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Teledentistry In Dentistry, Jaycee Murray, Lauren Chestnut

Dental Hygiene Student Research Posters

Teledentistry is an online service that is utilized in many dental offices allowing for clinicians to virtually meet with patients using interactive tools and telecommunications. This method of care has been extremely beneficial to both the patient and clinician as it continues to become popular and more developed, it increases access to care for many populations by minimizing the cost of dental treatment and providing more convenient care options. Through teledentistry, problems that impact patients' access to care such as unequal access, lack of financial resources, and lack of practice availability are eliminated, allowing for different populations to receive consultation, …

Privacy Preserving Self-Service Degauss Based Geomarker Portal, Harpreet Gill, Kushal Vallambhatla, Mark A. Hoffman, Kevin Power, Catherine Jackson

Posters

DeGAUSS offers a privacy-preserving capability to annotate a list of addresses with geomarker information that is useful for social determinants and other research. The standard delivery of DeGAUSS requires command line proficiency, potentially limiting the group of users. We provide a self-service portal that enables researchers to load a file and receive a downloadable annotated output file. In our pilot phase, the system has processed 481 calls for more than 45,000 addresses at Children’s Mercy.

Delivering Healthcare To The Underserved, Edward Booty

Asian Management Insights

Non-profits, governments, and businesses need to come together and use a data-driven approach to improve local basic healthcare access.

November 2023, Swosu Bulldog Wellness Committee

SWOSU BULLDOG WELLNESS

Eat Right, Every Bite

An Apple a Day …

Staff and faculty MASSAGES

Five Tips for Exercising Safely in Cold Weather

Parents' Desire To Change Phone Use: Associations With Objective Smartphone Use And Feelings About Problematic Use And Distraction., Brandon T. Mcdaniel Phd, Jessica Pater, Victor P. Cornet Ms, Safia Mughal, Lauren Reining, Alexandria Schaller, Jenny Radesky, Michelle Drouin Phd

Health Services and Informatics Research

We examined objective smartphone use (via a mobile sensing application) and self-reported desire to change phone use among a sample of 268 U.S. parents of infants. Using the Transtheoretical Stages of Change model as a conceptual foundation, we contextualized their attitudes and behaviors and explored how phone use and desire to change relate to perceptions of distraction and problematic phone use around their child. Latent profile analysis of parents' precontemplation, contemplation, and action scores revealed two classes-precontemplators (15%) and contemplators (85%). Contemplators-those considering or desiring change-showed more bedtime phone use and general social networking than precontemplors; however, there were no …

Cost And Utilization Of Healthcare Services For Persons With Diabetes., Evan L Reynolds, Kara Mizokami-Stout, Nathaniel M Putnam, Mousumi Banerjee, Dana Albright, Lynn Ang, Joyce Lee, Rodica Pop-Busui, Eva L Feldman, Brian C Callaghan

Health Services and Informatics Research

AIMS: Describe and compare healthcare costs and utilization for insured persons with type 1 diabetes (T1D), type 2 diabetes (T2D), and without diabetes in the United States.

METHODS: Using a nationally representative healthcare claims database, we identified matched persons with T1D, T2D, and without diabetes using a propensity score quasi-randomization technique. In each year between 2009 and 2018, we report costs (total and out-of-pocket) and utilization for all healthcare services and those specific to medications, diabetes-related supplies, visits to providers, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits.

RESULTS: In 2018, we found out-of-pocket costs and total costs were highest for persons with …

Individual- And Neighborhood-Level Characteristics Of Lung Cancer Screening Participants Undergoing Telemedicine Shared Decision Making, Christine S. Shusted, Hee-Soon Juon, Brooke Ruane, Brian M. Till, Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, Russell K. Mcintire, Tyler Grenda, Olugbenga Okusanya, Nathaniel R. Evans, Gregory C. Kane, Julie Barta

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Although lung cancer screening (LCS) for high-risk individuals reduces lung cancer mortality in clinical trial settings, many questions remain about how to implement high-quality LCS in real-world programs. With the increasing use of telemedicine in healthcare, studies examining this approach in the context of LCS are urgently needed. We aimed to identify sociodemographic and other factors associated with screening completion among individuals undergoing telemedicine Shared Decision Making (SDM) for LCS.

METHODS: This retrospective study examined patients who completed Shared Decision Making (SDM) via telemedicine between May 4, 2020 - March 18, 2021 in a centralized LCS program. Individuals were …

The Benefits Of Telehealth For Rural Communities, Cade Alberson, Taylor Alberson

Scholars Week

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Telephone Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Performance In Current Practice In Saudi Arabia, Meshary Binhotan, Joanne Turnbull, Graham Petley, Nawfal Aljerian, Mohammad Altuwaijri

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Objectives: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a global health problem with a low survival rate. Telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR) guidance by emergency medical services (EMS) dispatchers can improve CPR performance and, consequently, survival rates. Accordingly, the American Heart Association (AHA) has released performance standards for T-CPR in current practice to improve its quality. However, no study has examined T-CPR performance in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate T-CPR performance in the Saudi Arabian EMS system.

Methods: A retrospective observation of OHCA calls in current practice was conducted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. OHCA calls were reviewed to identify those …

A Portable And Reliable Tool For On-Site Physical Reaction Time (Rt) Measurement, Brent Harper, Michael Shiraishi, Rahul Soangra

Physical Therapy Faculty Articles and Research

The drop-stick test system (DTS) invention has the capability to measure reaction accurately for sideline mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) assessment. The reaction time (RT) measurements showed moderate to good inter-instrument reliability with an overall ICC of 0.82 (95 % CI 0.78–0.85). RT is a useful biomarker of mTBI or concussion, but existing technologies in controlled laboratory environments are not feasible for assessments in the field. With wearable technologies and wireless connection with smartphones, it is now easier to conduct RT assessments on the field. The purpose was to develop a portable DTS involving wearable inertial sensors translatable from the …

Comparing Two Telehealth Approaches For Treating Psychiatric Disorders In Primary Care, Reach Dissemination Committee, Maine, Usa

REACH: Research Evidence-to-Action for Community Health

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are community clinics that provide primary care in rural and other underserved areas. FQHCs often don’t have enough mental health specialists to treat patients with complex mental health conditions.

Understanding The Effect Of Counterfactual Explanations On Trust And Reliance On Ai For Human-Ai Collaborative Clinical Decision Making, Min Hun Lee, Chong Jun Chew

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being considered to assist human decision-making in high-stake domains (e.g. health). However, researchers have discussed an issue that humans can over-rely on wrong suggestions of the AI model instead of achieving human AI complementary performance. In this work, we utilized salient feature explanations along with what-if, counterfactual explanations to make humans review AI suggestions more analytically to reduce overreliance on AI and explored the effect of these explanations on trust and reliance on AI during clinical decision-making. We conducted an experiment with seven therapists and ten laypersons on the task of assessing post-stroke survivors' quality …

September / October 2023, Randy Curry, Cindy Brooks

RURAL ROCKS

This is the September & October 2023 issue of Rural Rocks from the SWOSU College of Pharmacy.

Mda Advocacy Report: 2023 To Date, And What’S Next, Jason Mashni Dds

The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association

This article is a recap of MDA legislative advocacy accomplishments and what is on the horizon for the remainder of 2023, written by the chair of the MDA Committee on Governmental and Insurance Affairs.

October 2023, Swosu Bulldog Wellness Committee

SWOSU BULLDOG WELLNESS

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

MoveSpring Spooktacular Step Challenge

Gluten Free Halloween Puppy Chow

School-Issued Devices For Home Use In Kindergarten Through 5th Grade And Parent Perceptions Of Child Learning, Behavior, And Conflict, Brandon T. Mcdaniel Phd, Nathalie Gullo, Zachary Kaiser, Lauren Reining, I. Joyce Chang, Michelle Drouin Phd

Health Services and Informatics Research

With many U.S. schools adopting 1-to-1 school device programs, research on the potential impacts of this device usage at home is critical. In this study, we examined elementary school parents’ perceptions of their child’s use of their school-issued device for academic skill-building and entertainment at home. We then examined the associations between these different types of use and children’s learning, behavior, and parent-child conflict over the device use. Overall, we found that children’s use of school devices at home for building academic skills was predictive of positive impacts on learning and child behaviors and less frequent parent-child conflict over …

Patient And Provider Perceptions Of Rapid Telehealth Implementation During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Ryan G. Seibert, Amanda K. Stephenson, Aubrey K. Podell, Yuxiu K. Lei, Sheri K. Keitz

The Lahey Journal

Introduction: Despite unprecedented telehealth adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic, its post-pandemic preservation remains uncertain. Understanding key stakeholders’ perspectives on telehealth during the pandemic can inform evidence-based policies and promote effective, sustainable virtual-based care.

Methods: Patients and providers who completed telehealth visits during the early pandemic in primary care, subspecialty, and surgical outpatient clinics at a large community-based academic medical center in New England were surveyed via telephone interviews or electronic surveys. Thematic analyses of qualitative comments further characterized experiences.

Results: Of 1,729 eligible patients called, 969 were contacted and 778 participated (response rate 80.3% among contacted patients). Among 753 eligible …

Evaluation Of Negative Binomial And Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Models For The Analysis Of Zero-Inflated Count Data: Application To The Telemedicine For Children With Medical Complexity Trial, Kyung Hyun Lee, Claudia Pedroza, Elenir B C Avritscher, Ricardo A Mosquera, Jon E Tyson

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Two characteristics of commonly used outcomes in medical research are zero inflation and non-negative integers; examples include the number of hospital admissions or emergency department visits, where the majority of patients will have zero counts. Zero-inflated regression models were devised to analyze this type of data. However, the performance of zero-inflated regression models or the properties of data best suited for these analyses have not been thoroughly investigated.

METHODS: We conducted a simulation study to evaluate the performance of two generalized linear models, negative binomial and zero-inflated negative binomial, for analyzing zero-inflated count data. Simulation scenarios assumed a randomized …

A Retrospective Review Of 30-Day Hospital Readmission Risk After Open Heart Surgery In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation, Varun Rao, Genaro Deleon, Aish Thamba, Mindy Flanagan, Kathleen Nickel, Michael Gerue, Douglas Gray

Health Services and Informatics Research

No abstract provided.

A Retrospective Review Of 30-Day Hospital Readmission Risk After Open Heart Surgery In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation, Varun Ashutosh Rao, Genaro Deleon, Aish Thamba, Mindy Flanagan, Kathleen Nickel, Douglas Gray Md

Medical Student Research

Introduction

Readmission rates after open heart surgery (OHS) remain an important clinical issue. The causes are varied, with identifying risk factors potentially providing valuable information to reduce healthcare costs and the rate of post-operative complications. This study aimed to characterize the reasons for 30-day hospital readmission rates of patients after open heart surgery.

Methods

All patients over 18 years of age undergoing OHS at a community hospital from January 2020 through December 2020 were identified. Demographic data, medical history, operative reports, post-operative complications, and telehealth interventions were obtained through chart review. Descriptive statistics and readmission rates were calculated, along with …