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- The Health Asset Model
- Learning to Be Great
- How to Demonstrate the Value of Your Organization
- Leading Change by Design
- Five Strategic Keys for Effective Community Collaboration
- Infographic – Five Questions to Ask Community Members about Community Health Improvement
- Infographic – The Five Most Important Questions You Can Ask About Your Organization
- Can readmissions be reduced after retrograde intrarenal surgery for renal stone?
- Dementia Severity Associated With Increased Risk of Potentially Preventable Readmissions During Home Health Care.
- Patients' and providers' perspectives on medication relatedness and potential preventability of hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge.
- Temporal Trends and Predictors of Thirty-Day Readmissions and Emergency Department Visits Following Total Knee Arthroplasty in Ontario Between 2003 and 2016.
- The biomarkers suPAR and blood eosinophils are associated with hospital readmissions and mortality in asthma - a retrospective cohort study.
- Impact of the Medicare hospital readmissions reduction program on vulnerable populations.
- Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics 2019 Healthcare Informatics: Catalyst for Value-Driven Care Transitions.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Increases Venous Thromboemboli, Readmissions, and Costs of Care After Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Matched-Control Analysis.
- Spillover Effects of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program on Radical Cystectomy Readmissions.
- National Study of Immediate and Delayed Readmissions After Colostomy Creation.
- Teaching Community Health Needs Assessment to First Year Medical Students: Integrating with Longitudinal Clinical Experience in Rural Communities.
- Community health needs assessment for a child health promotion program in Kyrgyzstan.
- Utilizing Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) in Nonprofit Hospitals to Guide Population-Centered Outcomes Research for Pediatric Patients: New Recommendations for CHNA Reporting.
- Nonprofit hospitals' approach to community health needs assessment.
- Community health needs assessment and action planning in seven Dominican bateyes.
- Identifying health conditions, priorities, and relevant multilevel health promotion intervention strategies in African American churches: A faith community health needs assessment.
- Community health needs assessment: a nurses' global health project in Vietnam.
- An Innovative Partnership to Improve Student Health: Response to a Community Health Needs Assessment.
- Trialing the Community-Based Collaborative Action Research Framework: Supporting Rural Health Through a Community Health Needs Assessment.
- Local Health Departments' Role in Nonprofit Hospitals' Community Health Needs Assessment.
- Impact of a Mobile App-Based Health Coaching and Behavior Change Program on Participant Engagement and Weight Status of Overweight and Obese Children: Retrospective Cohort Study.
- For Physical Laborers with Type 2 Diabetes, Telephonic Health Coaching is not Enough to Improve A1C.
- I.CAN: health coaching provides tailored nutrition and physical activity guidance to people diagnosed with cancer in a rural region in West Gippsland, Australia.
- Mobile Health Coaching on Nutrition and Lifestyle Behaviors for Subfertile Couples Using the Smarter Pregnancy Program: Model-Based Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.
- Is an oral health coaching program a way to sustain oral health for elderly people in nursing homes: A feasibility study.
- Empowering Diabetes Self-Management Through Technology and Nurse Health Coaching.
- Health coaching as a lifestyle medicine process in primary care.
- 'Walk this way': results from a pilot randomised controlled trial of a health coaching intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity in people with serious mental illness.
- Impact of rational emotive occupational health coaching on work-related stress management among staff of Nigeria police force.
- Health coaching to improve self-care of informal caregivers of adults with chronic heart failure - iCare4Me: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
- Payment to gamete donors: equality, gender equity, or solidarity?
- Addressing Health Care Disparities.
- Utilizing Social Determinants of Health to Elicit Perceived Control Beliefs About Physical Activity Among African Americans.
- Social determinants of health and survivorship in parotid cancer: An analysis of the National Cancer Database.
- Geographic Disparities in Liver Allocation and Distribution in the United States: Where Are We Now?
- Race and sex-based disparities associated with carotid endarterectomy in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study.
- Exacerbating disparities?: Cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination.
- Pan-cancer clinical and molecular analysis of racial disparities.
- Contributors to Racial Disparities in Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy in the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pain Treatment: Evidence From Oregon Emergency Medical Services Agencies.
- Using Lean Performance Improvement for Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation at an Academic Public Hospital.
- Features of U.S. Primary Care Physicians and Their Practices Associated with Advance Care Planning Conversations.
- A pharmacist-led pilot program to facilitate deprescribing in a primary care clinic.
- Association of the Implementation of the Patient-Centered Medical Home with Quality of Life in Patients with Multimorbidity.
- Primary Care Transformation.
- Integrating Personalized Care Planning into Primary Care: a Multiple-Case Study of Early Adopting Patient-Centered Medical Homes.
- Stigma among healthcare workers towards hepatitis B infection in Bangalore, India: a qualitative study.
- "A PCMH mind and a PCMH heart": Patient, faculty, and learner perspectives on collaborative care in an interprofessional team-based training programme.
- Elements of the healthy work environment associated with lower primary care nurse burnout.
- Reasons for obstetric referrals from community facilities to a tertiary obstetric facility: A study from Southern Karnataka.
- PRACTITIONER APPLICATION: Patient Engagement Functionalities in U.S. Hospitals: Is Early Adoption Associated With Financial Performance?
- Patient Engagement Functionalities in U.S. Hospitals: Is Early Adoption Associated With Financial Performance?
- Tele-rehabilitation and hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation are comparable in increasing patient activation and health literacy: A pilot study.
- The relationship between patient engagement and health-related quality of life in patients: a cross-sectional study in general outpatient clinic in Hong Kong SAR, China.
- Opportunity or Burden? A Behavioral Framework for Patient Engagement.
- Religiosity and Patient Activation Among Hospital Survivors of an Acute Coronary Syndrome.
- Increasing patient activation through diabetes self-management education: Outcomes of DESMOND in regional Western Australia.
- Patient Engagement in Medical Research Among Older Adults: Analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey.
- Evaluation of 3 approaches for increasing patient engagement in clinical research: Feedback from a community engagement advisory board.
- Patient Engagement.
- Population Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Supported Agriculture Among Low-Income US Adults: A Microsimulation Analysis.
- Mobilising cross-sector collaborations to improve population health in US rural communities: a qualitative study.
- Local health department adoption of electronic health records and health information exchanges and its impact on population health.
- Are You Making an Impact? Evaluating the Population Health Impact of Community Benefit Programs.
- Measuring Subcounty Differences in Population Health Using Hospital and Census-Derived Data Sets: The Missouri ZIP Health Rankings Project.
- Models of Population Health.
- Prevention as a Population Health Strategy.
- What Is Population Health?
- Clinical Ethics Needs Assessment: Adapting Clinical Ethics to a Population Health Program.
- How much evidence is there that political factors are related to population health outcomes? An internationally comparative systematic review.
