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Health Research Associates: Dana Library Program Supporting The Information Needs Of Small Hospitals & Public Health Agencies In Vermont, Marianne Burke, Lesley Boucher

UVM Libraries Conference Day

We will describe the purpose, methods, members and service changes, income-expense status, trends, and the value of this program.

Modeling To Assess Value: Is It Ready For Prime Time?, Jaime J. Caro, Mdcm, Frcpc, Facp

Jefferson School of Population Health Fellows’ Day

Jaime Caro is Senior Vice President, Research, at a consulting firm, where he leads development and application of novel techniques in health economics, multi-criteria decision analysis, benefit-risk analysis, comparative effectiveness, and epidemiology. He led the Caro Research Institute for more than a decade, until CRI was acquired in 2007. Dr. Caro trained at McGill University, where he practiced internal medicine and continues as adjunct Professor of Medicine, as well as of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He is also adjunct professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and lecturer at Thomas Jefferson University School of Population Health.

A Single Long-Term Acute Care Hospital Experience With A Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program, Daniel Young, Cathy Borris-Hale

Interdisciplinary Research Scholarship Day

This study describes the experience of a single, long-term care acute hospital (LTAC) with the Medline Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program (mPUPP)

• The growing light being shed on pressure ulcer (PrU) costs for the people that get them and the health care systems that treat them, has challenged care facilities to look for programs to reduce nosocomial PrU
• Each PrU can cost between $700 and $135,000 in medical care related expenses and litigation
• Recent evidence suggests that successful PrU prevention programs have common characteristics