Penn LDI Team Wins American Society of Transplantation 2020 Innovation Award
Mary Naylor Transitional Care Model to Get $6 Million Evaluation
Philadelphia/Penn Collaboration Expands Use of Evidence-Based Mental Health Treatments
Hospital Financial Incentives to Improve Care After Opioid Overdose
Two patients are treated for opioid overdose at two different hospitals, just a few miles apart. The first hospital provides life-saving treatment to reverse the overdose and watches the patient for an hour, discharging them when deemed “medically stable.” The second hospital also provides life-saving treatment but then offers counseling, medication to prevent recurrent overdose and treat opioid withdrawal, and assistance navigating to outpatient treatment for the next day.
National Trends in Utilization and 1-Year Outcomes with Transplantation of HCV-Viremic Kidneys
Vishnu S. Potluri, David S. Goldberg, Sumit Mohan, Roy D. Bloom, Deirdre Sawinski, Peter L. Abt, Emily A. Blumberg, Chirag R. Parikh, James Sharpe, K. Rajender Reddy, Miklos Z. Molnar, Meghan Sise, Peter P. Reese
Abstract [from journal]
Background: Recent pilot trials have demonstrated the safety of transplanting HCV-viremic kidneys into HCV-seronegative recipients. However, it remains unclear if allograft function is impacted by donor HCV-viremia or recipient HCV-serostatus.
Methods: We used national United States registry data to examine trends in HCV-viremic kidney use between 4/1/2015 and 3/31/2019. We applied advanced matching methods to compare eGFR for similar kidneys transplanted into highly similar recipients of kidney transplants.
...CHERISH Workshop Addresses an 'Unfortunate Reality' of the Addiction Treatment Industry
What's Missing in Most Health Care-Related Implementation Science Projects
An Innovative-Thinking Retreat for Mental Health Care Innovation Researchers
HSR 'State of the Union' Report Highlights Funding and National Coordination Issues
Engaging Implementation Science, Behavioral Economics and Mental Health Challenges With Great Alacrity
Influence of Community-Level Cultural Beliefs about Autism on Families' and Professionals' Care for Children
Christina D. Kang-Yi, Roy Richard Grinker, Rinad Beidas, Aneeza Agha, ...
ABSTRACT [FROM JOURNAL]
This qualitative study aimed to understand how community-level cultural beliefs affect families’ and professionals’ care for children with autism and developmental delays in immigrant communities, as a first step towards promoting early identification and access to early intervention services. The study was part of the larger New York City (NYC) Korean Community Autism Project, which was designed to identify strategies to increase awareness of autism and reduce delays in treatment seeking within the NYC Korean-American community. Our study elicited early...
Mitesh Patel Wins AcademyHealth Alice S. Hersh Award
Innovation Tournament Targets Mental Health Clinicians Across Philadelphia
Penn Team Wins $6.4 Million NIMH Implementation Science Grant
Post-operative mortality, missed care and nurse staffing in nine countries: A cross-sectional study
Jane E. Ball, Luk Bruyneel, Linda H. Aiken, Walter Sermeus, Douglas M. Sloane, Anne Marie Rafferty, Rikard Lindqvist, Carol Tishelman, Peter Griffiths, RN4CAST Consortium
In International Journal of Nursing Studies, Jane Ball and colleagues, including Linda Aiken, examine if missed nursing care explains the observed association between nurse staffing levels and mortality. Previous research has shown that higher postoperative mortality rates are associated with lower nurse staffing levels. When nurse staffing levels are lower, there is a higher incidence of necessary but missed nursing care. The authors collected data from 422,730 patients from 300 general acute hospitals, and administered surveys to 26,516 registered nurses to understand staffing...