toxicity, and decrease mortality. These therapies may include biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs), and to a lesser extent, targeted synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (TSD). This article reviews the current use of bDMARDs, e.g. intravenous immunoglobulin and rituximab, and a TSD-Janus kinase inhibitors (JAKI)-along with their indications, efficacy, and safety in managing IIM.</p>","PeriodicalId":46408,"journal":{"name":"Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal","volume":"14 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147398/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9373332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, Jorge Armando Gonzalez-Chapa, Marina Barguil Macêdo, Christian Lood
{"title":"The Emerging Role of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in the Pathogenesis of Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies.","authors":"Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, Jorge Armando Gonzalez-Chapa, Marina Barguil Macêdo, Christian Lood","doi":"10.5041/RMMJ.10493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10493","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Increasing evidence points towards mitochondria as crucial players in the initiation and progression of auto-immune and degenerative disorders, to which impaired cell metabolism is but a facet of the subjacent etiopathogenesis. This review aims to introduce the reader to essential concepts of mitochondrial abnormalities in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM), underscoring inclusion-body myositis and dermatomyositis. Far surpassing the initial simplistic view of being responsible for energy generation, mitochondria have gathered attention regarding their role in inflammatory processes, being able to fuel autoimmunity, as shown by the presence of anti-mitochondrial antibodies (AMAs) in up to 10% of IIM patients. As cellular respiration takes place, mitochondrial metabolites might help to shape the pro-inflammatory milieu in affected muscle, beyond generating reactive oxygen species, which are well-recognized inducers of damage-associated molecular patterns. A series of mitochondrial components might facilitate the sterile activation of pro-inflammatory cells and the production of several cytokines responsible for enhancing auto-immune responses. Marked variation in the mitochondrial genome has also been reported in IIM patients. As such, we summarize key historical and recent advances linking aberrations and instabilities of mitochondrial DNA to impaired muscle function. Besides discussing mitochondrial dysfunction as an essential part of IIM development, we also highlight possible associations between presence of AMAs and a particular phenotype of IIM, with its own characteristic clinical and radiological pattern. Finally, we present promising treatment approaches targeting mitochondria, while briefly discussing experimental models for gaining deeper insight into the disease process, and ultimately leading to novel drug development.</p>","PeriodicalId":46408,"journal":{"name":"Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal","volume":"14 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147396/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9373333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dual Biologic Therapy in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis.","authors":"Victoria Furer, Ori Elkayam","doi":"10.5041/RMMJ.10494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10494","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Treatment with biological agents has become standard of care in treatment of immune-mediated diseases (IMD), including rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. Yet, a significant proportion of patients experience loss of response to biologics, need treatment escalation, or develop side effects. During the past decade, new biologic agents with different targeted molecular pathways have been approved for treatment of IMD, introducing the possibility of concomitant dual biologic therapy. The role of dual biologic therapy targeting different inflammatory pathways has become an area of great interest in the field of IMD, addressing the unmet clinical need of patients with refractory diseases and treatment of comorbidities, such as osteoporosis, asthma, atopic dermatitis, and urticaria. Despite the increasing use of biologics as a dual therapy across different indications, there is a paucity of data concerning the safety of the simultaneous use of more than one biological agents. The purpose of this review is to summarize the current literature on the use of dual biologics in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis, addressing the potential adverse effects associated with combination therapy, and highlighting future directions in the use of this novel therapeutic modality.</p>","PeriodicalId":46408,"journal":{"name":"Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal","volume":"14 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147400/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9366588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}