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A Training Curriculum For An Mhealth Supported Peer Counseling Program To Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding In Rural India, Roopa M. Bellad, Niranjana S. Mahantshetti, Umesh S. Charantimath, Tony Ma, Yukiko Washio, Vanessa L. Short, Katie Chang, Parth Lalakia, Frances J. Jaeger, Patricia J. Kelly, Geetanjali Mungarwadi, Chandrashekar C. Karadiguddi, Shivaprasad S. Goudar, Richard J. Derman Jan 2023

A Training Curriculum For An Mhealth Supported Peer Counseling Program To Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding In Rural India, Roopa M. Bellad, Niranjana S. Mahantshetti, Umesh S. Charantimath, Tony Ma, Yukiko Washio, Vanessa L. Short, Katie Chang, Parth Lalakia, Frances J. Jaeger, Patricia J. Kelly, Geetanjali Mungarwadi, Chandrashekar C. Karadiguddi, Shivaprasad S. Goudar, Richard J. Derman

Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Despite strong evidence about the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding, that is the baby receiving only breast milk, no other foods or liquids, rates have remained relatively unchanged over the past two decades in low- and middle-income countries. One strategy for increasing exclusive breastfeeding is through community-based programs that use peer counselors for education and support. The use of mobile health applications is also gaining increasing applicability in these countries. Minimal information is available about training peer counselors in the use of mobile technologies to support exclusive breastfeeding. The present article describes our curriculum in the state of Karnataka, India …


Circadian Rhythms As Modulators Of Brain Health During Development And Throughout Aging, Rachel Van Drunen, Kristin Eckel-Mahan Jan 2023

Circadian Rhythms As Modulators Of Brain Health During Development And Throughout Aging, Rachel Van Drunen, Kristin Eckel-Mahan

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The circadian clock plays a prominent role in neurons during development and throughout aging. This review covers topics pertinent to the role of 24-h rhythms in neuronal development and function, and their tendency to decline with aging. Pharmacological or behavioral modification that augment the function of our internal clock may be central to decline of cognitive disease and to future chronotherapy for aging-related diseases of the central nervous system.


Long-Term Bidirectional Association Between Asthma And Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Big Data Cohort Study, Hye Jin Park, Young Hyeon Kim, Da Ye Na, Seong Won Jeong, Min Gyu Lee, Jong-Hwan Lee, Yun Na Yang, Min Gu Kang, Sang Woo Yeom, Jong Seung Kim Jan 2023

Long-Term Bidirectional Association Between Asthma And Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Big Data Cohort Study, Hye Jin Park, Young Hyeon Kim, Da Ye Na, Seong Won Jeong, Min Gyu Lee, Jong-Hwan Lee, Yun Na Yang, Min Gu Kang, Sang Woo Yeom, Jong Seung Kim

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have argued that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with asthma. However, reliable evidence to verify this association has not yet been reported.

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the bidirectional association between asthma and ADHD through a 12-year big data cohort study.

METHODS: The independent variable group was extracted from 3.5 million individuals randomly sampled by the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS). In Study 1, the incidence of ADHD according to asthma was evaluated, while in Study 2, the incidence of asthma according to ADHD was analyzed. Propensity score (PS) matching with several variables was used to obtain …


A Comprehensive Assessment Of Cell Type-Specific Differential Expression Methods In Bulk Data, Guanqun Meng, Wen Tang, Emina Huang, Ziyi Li, Hao Feng Jan 2023

A Comprehensive Assessment Of Cell Type-Specific Differential Expression Methods In Bulk Data, Guanqun Meng, Wen Tang, Emina Huang, Ziyi Li, Hao Feng

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Accounting for cell type compositions has been very successful at analyzing high-throughput data from heterogeneous tissues. Differential gene expression analysis at cell type level is becoming increasingly popular, yielding biomarker discovery in a finer granularity within a particular cell type. Although several computational methods have been developed to identify cell type-specific differentially expressed genes (csDEG) from RNA-seq data, a systematic evaluation is yet to be performed. Here, we thoroughly benchmark six recently published methods: CellDMC, CARseq, TOAST, LRCDE, CeDAR and TCA, together with two classical methods, csSAM and DESeq2, for a comprehensive comparison. We aim to systematically evaluate the performance …


Editorial: A Surgeon’S Framework For The Unplanned Intraoperative Consultation, Sunjay Kumar, Talar Tatarian, Francesco Palazzo Jan 2023

Editorial: A Surgeon’S Framework For The Unplanned Intraoperative Consultation, Sunjay Kumar, Talar Tatarian, Francesco Palazzo

Department of Surgery Faculty Papers

Surgeons during their career will likely be called in to assist or offer advice with an unanticipated intraoperative event or finding. Yet, there is no practical framework of how to respond to these consults nor is there any formal training in this area.

Review of the limited literature and expert senior opinion can help explain the ethical components involved but do not address some of the practical aspects that the consulting surgeon may need to confront when responding to an unplanned intraoperative consultation.

In this manuscript we present a selected review of the available literature on the topic, establish some …


Ultrasound Assessment Of Spastic Muscles In Ambulatory Chronic Stroke Survivors Reveals Function-Dependent Changes, Javier González-Buonomo, Alexander H Pham, Jaskiran Ghuman, Aila Malik, Nuray Yozbatiran, Gerard E Francisco, Walter R Frontera, Sheng Li Jan 2023

Ultrasound Assessment Of Spastic Muscles In Ambulatory Chronic Stroke Survivors Reveals Function-Dependent Changes, Javier González-Buonomo, Alexander H Pham, Jaskiran Ghuman, Aila Malik, Nuray Yozbatiran, Gerard E Francisco, Walter R Frontera, Sheng Li

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVE: To correlate ultrasound characteristics of spastic muscles with clinical and functional measurements in chronic stroke survivors.

METHODS: Ultrasound assessment and clinical and functional assessments were performed in 28 ambulatory stroke survivors (12 females, mean age 57.8 ± 11.8 years, 76 ± 45 months after stroke).

RESULTS: Muscle thickness in the affected side was decreased compared with the contralateral side (p < 0.001). The decrease was more evident in the upper limb muscles. On the affected side, the modified Heckmatt scale score was lowest (closer to normal) in the rectus femoris (RF) muscle compared with other muscles (biceps brachii (BB), flexor carpi ulnaris (FCU) and medial gastrocnemius (MG)). Muscle thickness and echogenicity of spastic muscles did not correlate with spasticity, as measured with the modified Ashworth scale (MAS), Fugl-Meyer motor assessment scores, age, or time since stroke. There was a significant negative correlation between grip strength and percentage decrease in muscle thickness for the spastic FCU muscle (r = -0.49, p = 0.008). RF muscle thickness correlated with ambulatory function (Timed Up and Go test (r = 0.44, p = 0.021) and 6-metre walk test (r = 0.41, p = 0.032)). There was no significant correlation between echogenicity and functional assessments Conclusion: Ambulatory chronic stroke survivors had function-dependent changes in muscle thickness on the affected side. Muscle thickness and echogenicity of spastic muscles did not correlate with spasticity, Fugl-Meyer motor assessment scores, age, or time since stroke.


Cortical Connectomic Mediations On Gamma Band Synchronization In Schizophrenia, Xiaoming Du, Stephanie Hare, Ann Summerfelt, Bhim M Adhikari, Laura Garcia, Wyatt Marshall, Peng Zan, Mark Kvarta, Eric Goldwaser, Heather Bruce, Si Gao, Hemalatha Sampath, Peter Kochunov, Jonathan Z Simon, L Elliot Hong Jan 2023

Cortical Connectomic Mediations On Gamma Band Synchronization In Schizophrenia, Xiaoming Du, Stephanie Hare, Ann Summerfelt, Bhim M Adhikari, Laura Garcia, Wyatt Marshall, Peng Zan, Mark Kvarta, Eric Goldwaser, Heather Bruce, Si Gao, Hemalatha Sampath, Peter Kochunov, Jonathan Z Simon, L Elliot Hong

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Aberrant gamma frequency neural oscillations in schizophrenia have been well demonstrated using auditory steady-state responses (ASSR). However, the neural circuits underlying 40 Hz ASSR deficits in schizophrenia remain poorly understood. Sixty-six patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and 85 age- and gender-matched healthy controls completed one electroencephalography session measuring 40 Hz ASSR and one imaging session for resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) assessments. The associations between the normalized power of 40 Hz ASSR and rsFC were assessed via linear regression and mediation models. We found that rsFC among auditory, precentral, postcentral, and prefrontal cortices were positively associated with 40 Hz ASSR in …


Control Of Craniofacial Development By The Collagen Receptor, Discoidin Domain Receptor 2, Fatma F Mohamed, Chunxi Ge, Shawn A Hallett, Alec C Bancroft, Randy T Cowling, Noriaki Ono, Abdul-Aziz Binrayes, Barry Greenberg, Benjamin Levi, Vesa M Kaartinen, Renny T Franceschi Jan 2023

Control Of Craniofacial Development By The Collagen Receptor, Discoidin Domain Receptor 2, Fatma F Mohamed, Chunxi Ge, Shawn A Hallett, Alec C Bancroft, Randy T Cowling, Noriaki Ono, Abdul-Aziz Binrayes, Barry Greenberg, Benjamin Levi, Vesa M Kaartinen, Renny T Franceschi

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Development of the craniofacial skeleton requires interactions between progenitor cells and the collagen-rich extracellular matrix (ECM). The mediators of these interactions are not well-defined. Mutations in the discoidin domain receptor 2 gene (DDR2), which encodes a non-integrin collagen receptor, are associated with human craniofacial abnormalities, such as midface hypoplasia and open fontanels. However, the exact role of this gene in craniofacial morphogenesis is not known. As will be shown, Ddr2-deficient mice exhibit defects in craniofacial bones including impaired calvarial growth and frontal suture formation, cranial base hypoplasia due to aberrant chondrogenesis and delayed ossification at growth plate …


Pharmacological Management Of Disease By Overcoming Structural Adversity, Richard N Sifers Jan 2023

Pharmacological Management Of Disease By Overcoming Structural Adversity, Richard N Sifers

Center on Aging Staff Publications

In this issue of Cell Chemical Biology, Sun et al. utilize computational and protein expression analyses, plus pharmacological proteostasis network activation, to simultaneously correct two genetic diseases linked to a single protein rather than modify the responsible DNA.


The “Evolving” Role Of Intravascular Imaging In Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructive Coronary Arteries, D L Fischman, Vaikom S. Mahadevan, Eric R. Bates Jan 2023

The “Evolving” Role Of Intravascular Imaging In Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructive Coronary Arteries, D L Fischman, Vaikom S. Mahadevan, Eric R. Bates

Division of Internal Medicine Faculty Papers & Presentations

No abstract provided.


Dynamic Imine Bonding Facilitates Mannan Release From A Nanofibrous Peptide Hydrogel, Brett H Pogostin, Gabriel Saenz, Carson C Cole, Erin M Euliano, Jeffrey D Hartgerink, Kevin J Mchugh Jan 2023

Dynamic Imine Bonding Facilitates Mannan Release From A Nanofibrous Peptide Hydrogel, Brett H Pogostin, Gabriel Saenz, Carson C Cole, Erin M Euliano, Jeffrey D Hartgerink, Kevin J Mchugh

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Recently, there has been increased interest in using mannan as an immunomodulatory bioconjugate. Despite notable immunological and functional differences between the reduced (R-Man) and oxidized (O-Man) forms of mannan, little is known about the impact of mannan oxidation state on its in vivo persistence or its potential controlled release from biomaterials that may improve immunotherapeutic or prophylactic efficacy. Here, we investigate the impact of oxidation state on the in vitro and in vivo release of mannan from a biocompatible and immunostimulatory multidomain peptide hydrogel, K2(SL)6K2 (abbreviated as K2), that has been previously used for the controlled release of protein and …


Expert Opinions And Clinical Experiences With Chlormethine Gel As Maintenance Treatment For Patients With Mycosis Fungoides, Larisa Geskin, Christiane Querfeld, Emmilia Hodak, Neda Nikbakht, Evangelia Papadavid, Marco Ardigò, Ulrike Wehkamp, Martine Bagot Jan 2023

Expert Opinions And Clinical Experiences With Chlormethine Gel As Maintenance Treatment For Patients With Mycosis Fungoides, Larisa Geskin, Christiane Querfeld, Emmilia Hodak, Neda Nikbakht, Evangelia Papadavid, Marco Ardigò, Ulrike Wehkamp, Martine Bagot

Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology Faculty Papers

Maintenance treatment can be recommended for patients with mycosis fungoides (MF) whose disease responds to primary treatment. While positive outcomes have been observed in small studies with maintenance therapy, there is a lack of practical guidelines and agreement on when and how maintenance therapy for MF should be approached. In this article, we discuss expert opinions and clinical experiences on the topic of maintenance therapy for patients with MF, with a focus on chlormethine gel. Ideally, patients should have a durable response before initiating maintenance therapy. The definition of and required duration of durable response are topics that are open …


Multimodality Annotated Hepatocellular Carcinoma Data Set Including Pre- And Post-Tace With Imaging Segmentation, Ahmed W Moawad, Ali Morshid, Ahmed M Khalaf, Mohab M Elmohr, John D Hazle, David Fuentes, Mohamed Badawy, Ahmed O Kaseb, Manal Hassan, Armeen Mahvash, Janio Szklaruk, Aliyya Qayyum, Abdelrahman Abusaif, William C Bennett, Tracy S Nolan, Brittney Camp, Khaled M Elsayes Jan 2023

Multimodality Annotated Hepatocellular Carcinoma Data Set Including Pre- And Post-Tace With Imaging Segmentation, Ahmed W Moawad, Ali Morshid, Ahmed M Khalaf, Mohab M Elmohr, John D Hazle, David Fuentes, Mohamed Badawy, Ahmed O Kaseb, Manal Hassan, Armeen Mahvash, Janio Szklaruk, Aliyya Qayyum, Abdelrahman Abusaif, William C Bennett, Tracy S Nolan, Brittney Camp, Khaled M Elsayes

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver neoplasm, and its incidence has doubled over the past two decades owing to increasing risk factors. Despite surveillance, most HCC cases are diagnosed at advanced stages and can only be treated using transarterial chemo-embolization (TACE) or systemic therapy. TACE failure may occur with incidence reaching up to 60% of cases, leaving patients with a financial and emotional burden. Radiomics has emerged as a new tool capable of predicting tumor response to TACE from pre-procedural computed tomography (CT) studies. This data report defines the HCC-TACE data collection of confirmed HCC patients who …


Met Amplification As A Resistance Driver To Tki Therapies In Lung Cancer: Clinical Challenges And Opportunities, Kang Qin, Lingzhi Hong, Jianjun Zhang, Xiuning Le Jan 2023

Met Amplification As A Resistance Driver To Tki Therapies In Lung Cancer: Clinical Challenges And Opportunities, Kang Qin, Lingzhi Hong, Jianjun Zhang, Xiuning Le

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Targeted therapy has emerged as an important pillar for the standard of care in oncogene-driven non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which significantly improved outcomes of patients whose tumors harbor oncogenic driver mutations. However, tumors eventually develop resistance to targeted drugs, and mechanisms of resistance can be diverse.


The Safety Of Appropriate Use Of Over-The-Counter Proton Pump Inhibitors: An Evidence-Based Review And Delphi Consensus, Wilfredo De Jesús-Rojas, Jesús Meléndez-Montañez, José Muñiz-Hernández, André Marra-Nazario, Francisco Alvarado-Huerta, Arnaldo Santos-López, Marcos J Ramos-Benitez, Ricardo A Mosquera Jan 2023

The Safety Of Appropriate Use Of Over-The-Counter Proton Pump Inhibitors: An Evidence-Based Review And Delphi Consensus, Wilfredo De Jesús-Rojas, Jesús Meléndez-Montañez, José Muñiz-Hernández, André Marra-Nazario, Francisco Alvarado-Huerta, Arnaldo Santos-López, Marcos J Ramos-Benitez, Ricardo A Mosquera

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The radial spoke head protein 4 homolog A (RSPH4A) gene is one of more than 50 genes that cause Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), a rare genetic ciliopathy. Genetic mutations in the RSPH4A gene alter an important protein structure involved in ciliary pathogenesis. Radial spoke proteins, such as RSPH4A, have been conserved across multiple species. In humans, ciliary function deficiency caused by RSPH4A pathogenic variants results in a clinical phenotype characterized by recurrent oto-sino-pulmonary infections. More than 30 pathogenic RSPH4A genetic variants have been associated with PCD. In Puerto Rican Hispanics, a founder mutation (RSPH4A (c.921+3_921+6delAAGT (intronic)) has …


Multisite Evaluation Of Prediction Models For Emergency Department Crowding Before And During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ari J Smith, Brian W Patterson, Michael S Pulia, John Mayer, Rebecca J Schwei, Radha Nagarajan, Frank Liao, Manish N Shah, Justin J Boutilier Jan 2023

Multisite Evaluation Of Prediction Models For Emergency Department Crowding Before And During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ari J Smith, Brian W Patterson, Michael S Pulia, John Mayer, Rebecca J Schwei, Radha Nagarajan, Frank Liao, Manish N Shah, Justin J Boutilier

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVE: To develop a machine learning framework to forecast emergency department (ED) crowding and to evaluate model performance under spatial and temporal data drift.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: We obtained 4 datasets, identified by the location: 1-large academic hospital and 2-rural hospital, and time period: pre-coronavirus disease (COVID) (January 1, 2019-February 1, 2020) and COVID-era (May 15, 2020-February 1, 2021). Our primary target was a binary outcome that is equal to 1 if the number of patients with acute respiratory illness that were ED boarding for more than 4 h was above a prescribed historical percentile. We trained a random forest …


Parental Contextual Factors And Decision-Making Related To Periviable Birth: An Integrative Review, Amy L. Wright, Elizabeth Mens, Gausiha Rathitharan Jan 2023

Parental Contextual Factors And Decision-Making Related To Periviable Birth: An Integrative Review, Amy L. Wright, Elizabeth Mens, Gausiha Rathitharan

The Qualitative Report

Parents facing a periviable birth, or birth before 25 weeks of gestation, commonly engage in antenatal consultation with healthcare providers to determine a plan of care. Parents’ pre-existing contextual factors, beliefs, and values influence their decisions regarding birth and the care of their infant. This study aims to understand the role of parental contextual factors and best-practices to their integration during antenatal consultation The Whittemore and Knafl (2005) approach to conducting an integrative review along with thematic analysis was employed to determine and present the findings. Results describe three themes related to how contextual factors influence parental decision-making: personal values …


Association Of Omega 3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids With Incident Chronic Kidney Disease: Pooled Analysis Of 19 Cohorts, Kwok Leung Ong, Matti Marklund, Liping Huang, Kerry-Anne Rye, Nicholas Hui, Xiong-Fei Pan, Casey M Rebholz, Hyunju Kim, Lyn M Steffen, Anniek C Van Westing, Johanna M Geleijnse, Ellen K Hoogeveen, Yun-Yu Chen, Kuo-Liong Chien, Amanda M Fretts, Rozenn N Lemaitre, Fumiaki Imamura, Nita G Forouhi, Nicholas J Wareham, Anna Birukov, Susanne Jäger, Olga Kuxhaus, Matthias B Schulze, Vanessa Derenji De Mello, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Matti Uusitupa, Jaana Lindström, Nathan Tintle, William S Harris, Keisuke Yamasaki, Yoichiro Hirakawa, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Toshiko Tanaka, Luigi Ferrucci, Stefania Bandinelli, Jyrki K Virtanen, Ari Voutilainen, Tharusha Jayasena, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Anne Poljak, Sonia Bustamante, Perminder S Sachdev, Mackenzie K Senn, Stephen S Rich, Michael Y Tsai, Alexis C Wood, Markku Laakso, Maria Lankinen, Xiaowei Yang, Liang Sun, Huaixing Li, Xu Lin, Christoph Nowak, Johan Ärnlöv, Ulf Risérus, Lars Lind, Mélanie Le Goff, Cécilia Samieri, Catherine Helmer, Frank Qian, Renata Micha, Adrienne Tin, Anna Köttgen, Ian H De Boer, David S Siscovick, Dariush Mozaffarian, Jason Hy Wu Jan 2023

Association Of Omega 3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids With Incident Chronic Kidney Disease: Pooled Analysis Of 19 Cohorts, Kwok Leung Ong, Matti Marklund, Liping Huang, Kerry-Anne Rye, Nicholas Hui, Xiong-Fei Pan, Casey M Rebholz, Hyunju Kim, Lyn M Steffen, Anniek C Van Westing, Johanna M Geleijnse, Ellen K Hoogeveen, Yun-Yu Chen, Kuo-Liong Chien, Amanda M Fretts, Rozenn N Lemaitre, Fumiaki Imamura, Nita G Forouhi, Nicholas J Wareham, Anna Birukov, Susanne Jäger, Olga Kuxhaus, Matthias B Schulze, Vanessa Derenji De Mello, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Matti Uusitupa, Jaana Lindström, Nathan Tintle, William S Harris, Keisuke Yamasaki, Yoichiro Hirakawa, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Toshiko Tanaka, Luigi Ferrucci, Stefania Bandinelli, Jyrki K Virtanen, Ari Voutilainen, Tharusha Jayasena, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Anne Poljak, Sonia Bustamante, Perminder S Sachdev, Mackenzie K Senn, Stephen S Rich, Michael Y Tsai, Alexis C Wood, Markku Laakso, Maria Lankinen, Xiaowei Yang, Liang Sun, Huaixing Li, Xu Lin, Christoph Nowak, Johan Ärnlöv, Ulf Risérus, Lars Lind, Mélanie Le Goff, Cécilia Samieri, Catherine Helmer, Frank Qian, Renata Micha, Adrienne Tin, Anna Köttgen, Ian H De Boer, David S Siscovick, Dariush Mozaffarian, Jason Hy Wu

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

OBJECTIVE: To assess the prospective associations of circulating levels of omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (n-3 PUFA) biomarkers (including plant derived α linolenic acid and seafood derived eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid, and docosahexaenoic acid) with incident chronic kidney disease (CKD).

DESIGN: Pooled analysis.

DATA SOURCES: A consortium of 19 studies from 12 countries identified up to May 2020.

STUDY SELECTION: Prospective studies with measured n-3 PUFA biomarker data and incident CKD based on estimated glomerular filtration rate.

DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS: Each participating cohort conducted de novo analysis with prespecified and consistent exposures, outcomes, covariates, and models. The results were …


Nudging Health Care Providers' Adoption Of Clinical Decision Support: Protocol For The User-Centered Development Of A Behavioral Economics-Inspired Electronic Health Record Tool, Safiya Richardson, Katherine Dauber-Decker, Jeffrey Solomon, Sundas Khan, Douglas Barnaby, John Chelico, Michael Qiu, Yan Liu, Devin Mann, Renee Pekmezaris, Thomas Mcginn, Michael Diefenbach Jan 2023

Nudging Health Care Providers' Adoption Of Clinical Decision Support: Protocol For The User-Centered Development Of A Behavioral Economics-Inspired Electronic Health Record Tool, Safiya Richardson, Katherine Dauber-Decker, Jeffrey Solomon, Sundas Khan, Douglas Barnaby, John Chelico, Michael Qiu, Yan Liu, Devin Mann, Renee Pekmezaris, Thomas Mcginn, Michael Diefenbach

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: The improvements in care resulting from clinical decision support (CDS) have been significantly limited by consistently low health care provider adoption. Health care provider attitudes toward CDS, specifically psychological and behavioral barriers, are not typically addressed during any stage of CDS development, although they represent an important barrier to adoption. Emerging evidence has shown the surprising power of using insights from the field of behavioral economics to address psychological and behavioral barriers. Nudges are formal applications of behavioral economics, defined as positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions that have a nonforced effect on decision-making.

OBJECTIVE: Our goal is to employ …


Correction To: Stabilization Of Mcl-1 By E3 Ligase Traf4 Confers Radioresistance, Ming Li, Feng Gao, Xiaoying Li, Yu Gan, Shuangze Han, Xinfang Yu, Haidan Liu, Wei Li Jan 2023

Correction To: Stabilization Of Mcl-1 By E3 Ligase Traf4 Confers Radioresistance, Ming Li, Feng Gao, Xiaoying Li, Yu Gan, Shuangze Han, Xinfang Yu, Haidan Liu, Wei Li

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

No abstract provided.


Generation Of A Tree Shrew Breast Cancer Model Using Lentivirus Expressing Pik3ca-H1047r, Li Zeng, Hong-Yan Zhang, Chuan-Yu Yang, Zhuo Cheng, Qiu-Yun Jiang, Yao Luo, Yi Li, Fu-Bing Li, Ce-Shi Chen Jan 2023

Generation Of A Tree Shrew Breast Cancer Model Using Lentivirus Expressing Pik3ca-H1047r, Li Zeng, Hong-Yan Zhang, Chuan-Yu Yang, Zhuo Cheng, Qiu-Yun Jiang, Yao Luo, Yi Li, Fu-Bing Li, Ce-Shi Chen

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

No abstract provided.


The Challenges Of Conducting Clinical Trials For Patients With Cardiogenic Shock, Sunil Rao Jan 2023

The Challenges Of Conducting Clinical Trials For Patients With Cardiogenic Shock, Sunil Rao

Journal of Shock and Hemodynamics

Cardiogenic shock due to ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Patients in shock are acutely ill, and clinicians may lack equipoise, thus presenting a challenge to developing high-quality evidence to guide practice. This review will summarize these challenges and offer possible solutions.


Mommy, Me, And We: Why Black Mothers Have Turned To Doulas, Janessa Harris Jan 2023

Mommy, Me, And We: Why Black Mothers Have Turned To Doulas, Janessa Harris

Crossings: Swarthmore Undergraduate Feminist Research Journal

Maternal mortality rates have disproportionately affected black mothers for far too long due to the lack of value that black bodies hold in medical spaces. Because of this concerns voiced by black people are often disregarded and ignored until the very last minute. But what if this was changed? This paper will focus on how black mothers have worked against Western medical systems that silence our voices, but instead turn to doulas who work to make these mothers feel seen, heard, and cared for. Through this, we make birthing a careful and collective effort to turn Mommy&Me to Mommy&We.


Skin Stories And Family Feelings: The Contradictions Of Skin Picking In Mother And Daughter, Katrina Jacinto Jan 2023

Skin Stories And Family Feelings: The Contradictions Of Skin Picking In Mother And Daughter, Katrina Jacinto

Crossings: Swarthmore Undergraduate Feminist Research Journal

Skin picking, otherwise known as dermatillomania, is considered to be a medical disorder by the DSM-5. However, the embodied experiences of skin picking in myself and my mother do not align with the neat definitions offered by psychiatry. Through autoethnographic material and an ethnographic interview with my mother, I argue that skin picking is a bodily technique that is pathologized through stigma. In particular, I suggest that skin picking reveals the body as a polyvalent entity, in which the same features and practices take on different meanings in different bodies. This frames the discrepancies between mine, and my mother's, experiences. …


Impact Of Perioperative Dexamethasone On Hospital Length Of Stay And Glycemic Control In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty, Vanessa Williams, Mohammad J. Uddin Ansari, Amruta Jaju, Stacey Ward, Daniel O'Keefe, Jumana Abdelkarim, Nicole Montes, Ula Tarabichi, Albert Botchway, Michael G. Jakoby Iv Jan 2023

Impact Of Perioperative Dexamethasone On Hospital Length Of Stay And Glycemic Control In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty, Vanessa Williams, Mohammad J. Uddin Ansari, Amruta Jaju, Stacey Ward, Daniel O'Keefe, Jumana Abdelkarim, Nicole Montes, Ula Tarabichi, Albert Botchway, Michael G. Jakoby Iv

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate effects of perioperative dexamethasone on hospital length of stay (LOS) and glycemic control for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA).

Methods: We performed retrospective case review of THA performed in adults (≥ 18 years old) with type 2 diabetes at Springfield Memorial Hospital (Springfield, IL) immediately before (2013), during (2014), and after (2015) publication of consensus guidelines for use of perioperative dexamethasone. Hospital LOS was the primary endpoint. Capillary blood glucose by hospital day, proportion of patients treated with insulin, and median insulin dose by hospital day …


Comparison Of Parental In-Person Visitation And Webcam Usage Patterns At A Single-Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Shrea Goswami, Emily Mudd, John Chuo, Anirudha Das Jan 2023

Comparison Of Parental In-Person Visitation And Webcam Usage Patterns At A Single-Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Shrea Goswami, Emily Mudd, John Chuo, Anirudha Das

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Purpose: Barriers to parents visiting the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in person for infant bonding include socioeconomic status, distance from NICU, and having children at home. Use of NICU bedside webcam can increase access to parent-infant interaction. This study aimed to describe the pattern of webcam logins by parents, relationship of logins to in-person visitation, and maternal factors affecting usage.

Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, data pertaining to parental webcam logins and in-person visitation, maternal screening for depression, anxiety, and stress, and family sociodemographics were collected from medical records. Relationships between chart variables and webcam or …


A Message To Our 2022 Peer Reviewers: Thank You Jan 2023

A Message To Our 2022 Peer Reviewers: Thank You

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews utilizes a diverse group of scholars to evaluate original submissions. Through this published acknowledgment, the editors of JPCRR express our sincerest gratitude for the generous volunteer contributions made over the previous 12 months by the following clinical, health research, and patient advocacy experts.


Shifting Perspectives: A Qualitative Study To Understand Family Expectations At The Time Of Their Child’S Admission, Rosamarie Maiorella, Avital Fischer, Sumeet L. Banker Jan 2023

Shifting Perspectives: A Qualitative Study To Understand Family Expectations At The Time Of Their Child’S Admission, Rosamarie Maiorella, Avital Fischer, Sumeet L. Banker

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Purpose: Patient-centered approaches to health care acknowledge the important role that families have in patients’ lives. Shared expectations between families and providers have the potential to improve patient and family experience, hospital care, and outcomes. We aimed to understand families’ expectations for their child’s admission from the vantage point of the start of a hospital stay.

Methods: This qualitative research studied families of hospitalized children at a large pediatric tertiary care center. Family members were approached if their child was admitted to the general pediatrics team, was under 18 years of age, had a length of stay less than 5 …


Understanding Quality Of Life In Patients With Acute Leukemia, A Global Survey, Zack Pemberton-Whiteley, Samantha Nier, Jan Geissler, Sophie Wintrich, Bregje Verhoeven, Rita O. Christensen, Sam Salek, Esther Natalie Oliva, Tatyana Ionova, Jennie Bradley Jan 2023

Understanding Quality Of Life In Patients With Acute Leukemia, A Global Survey, Zack Pemberton-Whiteley, Samantha Nier, Jan Geissler, Sophie Wintrich, Bregje Verhoeven, Rita O. Christensen, Sam Salek, Esther Natalie Oliva, Tatyana Ionova, Jennie Bradley

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Purpose: The Acute Leukemia Advocates Network (ALAN) sought to determine which factors are most associated with poor quality of life (QoL) in patients with acute leukemia and to determine key issues and unmet needs through administration of an online survey distributed worldwide via partner patient organizations.

Methods: ALAN developed a questionnaire informed by literature review and based extensively on the hematological malignancy-specific patient-reported outcomes (HM-PRO) measure to assess the impact of acute leukemia on QoL and its relationships with patients’ demographics, disease state, disease impact, and support from health care professionals. Univariate and multivariable statistical analysis was used to investigate …


Neighborhood Condition Prevalence Rates Correlate With Covid-19 Mortality In Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, George L. Morris Iii Jan 2023

Neighborhood Condition Prevalence Rates Correlate With Covid-19 Mortality In Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, George L. Morris Iii

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Purpose: We sought to determine if census tract-level (ie, neighborhood) COVID-19 death rates in Milwaukee County correlated with the census tract-level condition prevalence rates (CPRs) for individual COVID-19 mortality risk.

Methods: This study used Milwaukee County-reported COVID-19 death rates per 100,000 lives for the 296 census tracts within the county to perform a linear regression with individual COVID-19 mortality risk CPR, mean age, racial composition of census tract (by percentage of non-White residents), and poverty (by percentage within census tract), followed by multiple regression with all 7 CPRs as well as the 7 CPRs combined with the additional demographic variables. …