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Using Mixed Methods To Measure The Perception Of Community Capacity In An Academic–Community Partnership For A Walking Intervention, Charkarra Anderson-Lewis, Diana Castellanos, Arnecca Byrd, Karen Zynda, Alicia Sample, Vickie Reed, Mary Beard, Latessa Minor, Kathleen Yadrick Mar 2016

Using Mixed Methods To Measure The Perception Of Community Capacity In An Academic–Community Partnership For A Walking Intervention, Charkarra Anderson-Lewis, Diana Castellanos, Arnecca Byrd, Karen Zynda, Alicia Sample, Vickie Reed, Mary Beard, Latessa Minor, Kathleen Yadrick

Diana Cuy Castellanos

H.U.B. City Steps is a 5-year community-based participatory research walking intervention designed to help lower blood pressure in a majority African American population in southern Mississippi via community collaboration and capacity building, increased walking, culturally tailored health education sessions, and motivational interviewing. Building community capacity for physical activity is a key component of this intervention. Qualitative and quantitative methods have been used to assess how project stakeholders perceive the community capacity-building efforts of the project. This article illustrates the baseline results of this mixed methods approach from the perspective of three groups of stakeholders: project researchers and staff, community advisory …


Evidence Based Practice Research Survey, Kathleen Abrahamson, Priscilla Arling, Jenna Gillette, Kathy Wyngarden, Cathy Schwartz Mar 2016

Evidence Based Practice Research Survey, Kathleen Abrahamson, Priscilla Arling, Jenna Gillette, Kathy Wyngarden, Cathy Schwartz

Priscilla Arling

In the spring and summer of 2011, CPM Consortium members were invited to participate in a descriptive research study examining knowledge of and beliefs surrounding evidence-based practice (EBP) within healthcare organizations. This study, in partnership with Regenstrief Institute, is the first step in a series of studies regarding transformation science. These research studies are part of the CPM Transformation Science journey that was ‘kicked off’ at the 2009 Consortium Transformation Science Summit.


Measurement Error In Performance Studies Of Health Information Technology: Lessons From The Management Literature, Adam Seth Litwin, Ariel Avgar, Peter Pronovost Jan 2016

Measurement Error In Performance Studies Of Health Information Technology: Lessons From The Management Literature, Adam Seth Litwin, Ariel Avgar, Peter Pronovost

Adam Seth Litwin

Just as researchers and clinicians struggle to pin down the benefits attendant to health information technology (IT), management scholars have long labored to identify the performance effects arising from new technologies and from other organizational innovations, namely the reorganization of work and the devolution of decision-making authority. This paper applies lessons from that literature to theorize the likely sources of measurement error that yield the weak statistical relationship between measures of health IT and various performance outcomes. In so doing, it complements the evaluation literature’s more conceptual examination of health IT’s limited performance impact. The paper focuses on seven issues, …


Explaining The Health Information Technology Paradox, Ariel Avgar, Adam Seth Litwin Jan 2016

Explaining The Health Information Technology Paradox, Ariel Avgar, Adam Seth Litwin

Adam Seth Litwin

Excerpt] The substantial gap between the promise inherent in upgrading information systems in health care and the documented reality has baffled health care scholars. Why is a technology so clearly capable of creating efficiencies, increasing safety, and promoting greater information sharing and coordination across professionals failing to live up to expectations?


Review Of Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers And Endangering Patients, Adam Seth Litwin Jan 2016

Review Of Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers And Endangering Patients, Adam Seth Litwin

Adam Seth Litwin

[Excerpt] Researchers sensitive to the plight of low-wage workers in advanced industrialized economies have long sought to convey the magnitude of the problem by retelling sorrowful tales of worker exploitation. Sadly, even their most sympathetic readers have numbed to these accounts. Author Dan Zuberi has found a clever way to transcend this apathy in his new monograph based on about 100 interviews plus behind-the- scenes observations of the impact of hospital support staff outsourcing on patients and workers. Through a well-developed understanding of the work process and changes in the employment relationship, he ties outsourcing and the resulting exploitation of …


Integrating Commercial Ambulatory Electronic Health Records With Hospital Systems: An Evolutionary Process., Susan A Sherer, Chad D Meyerhoefer, Michael Sheinberg Md, Donald Levick Md Aug 2015

Integrating Commercial Ambulatory Electronic Health Records With Hospital Systems: An Evolutionary Process., Susan A Sherer, Chad D Meyerhoefer, Michael Sheinberg Md, Donald Levick Md

Donald Levick MD, MBA, CPHIMS

OBJECTIVE: The increase in electronic health record implementation in all treatment venues has led to greater demands for integration within and across practice settings with different work cultures. We study the evolution of coordination processes when integrating ambulatory-specific electronic health records with hospital systems. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Longitudinal qualitative study using semi-structured interviews and archival documentation throughout a 5-year implementation and integration of obstetrical ambulatory and hospital records with a goal of achieving a perinatal continuum of care. RESULTS: As users implement and integrate electronic health records, there is an evolution in their focus from technology acceptance to structural adaptation …


Consumer Hookah Consumption: Is The Hubble Bubble The New Coffee And Cocktail?, Tracy Harmon-Kizer Feb 2015

Consumer Hookah Consumption: Is The Hubble Bubble The New Coffee And Cocktail?, Tracy Harmon-Kizer

Tracy R. Harmon-Kizer Ph.D.

Hookah smoking is a growing practice among American teens and young adults. In a single hookah smoking session, a smoker may inhale 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke inhaled in a single cigarette. Yet, the risks and adverse consequences of hookah smoking are relatively unfamiliar to health professionals, tobacco policy regulators and consumer behavior researchers. To extend our understanding of this epidemic-like consumption practice, this study explores consumer initiation and continued practice, and the meanings, attitudes and beliefs held by those who smoke hookah, especially with respect to cigarette smoking. Our findings reveal adulterated ways in which hookah …


Practicing Anthropology In An Academic Community Hospital: Lessons From The Field, Lynn Deitrick, Terry Capuano, Debbie Salas-Lopez Sep 2014

Practicing Anthropology In An Academic Community Hospital: Lessons From The Field, Lynn Deitrick, Terry Capuano, Debbie Salas-Lopez

Debbie Salas-Lopez MD, MPH

No abstract provided.


Alignment Of Lean Management Process To Quality And Safety In A Academic Community Hospital: Psychiatry For The Twenty First Century., Ronald Swinfard, Michael Kaufmann, Ralph Primelo, Laurence Karper, Muhamad Rifai, Edward Norris, Debbie Salas-Lopez, David Burmeister, Gail Stern, David Dylewski, D Ezrow, Rosanne Teders, Courtney Vose Sep 2014

Alignment Of Lean Management Process To Quality And Safety In A Academic Community Hospital: Psychiatry For The Twenty First Century., Ronald Swinfard, Michael Kaufmann, Ralph Primelo, Laurence Karper, Muhamad Rifai, Edward Norris, Debbie Salas-Lopez, David Burmeister, Gail Stern, David Dylewski, D Ezrow, Rosanne Teders, Courtney Vose

Debbie Salas-Lopez MD, MPH

No abstract provided.


An Ecological Approach To Organizational Transformation: The Growth Of Cross-Cultural Health Care Delivery In An Academic Community Health Network, James Geiger, Judith Sabino, Eric Gertner, Jarret Patton, Llewellyn Cornelius, Debbie Salas-Lopez Sep 2014

An Ecological Approach To Organizational Transformation: The Growth Of Cross-Cultural Health Care Delivery In An Academic Community Health Network, James Geiger, Judith Sabino, Eric Gertner, Jarret Patton, Llewellyn Cornelius, Debbie Salas-Lopez

Debbie Salas-Lopez MD, MPH

No abstract provided.


An Ecological Approach To Organizational Cultural Competence, Judith Sabino, Jarret Patton, Erica Mahady, Lynn Deitrick, James Geiger, Marykay Grim, Debbie Salas-Lopez Sep 2014

An Ecological Approach To Organizational Cultural Competence, Judith Sabino, Jarret Patton, Erica Mahady, Lynn Deitrick, James Geiger, Marykay Grim, Debbie Salas-Lopez

Debbie Salas-Lopez MD, MPH

No abstract provided.


Consumer Imagery And Southern Us Foods: A Preliminary Study, Abel Alonso Aug 2014

Consumer Imagery And Southern Us Foods: A Preliminary Study, Abel Alonso

Abel D Alonso

This study addresses the consumer’s image of stereotypical Southern foods in the Southern United States (US), as well as their level of consumption, and sheds light on the trade-off that many consumers continue to make favouring taste over health when it comes to consumption. Data were collected in a South-eastern US town via direct questionnaire distribution; 500 questionnaires were distributed and 233 usable responses obtained. The findings indicate that the high calorie content or the ‘unhealthy’ nature of the foods, but at the same time the ‘tasty’ element are images consistently identified in respondents’ comments. Thus, there appears to be …


A Mixed Method Study Of Information Availability On Pregnancy Outcomes, Donald Levick Md Jan 2014

A Mixed Method Study Of Information Availability On Pregnancy Outcomes, Donald Levick Md

Donald Levick MD

No abstract provided.


Alignment Of Lean Management Process To Quality And Safety In A Academic Community Hospital: Psychiatry For The Twenty First Century., Ronald Swinfard, Michael Kaufmann, Ralph Primelo, Laurence Karper, Muhamad Rifai, Edward Norris, Debbie Salas-Lopez, David Burmeister, Gail Stern, David Dylewski, D Ezrow, Rosanne Teders, Courtney Vose Nov 2013

Alignment Of Lean Management Process To Quality And Safety In A Academic Community Hospital: Psychiatry For The Twenty First Century., Ronald Swinfard, Michael Kaufmann, Ralph Primelo, Laurence Karper, Muhamad Rifai, Edward Norris, Debbie Salas-Lopez, David Burmeister, Gail Stern, David Dylewski, D Ezrow, Rosanne Teders, Courtney Vose

Edward R Norris MD, FAPA, FAPM

No abstract provided.


Testimony To Senator Mike Folmer, Harry Lukens, Donald Levick Jul 2013

Testimony To Senator Mike Folmer, Harry Lukens, Donald Levick

Donald Levick MD

No abstract provided.


The Balanced Scorecard: Its Role In The Effective Management Of Resources, Terry Capuano Jul 2013

The Balanced Scorecard: Its Role In The Effective Management Of Resources, Terry Capuano

Terry A Capuano MBA, MSN, RN, FACHE, NE-BC

No abstract provided.


Foreword, Terry Capuano Jul 2013

Foreword, Terry Capuano

Terry A Capuano MBA, MSN, RN, FACHE, NE-BC

No abstract provided.


Reward And Recognition: Building A Comprehensive Program And Culture, Terry Capuano Jul 2013

Reward And Recognition: Building A Comprehensive Program And Culture, Terry Capuano

Terry A Capuano MBA, MSN, RN, FACHE, NE-BC

No abstract provided.


Magnet Status Helps Hospitals Pull In Nurses, Terry Capuano Jul 2013

Magnet Status Helps Hospitals Pull In Nurses, Terry Capuano

Terry A Capuano MBA, MSN, RN, FACHE, NE-BC

No abstract provided.


Case Study To Achieve A Magnet Enviroment, Terry Capuano Jul 2013

Case Study To Achieve A Magnet Enviroment, Terry Capuano

Terry A Capuano MBA, MSN, RN, FACHE, NE-BC

No abstract provided.


Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Improving Cost And Quality Outcomes, Terry Capuano Jul 2013

Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Improving Cost And Quality Outcomes, Terry Capuano

Terry A Capuano MBA, MSN, RN, FACHE, NE-BC

No abstract provided.


Systemic Versus Nonsystemic Approaches To Quality Improvement, William Roth, Terry Capuano Jul 2013

Systemic Versus Nonsystemic Approaches To Quality Improvement, William Roth, Terry Capuano

Terry A Capuano MBA, MSN, RN, FACHE, NE-BC

No abstract provided.


Practicing Anthropology In An Academic Community Hospital: Lessons From The Field, Lynn Deitrick, Terry Capuano, Debbie Salas-Lopez Jul 2013

Practicing Anthropology In An Academic Community Hospital: Lessons From The Field, Lynn Deitrick, Terry Capuano, Debbie Salas-Lopez

Terry A Capuano MBA, MSN, RN, FACHE, NE-BC

No abstract provided.


The Implementation Of A Perinatal Continuum Of Care Information System: Lessons Learned, Donald Levick, Michael Sheinberg Jul 2013

The Implementation Of A Perinatal Continuum Of Care Information System: Lessons Learned, Donald Levick, Michael Sheinberg

Donald Levick MD

No abstract provided.


Organizational Challenges In The Implementation And Integration Of Vendor-Supplied Electronic Health Record System, Susan Sherer, Chad Myerhoefer, S Chou, M Deily, Donald Levick, M Sheinberg Jul 2013

Organizational Challenges In The Implementation And Integration Of Vendor-Supplied Electronic Health Record System, Susan Sherer, Chad Myerhoefer, S Chou, M Deily, Donald Levick, M Sheinberg

Donald Levick MD

No abstract provided.


Plugging The Drip: Challenges With Business Intelligence, Donald Levick Jul 2013

Plugging The Drip: Challenges With Business Intelligence, Donald Levick

Donald Levick MD

No abstract provided.


Treating Data As A Corporate Asset To Improve Clinical And Financial Management, Donald Levick Jul 2013

Treating Data As A Corporate Asset To Improve Clinical And Financial Management, Donald Levick

Donald Levick MD

No abstract provided.


Clinical Decision Support Workshop: You Can't Have One Without The Order - Practical Cds & Quality Improvement, Donald Levick Jul 2013

Clinical Decision Support Workshop: You Can't Have One Without The Order - Practical Cds & Quality Improvement, Donald Levick

Donald Levick MD

No abstract provided.


Clinical Decision Support: Where To Start, Donald Levick Jul 2013

Clinical Decision Support: Where To Start, Donald Levick

Donald Levick MD

No abstract provided.


The Unintended Consequences Of Clinical Decision Support, Donald Levick, David Pucklavage Jul 2013

The Unintended Consequences Of Clinical Decision Support, Donald Levick, David Pucklavage

Donald Levick MD

No abstract provided.