Glu: An Online Type 1 Diabetes Information Community, 2016 San Jose State University
Glu: An Online Type 1 Diabetes Information Community, Stefanie Witt
School of Information Student Research Journal
This research paper examines the online health community Glu (MyGlu.org), a type 1 diabetes social media site. Type 1 diabetes is a chronic medical condition that requires constant and specialized medical attention. Online health communities like Glu, are an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle for many of its members. This study discusses the composition of this information community, the motivations of its members, and the benefits members gain through their participation. It describes the major characteristics of the community and focuses on the information needs of type 1 diabetics. It concludes with reflections on how libraries and LIS …
Visualizing And Interacting With Social Determinants Of Health, 2016 The University of Western Ontario
Visualizing And Interacting With Social Determinants Of Health, Moutasem Zakkar
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the use of information visualization to represent specific social determinants of health, and to examine the benefits of such representation for health policymaking. Methods: The study developed a prototype for a visualization tool (www.healthvisualization.ca), which represents the conceptual framework for the social determinants of health (CSDH) and new ways to represent related health equity indicators. This tool was used by study participants. The experience of these participants and the usability of the tool were evaluated using qualitative semi-structured interviews. Results: Visualizing the CSDH framework helps to present the social …
Prognostic Indices For Hospitalized Older Adults: A Meta-Analysis And Systematic Review, 2016 Department of Geriatrics, Aurora UW Medical Group
Prognostic Indices For Hospitalized Older Adults: A Meta-Analysis And Systematic Review, Ariba Khan, Ayesha Maria, James Hocker, Maharaj Singh, Michelle Simpson
Ariba Khan, MD, MPH
Background: A prognostication predictive model incorporated into the electronic health record (EHR) may be useful in assisting the health care team in accurately predicting mortality and may be used in appropriately allocating palliative care services.
Purpose: To systematically review and summarize current medical literature regarding the factors predictive of mortality in an inpatient population above 65 years of age.
Methods: Nondisease-specific prognostication indices that predict 1-year mortality in an inpatient population of adults over age 65 were included. We excluded studies that estimated intensive care unit, disease-specific or in-hospital mortality. A MEDLINE, CINAHL, Ovid and Cochrane literature search of English-language …
An Automated Model Using Electronic Health Record Data To Identify Delirium Among Hospitalized Older Adults: A Pilot Project, 2016 Department of Geriatrics, Aurora UW Medical Group
An Automated Model Using Electronic Health Record Data To Identify Delirium Among Hospitalized Older Adults: A Pilot Project, Ariba Khan, Maharaj Singh, Hina Singh, Ayesha Maria, Michelle Simpson
Ariba Khan, MD, MPH
Background: Delirium is a serious change in mental status with adverse outcomes, but remains underrecognized. The electronic health record (EHR) may assist in the identification of delirium.
Purpose: This study was performed to generate an automated delirium identification model using data from the EHR among hospitalized older adults.
Methods: Inpatients 65 years and older were included in this cross-sectional study. The researchers used “confusion assessment method” as the gold standard to identify delirium. Four categories of variables were obtained from the EHR on the day of and the day prior to researcher assessment: 1) hypoactive delirium (any one of the …
Feasibility And Compliance With Daily Home Ecg Monitoring Of The Qt Interval In Heart Transplant Recipients, 2016 University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, San Francisco
Feasibility And Compliance With Daily Home Ecg Monitoring Of The Qt Interval In Heart Transplant Recipients, Erik V. Carter, Kathleen T. Hickey, David M. Pickham, Lynn V. Doering, Belinda Chen, Patricia R. E. Harris, Barbara J. Drew
Patricia Harris
About 13% of adult heart transplant recipients do not survive to one year and a major cause of death is acute cellular allograft rejection.1,2 According to the 2009 annual United States data published from the International Society for Heart Lung Transplantation Registry, acute rejection occurs in 25 – 35% of transplant recipients within the first year following transplant surgery.3 In order to detect the early stages of rejection so that more aggressive and early immunosuppressant therapy can be initiated, frequent biopsies of heart tissue are performed (typically, weekly or every other week in the first 3 months and …
Spatial Heterogeneity Analysis In Evaluation Of Cell Viability And Apoptosis For Colorectal Cancer Cells, 2016 CUNY City College
Spatial Heterogeneity Analysis In Evaluation Of Cell Viability And Apoptosis For Colorectal Cancer Cells, Aydin Saribudak, Herman Kucharavy, Karen Hubbard, Muharrem Umit Uyar
Publications and Research
In evaluation of cell viability and apoptosis, spatial heterogeneity is quantified for cancerous cells cultured in 3-D in vitro cell-based assays under the impact of anti-cancer agents. In 48-h experiments using human colorectal cancer cell lines of HCT-116, SW-620, and SW-480, incubated cells are divided into control and drug administered groups, to be grown in matrigel and FOLFOX solution, respectively. Our 3-D cell tracking and data acquisition system guiding an inverted microscope with a digital camera is utilized to capture bright field and fluorescent images of colorectal cancer cells at multiple time points. Identifying the locations of live and dead …
Smartphone Mobile Application To Enhance Diagnosis Of Skin Cancer: A Guide For The Rural Practitioner, 2016 Marshall University
Smartphone Mobile Application To Enhance Diagnosis Of Skin Cancer: A Guide For The Rural Practitioner, Shane E. Cook, Louis C. Palmer Md, Franklin D. Shuler Md, Phd
Franklin D. Shuler
Primary care physicians occupy a vital position to impact many devastating conditions, especially those dependent upon early diagnosis, such as skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States and despite improvements in skin cancer therapy, patients with a delay in diagnosis and advanced disease continue to have a grave prognosis. Due to a variety of barriers, advanced stages of skin cancer are more prominent in rural populations. In order to improve early diagnosis four things are paramount: increased patient participation in prevention methods, establishment of screening guidelines, increased diagnostic accuracy of malignant lesions, and easier …
June 2016, 2016 Southwestern Oklahoma State University
June 2016, Randy Curry, Cindy Brooks
RURAL ROCKS
Rural Rocks, the Rural Health Network newsletter by the SWOSU College of Pharmacy
Utilizing An Electronic Health Record Prompt To Improve Routine Tobacco Intervention In Student Health: An Ebp Project, 2016 University of San Diego
Utilizing An Electronic Health Record Prompt To Improve Routine Tobacco Intervention In Student Health: An Ebp Project, Molly Patricia Hurda
Doctor of Nursing Practice Final Manuscripts
Purpose: Improve the use of tobacco screening and cessation interventions by utilizing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) prompt in a university student health center.
Background: It is well known that the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the United States (US) is the use of tobacco products. Tobacco use accounts for $289 billion in direct health care costs and loss of productivity annually. Nearly all smokers (98 percent) start before 26 years of age making college campuses an important area for tobacco intervention.1 A southern California university recently adopted a comprehensive tobacco-free campus policy that prohibits the …
Asthma Control Screening Using The Electronic Health Record, 2016 University of San Diego
Asthma Control Screening Using The Electronic Health Record, Accursia A. Baldassano, Jonathon Mack
Doctor of Nursing Practice Final Manuscripts
ABSTRACT
Experts in asthma care globally recommend screening for asthma control in all patients with asthma through the use of an evidence-based tool. This project embedded the Asthma Control Test (ACT) in the electronic health record to determine if screening for control would change compared to standard care.
Methods
An electronic template of the ACT was embedded in the electronic health record system for a community faith-based family medicine clinic. All patients 12 years and older with a previous diagnosis of asthma were included in this project. These patients were screened for asthma control using the template at every appointment. …
Improving Policies Impacting School Absenteeism Due To Influenza Using Agent-Based Simulation Modeling., 2016 Purdue Polytechnic Institute
Improving Policies Impacting School Absenteeism Due To Influenza Using Agent-Based Simulation Modeling., Galina V. Miller
Purdue P-12 Networking Summit & Poster Session
No abstract provided.
Discordant Documentation Of Obesity Body Mass Index And Obesity Diagnosis In Electronic Medical Records, 2016 Aurora Health Care
Discordant Documentation Of Obesity Body Mass Index And Obesity Diagnosis In Electronic Medical Records, Jennifer T. Fink, George L. Morris Iii, Maharaj Singh, David A. Nelson, Renee E. Walker, Ron A. Cisler
Maharaj Singh
Purpose: This study examined concordance between presence of obesity body mass index (BMI), defined as BMI ≥ 30, in the patient’s electronic medical record (EMR) and a documented diagnosis of obesity.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of the EMR in a large health care system for a 1-year period (2012). A total of 397,313 patients met the study criteria of having at least one physician visit, being at least 18 years of age, and not being pregnant. Of those, 158,327 (40%) had a recorded BMI ≥ 30. We examined the EMR of these obese patients to determine whether a …
Prognostic Indices For Hospitalized Older Adults: A Meta-Analysis And Systematic Review, 2016 Department of Geriatrics, Aurora UW Medical Group
Prognostic Indices For Hospitalized Older Adults: A Meta-Analysis And Systematic Review, Ariba Khan, Ayesha Maria, James Hocker, Maharaj Singh, Michelle Simpson
Maharaj Singh
Background: A prognostication predictive model incorporated into the electronic health record (EHR) may be useful in assisting the health care team in accurately predicting mortality and may be used in appropriately allocating palliative care services.
Purpose: To systematically review and summarize current medical literature regarding the factors predictive of mortality in an inpatient population above 65 years of age.
Methods: Nondisease-specific prognostication indices that predict 1-year mortality in an inpatient population of adults over age 65 were included. We excluded studies that estimated intensive care unit, disease-specific or in-hospital mortality. A MEDLINE, CINAHL, Ovid and Cochrane literature search of English-language …
An Automated Model Using Electronic Health Record Data To Identify Delirium Among Hospitalized Older Adults: A Pilot Project, 2016 Department of Geriatrics, Aurora UW Medical Group
An Automated Model Using Electronic Health Record Data To Identify Delirium Among Hospitalized Older Adults: A Pilot Project, Ariba Khan, Maharaj Singh, Hina Singh, Ayesha Maria, Michelle Simpson
Maharaj Singh
Background: Delirium is a serious change in mental status with adverse outcomes, but remains underrecognized. The electronic health record (EHR) may assist in the identification of delirium.
Purpose: This study was performed to generate an automated delirium identification model using data from the EHR among hospitalized older adults.
Methods: Inpatients 65 years and older were included in this cross-sectional study. The researchers used “confusion assessment method” as the gold standard to identify delirium. Four categories of variables were obtained from the EHR on the day of and the day prior to researcher assessment: 1) hypoactive delirium (any one of the …
Missing Links: Challenges In Engaging The Underserved With Health Information And Communication Technology, 2016 Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation
Missing Links: Challenges In Engaging The Underserved With Health Information And Communication Technology, Maria D. Wright, Mindy Flanagan, Kislaya Kunjan, Bradley N. Doebbeling, Tammy Toscos Phd
Health Services and Informatics Research
PervasiveHealth '16: Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
We sought to understand underserved patients' preferences for health information technology (HIT) and examine the current use of personal health records (PHRs) in Community Health Centers (CHCs) serving low-income, uninsured, and underinsured patients. Forty-three patients and 49 clinic staff, administrators, and providers from these CHC systems were interviewed using open-ended questions assessing patient experience, perceptions of the CHC, access barriers, strategies used to overcome access barriers, technology access and use, and clinic operations and workflow. All seven CHC systems were at some stage of implementing …
"What's App?" Utilizing Evidence Based Medicine Apps In The Clinical Setting, 2016 Butler University
"What's App?" Utilizing Evidence Based Medicine Apps In The Clinical Setting, Kathryn C. O'Donovan
BU Well
The medical community has utilized evidence-based medicine, or EBM, in practice for decades, and healthcare personnel are used to the idea of utilizing research and statistics to determine the treatment of patients. However, as technology advances, the use of electronics and EBM apps has increased in the clinical setting. While there are advantages to clinicians having resources at their fingertips as they talk with patients, there are also hurdles that could harm or offend patients. So as healthcare inevitably becomes more and more electronic, can providers strike the balance needed to effectively use EBM apps in practice to provide optimum …
Engaging Patients In Underserved Populations With Health Information Technology (Hit), 2016 Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
Engaging Patients In Underserved Populations With Health Information Technology (Hit), Treva Strasen, Shannon F. Johnson
Shannon F Johnson
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are working to meet a national mandate to have meaningful use of electronic health records by 2014 which includes engaging patients in their healthcare. By integrating mobile technologic solutions that consider patient preferences towards MT, healthcare providers will be able to develop effective, efficient, and sustainable HIT programs to improve patient outcomes. The goal of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of how best to activate patients in underserved populations to use mobile technology (MT) to improve their health and communication with their healthcare providers. A survey study was performed with a convenience …
A Qualitative Analysis Of Virtual Patient Descriptions In Healthcare Education Based On A Systematic Literature Review, 2016 Dartmouth College
A Qualitative Analysis Of Virtual Patient Descriptions In Healthcare Education Based On A Systematic Literature Review, Inga Hege, Andrzej A. Kononowicz, Daniel Tolks, Samuel Edelbring
Dartmouth Scholarship
Background: Virtual Patients (VPs) have been in the focus of research in healthcare education for many years. The aim of our study was to analyze how virtual patients are described in the healthcare education literature, and how the identified concepts relate to each other.
Methods: We performed a literature review and extracted 185 descriptions of virtual patients from the articles. In a qualitative content analysis approach we inductively-deductively developed categories and deducted subcategories. We constructed a concept map to illustrate these concepts and their interrelations.
Results: We developed the following five main categories: Patient, Teacher, Virtual Patient, Curriculum, and Learner. …
A Business Case For Tele-Intensive Care Units, 2016 Marshall University
A Business Case For Tele-Intensive Care Units, Alberto Coustasse, Stacie Deslich, Deanna Bailey, Alesia Hairston, David Paul
Alberto Coustasse, DrPH, MD, MBA, MPH
Objectives: A tele-intensive care unit (tele-ICU) uses telemedicine in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting, applying technology to provide care to critically ill patients by off-site clinical resources. The purpose of this review was to examine the implementation, adoption, and utilization of tele-ICU systems by hospitals to determine their efficiency and efficacy as identified by cost savings and patient outcomes. Methods: This literature review examined a large number of studies of implementation of tele-ICU systems in hospitals. Results: The evidence supporting cost savings was mixed. Implementation of a tele- ICU system was associated with cost savings, shorter lengths of stay, …
Big Data Management In United States Hospitals: Benefits And Barriers, 2016 Marshall University
Big Data Management In United States Hospitals: Benefits And Barriers, Chad Schaeffer, Ariful Haque, Lawrence Booton, Jamey Halleck, Alberto Coustasse
Jamey Halleck
Big Data has been considered as an effective tool to reduce healthcare costs by eliminating adverse events and reducing readmissions in hospitals. The purpose of this study was to examine the emergence of Big Data in the United Sates healthcare industry, to evaluate hospital’s ability to effectively make use of complex information, and to predict the potential benefits hospitals might realize if they are successful. The findings of the research suggest that there were a number of benefits expected by hospitals when using Big Data analytics, including cost savings and business intelligence. In addition, hospitals have recognized that there have …