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Reducing Annual Emergency Department Visits Through Improved Asthma Discharge Teaching, Alvin R. Walters

Master's Projects and Capstones

Asthma is the most common pediatric condition in the United States, and a child's home environment plays an impactful role in the triggering of asthma exacerbations (Harper et al., 2015). Current emergency department (ED) ideology focuses on symptoms management, with little time spent on education, and virtually no attention paid to the home environment. Evidence shows that programs which incorporate home environmental assessments into asthma patient education produce a reduction in annual ED visits, fewer missed school days, decreased use of rescue medications, and improvements in quality of life (Gruber K.J., et al, 2016, Hollenbach J.P. & Cloutier M.M., 2015, …

Effect Of Time Duration Of Digestion/Decontamination Technique On Yield Of Mycobacteria And Contamination Rates From Sterile Body Fluids (Pleural And Ascitic Fluid) And Pus Specimens, Samreen Shafiq, Faryal Saleem, Kauser Jabeen, Joveria Farooqi, Warda Alam, Sadia Hanif, Shazia Ali, Sadia Shakoor, Rumina Hasan

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Background:
Duration of digestion/decontamination has a considerable impact on yield of mycobacteria especially from sterile body fluids and pus specimens. Additionally, duration of digestion/decontamination affects the contamination rates. This study evaluates the effect of digestion/decontamination protocol for 15 and 20min versus inoculation of media directly from the sample on contamination rates as well as the yield of mycobacteria from pus and sterile fluids other than cerebrospinal fluids.
Methods:
Pleural fluid (n=60), pus (n=48) and ascitic fluid (n=12) specimens were cultured for mycobacteria and evaluated for contamination and mycobacterial yield using three different processing methodologies: without digestion/decontamination with 5% NaOH-NALC (D/D), …

Phld 9130 - Public Health Research Methods, Yelena N. Tarasenko

Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health Syllabi

The course focuses on the concepts and methods of health services and public health research. It is structured around the primary stages of research proposal development. It is designed for DrPH students in the College of Public Health and other graduate or professional students who have successfully completed the appropriate prerequisites. By the completion of this course, Students will acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to write a research proposal, plan for the dissertation, and develop and carry-out research projects.

Public Reporting Of Cardiac Surgery Outcomes In Pennsylvania: A 20 Year Personal Perspective, Raymond Singer, Md, Mmm, Cpe

Raymond L Singer MD

This forum presentation will describe the national trends of public reporting, pay for performance, and related health care reform measures as well as describe both the intended and unintended consequences of public reporting of cardiac surgery outcomes. PowerPoint slides attached below: 65 slides Presentation: 51 minutes

Association Of Plasma Cytokines With Radiological Recovery In Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Rabia Hussain, Firdaus Shahid, Ghaffar Dawood

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Background: The characterization of tuberculosis (TB) patients as slow or fast responders post anti-TB treatment has always been a matter of tremendous interest as slow responders are most likely to relapse and/or develop complications. Pulmonary tissue healing as assessed with radiology is the only available tool for tissue recovery but is not predictive at intake. The objective of the current study was to assess biomarkers associated with fast and slow recovery in TB patients at recruitment.Methods: Pulmonary TB patients (N=15) were assessed for radiological recovery serially in parallel with clinical signs and symptoms, hematological parameters, and plasma cytokines at 0months, …

2016-01-A3dsrinp-Csc-Sta-Cmb-522-Bps-542, Raymond Pulver, Neal Buxton, Xiaodong Wang, John Lucci, Jean Yves Hervé, Lenore Martin

Bioinformatics Software Design Projects

Cholesterol is carried and transported through bloodstream by lipoproteins. There are two types of lipoproteins: low density lipoprotein, or LDL, and high density lipoprotein, or HDL. LDL cholesterol is considered “bad” cholesterol because it can form plaque and hard deposit leading to arteries clog and make them less flexible. Heart attack or stroke will happen if the hard deposit blocks a narrowed artery. HDL cholesterol helps to remove LDL from the artery back to the liver.

Traditionally, particle counts of LDL and HDL plays an important role to understanding and prediction of heart disease risk. But recently research suggested that …

Renewable Resources: The New “Fossil Fuel”, Christopher Huynh, Crystal Vinuya, Gabriel Samaniego, Desiree Caceres, Yessica Moran

Scholarly and Creative Works Conference (2015 - 2021)

Creating ethanol from renewable resources that can be found around our school campus.

Are Healthcare Providers Prepared To Provide Care For The Lgbt Community?, Sam Dao

Scholarly and Creative Works Conference (2015 - 2021)

Current research generally questions that the healthcare system does not provide as adequate services for the LGBT community as there are for heterosexuals. Baumle’s research show that health care benefits were not equal for LGBT and provided health insurance percentages were lower for gays and lesbians than for heterosexuals (2014). Understanding and improving the factors that influence the health of LGBT people is limited due the the lack of population-based data (The Pride Study 2015). In order to begin improving the health and health care of the LGBT community, awareness and practice of providing appropriate care for this certain population …

Installation Of Outdor Photoluminescent Labyrinth- Umass Amherst, Donna M. Zucker Rn, Phd, Faan, Chris Rucinski, Carolina Aragon

Donna M. Zucker

No abstract provided.

Condom Use Self-Efficacy Measure, Brian E. Mccabe, Natasha Schaefer Solle, Karina Gattamorta, Natalia Villegas, Rosina Cianelli, Victoria B. Mitrani, Nilda Peragallo

SOHNS supplementary Data and Tools

Condom self-efficacy is an important construct for HIV/STI prevention and intervention. This is a measure of self-efficacy for using condoms designed for Hispanic women (in Spanish or English). Either a 15-item measure or a brief 5-item version may be used. All items have a ten-point scale. Internal consistency of the full measure was good (Cronbach’s alpha = .92), as was the brief scale was (Cronbach’s alpha = .80). The total score of the brief scale was significantly correlated with the full scale total score, r_s = .93, p < .001.

Human Anatomy And Physiology Preparatory Course: Part 1 Of 4 (Interactive), Carlos Liachovitzky

Open Educational Resources

The overall purpose of these preparatory course set of learning objectives is to help students familiarize with some terms and some basic concepts they will find later in the Human Anatomy and Physiology I course.

These 40+ learning objectives to prepare for Human Anatomy and Physiology can be downloaded and played in a desktop, or laptop (windows exe file).

The entire course has four parts:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4

Each learning objective is followed by a set of multiple choice question similar to those found later in a Human Anatomy and Physiology course.

The organization and …

Outcomes In Patients With Vestibular Schwannoma After Subtotal Resection And Adjuvant Radiosurgery, H. Radwan, M. Bruce Eisenberg, J. P. S. Knisely, M. M. Ghaly, M. Schulder

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.