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Changing The Way Providers Order Blood Return To Intensive Care Patients, Chloe Morris

Spring Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Patients with anemia and other conditions resulting in loss of blood often come with orders to return wasted blood to them. While using typical blood draw practices, patients are placed at an increased risk of infection when their blood is exposed to the outside world. My question is, will using a closed system decrease the instances of infection in patients who receive their waste blood after draws? By utilizing a waste syringe attached to the IV line, nurses can avoid detaching and reattaching syringes to collect and give back the patient's blood. Patients who are already at an increased risk …

Factors Associated With Suicide Mortality Among Childbearing-Aged Individuals: A Case-Control Study, Katerina A. Furman, Amy Loree Phd, Leah Hecht Phd, Katerina Furman Md Candidate, Lyuba Gavrilova Bs, Hsueh-Han Yeh Phd, Catherine Frank Md, Brian Ahmedani Phd

Medical Student Research Symposium

Purpose: Examine pregnancy-related, demographic, psychosocial and healthcare utilization factors among childbearing-aged individuals who were pregnant, postpartum or who experienced pregnancy loss

Methods: Data from nine health care systems in the Mental Health Research Network was included in this sample. A case-control study design was used in which 290 childbearing-age individuals who died by suicide (cases) from 2000-2015 were matched with 10 childbearing-age individuals from the same healthcare system and enrolled during the same time period who did not die by suicide (n=2,900). Conditional logistic regression was used to analyze associations between pregnancy/postpartum/pregnancy loss status and suicide.

Results: …

A Retrospective Chart Review Analyzing The Relationship Between Blood Pressure Rechecks And Polypharmacy, Callie M. Bartkowiak, Meghan K. Gwinn, Danielle Heidemann

Medical Student Research Symposium

ABSTRACT BODY:

Background: Hypertension (HTN) affects nearly 80 million people in the United States. A patient’s blood pressure (BP) measurement may influence the number of antihypertensives prescribed. Providers often do not recheck BP when a patient’s measurement is elevated despite research supporting that remeasuring may result in a significant decrease in BP. We hypothesized that patients who have BP remeasured in clinic would have lower BP values and thus less antihypertensive medication. In our academic general internal medicine (GIM) clinic, providers are encouraged to manually repeat BP if elevated on vitals taken by medical assistants using an automated cuff at …

Implementing Bedside Regional Anesthesia: Improving Clinical Effectiveness, Geoffrey Ho, Everett Chu, Adam Greenwood, Jason Podolnick, Rachel Lubran, Natalie Pudalov, Philip Th Dela Cruz, Paul Dangerfield

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Posters and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Psjh Telehealth Covid-19 Repsonse, Todd Czartoski

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

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An Overview Of The Health Delivery System In The State Of Mississippi, Cerlyn K. Ellis

Publications and Research

Imagine residing in a high-income country that doesn’t provide access to necessary healthcare. The state of Mississippi remains one of the poorest states in the United States. This has resulted in poor health outcomes and chronic access barriers. Residents of Mississippi ranks poorly in most health indicators, including Infectious Disease, Infant Mortality, Clinic Care, Obesity, Diabetes, and Premature Death.

With half of all rural hospitals in Mississippi threatened with closure, access and quality of care barriers will become more challenging to resolve. This comes partly as a result of the state largely governed by Republicans and the legislators refusing to …

Effective Communication: A Vital Skill In Healthcare, Allison Crabtree

Presentations, Proceedings & Performances

Members of the healthcare team conduct thousands of patient and peer interactions over the course of a career. The call to action from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report on Health Professions and Training stresses the importance of communication training for all members of the healthcare team. As with other healthcare procedures, communication skills can be learned and improved upon, but requires commitment and practice.

Given the wealth of evidence linking ineffective clinician-patient communication with increased malpractice risks, patient nonadherence, patient and clinician dissatisfaction, and poor patient health outcomes, the necessity of addressing communication skills deficits is of utmost importance

Why Doula Services Should Become An Essential Health Benefit In New York State, Jalisha Hanshaw, Amy White

Publications and Research

Doulas are birth workers who assist expecting mothers through pregnancy, birth and postpartum using holistic techniques. Techniques include: prenatal yoga, birth affirmations and induction acupuncture. Doulas are underrated healthcare providers who deserve the same respect as clinical and non-clinical providers. Doulas are well-rounded alternative care providers who focus on mental, emotional, and physical well being of mothers. Also, they know special alternative medical techniques that prevent mothers from maternal mortality among other negative health outcomes. The amount of time and effort doulas perform with expecting mothers are equal or more than the average medical healthcare provider and should be a …

International Evidence On Medical Spending., Robert D. Lieberthal, Phd

College of Population Health Lectures, Presentations, Workshops

The 46th Actuarial Research Conference, Poster session I, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. August 11, 2011.

Poster conclusions:

• U.S. spending is high.
• Long tailed medical linked insurance may be easier to write in the U.S.
• U.S. healthcare cost curve is not outrageous.
• Average spending
• Low volatility

Poster is associated with this paper: http://jdc.jefferson.edu/healthpolicyfaculty/45/

International Evidence On Medical Spending., Robert D. Lieberthal, Phd

College of Population Health Lectures, Presentations, Workshops

Presented for the American Statistical Association Health Policy Statistics Section.9th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, Cleveland, OH.

14 PowerPoint slides

Presentation associated with this paper: http://jdc.jefferson.edu/healthpolicyfaculty/45/.

Strategies For Financing Healthcare Costs Over The Long Term., Robert D. Lieberthal, Phd

College of Population Health Lectures, Presentations, Workshops

Presented for the American Statistical Association Health Policy Statistics Section. 9th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, Poster session I, Cleveland, OH.

Funding to support this work came from AHRQ grant R36 HS018835-01.

Policy Implications:

-Health insurance companies should use a broad, diversified investment portfolio as their optimal investment strategy -Insurance regulators should be focused on longer term lines of health insurance

High Frequency Evidence On Variation In Spending Growth., Robert D. Lieberthal, Phd

College of Population Health Lectures, Presentations, Workshops

Presented for the American Statistical Association Health Policy Statistics Section. 9th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, Poster session I, Cleveland, OH.

Policy Implications:

• Health insurance regulation should include compensation for taking on riskier groups.
• Health programs should focus on changing needs for risk management versus health management throughout the life cycle.

Funding to support this work came from AHRQ grant R36 HS018835-01.

Validating The Pridit Method For Determining Hospital Quality With Outcomes Data., Robert D. Lieberthal, Phd, Dominique Comer, Pharmd, Katherine O’Connell, Bs

College of Population Health Lectures, Presentations, Workshops

Presented for The 46th Actuarial Research Conference, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

15 PowerPoint slides

International Evidence On Medical Spending Risk., Robert D. Lieberthal, Phd

College of Population Health Lectures, Presentations, Workshops

Presented for the American Risk and Insurance Association. 2011 ARIA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

20 PowerPoint slides.

Presentation is associated with the paper: http://jdc.jefferson.edu/healthpolicyfaculty/45/

International Evidence On Medical Spending., Robert D. Lieberthal, Phd

College of Population Health Lectures, Presentations, Workshops

Presented for the Casualty Actuarial Society 2011 Seminar on Reinsurance, Philadelphia, PA.

Handouts are also available at: http://www.casact.org/education/reinsure/2011/handouts/C17-Lieberthal.pdf

the audio is available at: http://www.casact.org/education/reinsure/2011/audio/C17.mp3

and it is associated with the paper: http://jdc.jefferson.edu/healthpolicyfaculty/45/

23 PowerPoint slides.

Fitwits Md: An Intervention To Prevent Childhood Obesity, Diane J. Abatemarco, Phd, Msw, Ann Mcgaffey, Md, Ilene Katz Jewell, Mshyg, Susan K. Fidler, Md, Kristin Hughes, Mfa

College of Population Health Lectures, Presentations, Workshops

Objectives: The purpose of this presentation is to describe a comprehensive evaluation undertaken to study the feasibility of Fitwits MD, an intervention designed to assist primary care physicians to increase health fluency and affect wellness choices of children and their families. Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic but there are few if any successful interventions to alter the course of childhood obesity. The intervention was created through the use of participatory design.