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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
- Impact of Early Hospital Readmissions After Kidney Transplantation on Graft Function.
- Reducing 30-Day Readmissions for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
- Unplanned 30-Day Hospital Readmissions of Symptomatic Carotid and Vertebral Artery Dissection.
- Using Post-Discharge Telephone Follow-Up by Nephrology Nurses to Reduce 30-Day Readmissions and Post-Discharge Complications for Adult Patients on Hemodialysis.
- Impact of Population Differences: Post-Kidney Transplant Readmissions.
- Elderly at risk in care transitions When discharge summaries are poorly transferred and used -a descriptive study.
- Evaluation of 30 Day Readmissions After Index Ventricular Assist Device Implantation in the United States.
- Evaluation of a Hospital: Community Partnership to Reduce 30-Day Readmissions.
- Predictors and etiologies of 30-day readmissions in patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome.
- Readmissions After Outpatient Transforaminal Decompression for Lumbar Foraminal and Lateral Recess Stenosis.
- 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.
- Community Health Needs Assessment as a Teaching Tool in a Family Medicine Residency.
- Community Health Needs Assessment: Potential for Population Health Improvement.
- Health Coaching to Enhance Psychological Well-being Among Veterans with Suicidal Ideation: a Pilot Study.
- Erickson health coaching: An innovative approach for weight management in obese patients with obstructive sleep apnoea?
- Clinical Effectiveness of Lifestyle Health Coaching: Case Study of an Evidence-Based Program.
- Primary Care-Based Health Coaching for the Management of Prediabetes.
- Design of a randomized controlled trial comparing a mobile phone-based hypertension health coaching application to home blood pressure monitoring alone: The Smart Hypertension Control Study.
- Randomized Controlled Trial of Health Coaching for Vulnerable Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
- Cost-Effectiveness of Health Coaching and Financial Incentives to Promote Physical Activity after Total Knee Replacement.
- Perceptions of Health Coaching for Behavior Change Among Medicaid and Commercially Insured Adults.
- Health Coaching Strategy to Improve Glycemic Control in African- American Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: An Integrative Review.
- Is telephone health coaching a useful population health strategy for supporting older people with multimorbidity? An evaluation of reach, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness using a ‘trial within a cohort’.
- Community Health Worker Programs to Improve Healthcare Access and Equity: Are They Only Relevant to Low- and Middle-Income Countries?
- Understanding the Promotion of Health Equity at the Local Level Requires Far More than Quantitative Analyses of Yes-No Survey Data Comment on “Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups”.
- Challenging Institutional Norms to Improve Local-Level Policy for Health and Health Equity Comment on “Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups”.
- Trends in social determinants of child health and perinatal outcomes in European countries 2005-2015 by level of austerity imposed by governments: a repeat cross-sectional analysis of routinely available data.
- Development and validation of a search filter to identify equity-focused studies: reducing the number needed to screen.
- Racial disparities in Medicaid home and community-based service utilization and expenditures among persons with multiple sclerosis.
- Leveraging primary care to address social determinants.
- Disparities in follow-up care for ballistic and non-ballistic long bone lower extremity fractures.
- New Medicare Diabetes Prevention Coverage May Limit Beneficiary Access and Widen Health Disparities.
- Addressing Gaps in HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Care to Reduce Racial Disparities in HIV Incidence in the United States.
- Correlates of Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition in School-Based Health Centers.
- Patient-centered medical home care access among adults with chronic conditions: National Estimates from the medical expenditure panel survey.
- Rationale and development of a randomized pragmatic trial to improve diabetes outcomes in patient-centered medical homes serving rural patients.
- Health literacy, preventive health screening, and medication adherence behaviors of older African Americans at a PCMH.
- Economic evaluation of patient-centered care among long-term cancer survivors.
- Pharmacist-Delivered Comprehensive Medication Management Within Family Medicine Practices An Evaluation of the SCRIPT Project.
- Disparities in Self-reported Access to Patient-centered Medical Home Care for Children With Special Health Care Needs.
- How Is Family Medicine Engaging Patients at the Practice-Level?: A National Sample of Family Physicians.
- The Politics of Primary Care Expansion: Lessons From Cancer Survivorship and Substance Abuse.
- Patient acceptability of receiving short message services from an HIV patient-centered medical home.
- Metrics and Evaluation Tools for Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organization- and System-Level Decision-Making: A Systematic Review.
- Patient Activation Changes as a Potential Signal for Changes in Health Care Costs: Cohort Study of US High-Cost Patients.
- Patient activation for self-management is associated with health status in patients with atrial fibrillation.
- Engaging the older cancer patient; Patient Activation through Counseling, Exercise and Mobilization – Pancreatic, Biliary tract and Lung cancer (PACE-Mobil-PBL) – study protocol of a randomized controlled trial.
- The power of patient engagement: Implications for clinical practice and medical education.
- Patient Engagement at a Tipping Point-The Need for Cultural Change Across Patient, Sponsor, and Regulator Stakeholders: Insights From the DIA Conference, “Patient Engagement in Benefit Risk Assessment Throughout the Life Cycle of Medical Products”.
- Development and validation of an instrument to measure patient engagement in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
- Patient Engagement by Pharma-Why and How? A Framework for Compliant Patient Engagement.
- Strategies to Improve Patient Engagement in Young Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Review.
- Models and frameworks of patient engagement in health services research: a scoping review protocol.
- Reducing emergency hospital admissions: a population health complex intervention of an enhanced model of primary care and compassionate communities.
- ValuedCare program: a population health model for the delivery of evidence-based care across care continuum for hip fracture patients in Eastern Singapore.
- Eye Health Needs to Be a Population Health Priority.
- Quality improvement as a population health promotion opportunity to reorient the healthcare system.
- Cohort Profile: The ONtario Population Health and Environment Cohort (ONPHEC).
- Results from the third Scottish National Prevalence Survey: is a population health approach now needed to prevent healthcare-associated infections?
- How to work with local communities to improve population health: big data and small data.
- A Framework for Resident Participation in Population Health.
- Religious freedom restoration acts and sexual minority population health in the United States.
- The Aboriginal Population Health Training Initiative: a NSW Health program established to strengthen the Aboriginal public health workforce.
