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Health Care Sciences & Services
Kathleen Carey, Qian Luo, Avi Dor
Summary: By combining quality indicators, the relationship between medical visit quality and average cost can be explored. The study found that efforts to improve primary health care quality delivered in CHCs do not necessarily require greater costs.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Marjorie K. Leimomi Mala Mau, Nicole Kau'i Baumhofer Merritt, Kamuela Werner, Mary Frances Oneha Oneha
Summary: This study aims to understand the perspectives and insights of NHPI community residents on conducting longitudinal cohort studies aimed at understanding mechanisms of health disparities. The results reveal the importance of health disparities like diabetes in the community and emphasize the potential impact of cohort-type research on generational change in health and well-being through the sharing of new community-derived knowledge.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Deborah Nyirenda, Salla Sariola, Nicola Desmond
Summary: This paper examines the impact of 'rumours' on community engagement and understanding in medical research. It highlights the need for ongoing engagement, critical self-reflection, and decoding the deeper meaning of 'rumours' to address community concerns and enhance informed participation in future health interventions.
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Jacob P. Tanumihardjo, Shari Kuther, Wen Wan, Kathryn E. Gunter, Kelly McGrath, Yolanda O'Neal, Cody Wilkinson, Mengqi Zhu, Christine Packer, Vicki Petersen, Marshall H. Chin
Summary: The study aimed to improve clinical outcomes for patients with type 2 diabetes in a resource-constrained, frontier area through an innovative population health program that integrates medical and social care models. The results showed that the program led to a significant decrease in hemoglobin A1c levels and sustained effectiveness. This suggests that integrating medical and social care models is beneficial for improving clinical outcomes for patients with diabetes.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Adeola Bamgboje-Ayodele, Steven M. Mcphail, David Brain, Richard Taggart, Mitchell Burger, Lenert Bruce, Caroline Holtby, Malcolm Pradhan, Mark Simpson, Tim J. Shaw, Melissa T. Baysari
Summary: This study aimed to identify criteria for prioritising digital health research, examine how these differ from criteria for prioritising traditional health research, and determine priority decision support use cases for a collaborative implementation research programme.
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Dianna Cheney-Peters, Elizabeth Liveright, Christine Shusted, Jacqueline F. Sinnott, Gretchen Diemer, Rebecca Jaffe
Summary: This research describes and evaluates a novel curriculum and learning community aimed at improving quality improvement for healthcare equity. The curriculum utilized a virtual hub-and-spoke learning community to address existing healthcare inequities using quality improvement methods. Participants reported an increase in knowledge and skills and an increased likelihood of future engagement in healthcare equity quality improvement.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Olivia S. Jung, Fahima Begum, Andrea Dorbu, Sara J. Singer, Patricia Satterstrom
Summary: Through organizational innovation contests, frontline clinicians and staff have generated numerous ideas for improvement, focusing on standardization, staffing, patient experience, staff training, and workplace perks. These issues are crucial for enhancing the quality of care in healthcare organizations.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Gerontology
Heather Davila, Whitney L. Mills, Valerie Clark, Christine W. Hartmann, Jennifer L. Sullivan, David C. Mohr, Amy W. Baughman, Dan R. Berlowitz, Camilla B. Pimentel
Summary: For two decades, performance measures for most nursing homes in the U.S. have been publicly reported, resulting in some improvements in quality. However, public reporting is a new concept for Department of Veterans Affairs nursing homes. A study comparing the perceptions of CLC leaders on public reporting and its influence on quality improvement revealed that public reporting was seen as beneficial for transparency and gaining an external perspective. Similar strategies were employed across CLCs to improve public ratings, although more effort was required in lower performing CLCs.
JOURNAL OF AGING & SOCIAL POLICY
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ding Li, Han Xiao, Shuang Ma, Jiangxue Zhang
Summary: Measuring the health benefits of air quality improvement is a new perspective for evaluating government investment in pollution control. This study shows that improving air quality can reduce patients' medical costs and the loss of working and living time, with a more significant impact on patients with chronic respiratory diseases and inpatients with circulatory diseases.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Ramin Asgary, Elena Beideck, Rosanna Naderi
Summary: This study aimed to investigate diabetes control among homeless individuals and its associated factors. The results showed that homeless individuals were more likely to have inadequately managed diabetes, with higher average HbA1c levels. Domiciled status, older age, and non-Hispanic/Latino ethnicity were associated with well-managed diabetes. Interventions targeting subgroups should be implemented in shelters or shelter-clinics to improve diabetes control.
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Yousef Mohseni Homagarani, Kimia Adlparvar, Saba Teimuri, Mohammad Javad Tarrahi, Firoozeh Nilchian
Summary: Diabetes mellitus is not statistically significantly associated with oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL), although it may lead to functional limitations, physical pain, and psychological discomfort. Dentists can play an important role in raising awareness about these issues and improving OHRQoL in individuals with diabetes.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
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Health Policy & Services
Ranbir Mangat Bains, Jesse White-Frese
Summary: School-based health centers provide quality health services to children and youth, with an initiative to establish standardized quality measures across all centers. Five measures developed by the School-Based Health Alliance were successfully implemented as a state-based quality improvement initiative.
JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC HEALTH CARE
(2021)
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Nursing
Sunhee Park, Taewha Lee
Summary: This study examined the health-related quality of life trajectories in older adults with diabetes mellitus using a mixed method approach. The results identified four distinctive trajectories: high then decrease, high stable, medium stable, and low then increase. These trajectories differed in attitudes towards diabetes, self-management of diabetes-related tasks, comorbidity-related health-related quality of life, coping with diabetes, and financial concerns about medical needs.
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Khalid Abed Dahleez, Imad Bader, Mohammed Aboramadan
Summary: This study investigates how e-health system characteristics contribute to medical staff performance, patient care, and doctor-patient relationships. Findings show that information quality has a positive impact on staff performance and patient care, while system quality affects doctor-patient relationships and patient care positively. Recommendations include addressing system shortfalls and improving perception towards system ease of use and usefulness.
JOURNAL OF ENTERPRISE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Eun Young Lee, Seon-Ah Cha, Jae-Seung Yun, Sun-Young Lim, Jin-Hee Lee, Yu-Bae Ahn, Kun-Ho Yoon, Min Kyung Hyun, Seung-Hyun Ko
Summary: This study evaluated the effect of an electronic medical record-integrated mobile app on glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The mobile app showed short-term efficacy in glycemic control, but the effect decreased over time. Most participants were satisfied with using the app.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2022)