Modernizing WIC Enrollment to Improve Access to Healthy Food for Children and Families
[Cross-posted from CHOP PolicyLab]
Racial Bias in Mortality Prediction Scores
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to face many uncomfortable realities. As critical care physicians, my colleagues and I work in intensive care units (ICUs) that have grown to accommodate the large numbers of patients who have become seriously ill from COVID-19 during the past year. However, the specter of scarcity has been looming. We know that a day may come when there are not enough ICU beds or ventilators for all the patients who need them.
How Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Affects Health Care Utilization: Chart of the Day
Alison Buttenheim's Congressional Testimony on COVID Vaccine Hesitancy
Exploring Inequities in Telemedicine
[Cross-posted from the Tradeoffs Research Corner]
The Ties Between Structural Racism, Voting Rights, and Health Equity
Where the Economy Falters, Deaths from Heart Disease Rise
As the federal government debates the financial stimulus needed to address the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the last recession offers an important reminder of the long-term health effects of a slow and uneven recovery.
Penn Medicine Implements Anti-Racism Program Across Health System
Penn Population Scientists Win NAM Catalyst Grant Award
Non-Adopters of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
[Cross-posted with Penn Center for Mental Health]
The Relationship Between Surgeon Gender and Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Catherine L. Mavroudis, Sarah Landau, Ezra Brooks, Regan Bergmark, Nicholas L. Berlin, Blanche Blumenthal, Zara Cooper, Eun Kyeong Hwang, Elizabeth Lancaster, Jennifer Waljee, Elizabeth Wick, Heather Yeo, Christopher Wirtalla, Rachel R. Kelz
Abstract [from journal]
Objective: To investigate the relationship between surgeon gender and stress during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Background: While female surgeons face difficulties integrating work and home in the best of times, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has presented new challenges. The implications for the female surgical workforce are unknown.
Methods: This cross-sectional, multi-center telephone survey study of surgeons was conducted across five
Penn Nursing's Mobile App Targets HPV Vaccination Gap
Delayed Emergencies: The Composition and Magnitude of Non-Respiratory Emergency Department Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ari B. Friedman, Deidre Barfield, Guy David, Thomas Diller, Candace Gunnarson, Miao Liu, Benjamin V. Vicidomina, Ruthann Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Somesh C. Nigam
Abstract [from journal]
Importance: COVID-19 has been associated with excess mortality among patients not diagnosed with COVID-19, suggesting disruption of acute health care provision may play a role.
Objective: To determine the degree of declines in emergency department (ED) visits attributable to COVID-19 and determine whether these declines were concentrated among patients with fewer comorbidities and lower severity visits.
Design: We conducted a differences-in-differences analysis of all
...Bringing Gynecologic Cancer Care Closer to Patients
For patients with gynecologic cancers, treatment by a specialist—a gynecologic oncologist—is crucial for improving chances of survival. However, in 2015, as many as 10% of women in the U.S. lived in a county that was more than 50 miles from the closest gynecologic oncologist.
Patients’ and Caregivers’ Perspectives in Determining Discharge Readiness From Home Health
Melissa O'Connor, Helene Moriarty, Anne Schneider, Elizabeth B. Dowdell, Kathryn H. Bowles
Abstract [from journal]
There are no national, empirically derived clinical decision support tools to assist the interprofessional home health team in determining readiness for discharge from skilled home health. Eliciting patient and family caregiver perspectives around readiness for home health discharge is integral to developing tools that address their needs in this decision-making process. The purpose of this study was to describe the factors home health patients and their family caregivers perceive as critical when determining readiness for discharge
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