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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
- Association of Electroconvulsive Therapy with Psychiatric readmissions in Singapore Tertiary Mood Disorder Unit.
- Predictors of hospital readmissions in internal medicine patients: Application of Andersen’s Model.
- Incidence and Considerations of 90 day Readmissions following Posterior Lumbar Fusion.
- Putting patients at the center of kidney care transitions: prepare now, a cluster randomized controlled trial.
- Defining Types and Determining Risk Factors for Vascular Surgery Readmissions.
- Factors associated with unplanned readmissions within 1 day of acute care discharge: a retrospective cohort study.
- Validation of Risk Score in Predicting Early Readmissions in Decompensated Cirrhotic patients: A Model Based on the Administrative Database.
- Readmissions of adults within three age groups following hospitalization for pneumonia: Analysis from the Nationwide Readmissions Database.
- Health Care Transition Experiences of Males with Childhood-onset Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy: Findings from the Muscular Dystrophy Surveillance Tracking and Research Network (MD STARnet) Health Care Transitions and Other Life Experiences Survey.
- Tele-transitions of care. A 12-month, parallel-group, superiority randomized controlled trial protocol, evaluating the use of telehealth versus standard transitions of care in the prevention of avoidable hospital readmissions.
- 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.
- 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’.
- Telemedicine-Based Health Coaching Is Effective for Inducing Weight Loss and Improving Metabolic Markers.
- Potential for HPV vaccination and primary HPV screening to reduce cervical cancer disparities: Example from New Zealand.
- Future projection of the physician workforce and its geographical equity in Japan: a cohort-component model.
- The Mission of Safety Net Hospitals: Charity or Equity?
- Socioeconomic variables explain rural disparities in US mortality rates: Implications for rural health research and policy.
- Validation of a new continuous geographic isolation scale: A tool for rural health disparities research.
- Disparities in peptic ulcer disease: A nationwide study.
- Early-life origins of disparities in chronic diseases among Indigenous youth: pathways to recovering health disparities from intergenerational trauma.
- Income inequality, structural racism, and Canada’s low performance in health equity.
- Social Determinants of Mental Health: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go.
- Disparities between English and Spanish in readability of online endodontic information for laypeople.
- 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.
- Insights into the enzymatic formation, chemical features, and biological role of the flavin-N5-oxide.
- Interprofessional training and team function in patient-centred medical home: Findings from a mixed method study of interdisciplinary provider perspectives.
- Evidence that patient-centered medical homes are effective in reducing emergency department admissions for patients with depression.
- 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.
- Explaining Variability in Therapist Adherence and Patient Depressive Symptom Improvement: The Role of Therapist Interpersonal Skills and Patient Engagement.
- Patient Engagement and Cost Savings Achieved by Automated Telemonitoring Systems Designed to Prevent and Identify Surgical Site Infections After Joint Replacement.
- Translation and Validation of the Patient Activation Measure in Portuguese People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
- Value Assessment Frameworks in the United States: A Call for Patient Engagement.
- Professional and Patient Engagement, Visual Abstracts, and Applications to Otolaryngology-Social Media’s Siren Call.
- Funding Academic and Clinical Nurse Strategies Through Joint Fund-raising Initiatives and Grateful Patient Engagement.
- Corrigendum to Use of Game Theory to model patient engagement after surgery: a qualitative analysis [Journal of Surgical Research 221 (2018) 69-76].
- The Aboriginal Population Health Training Initiative: a NSW Health program established to strengthen the Aboriginal public health workforce.
- Clinical Population Medicine: Integrating Clinical Medicine and Population Health in Practice.
- The Cleveland Clinic Pharmacy Population Health Management Summit.
- Capsule Commentary on Mehta et al. Race/Ethnicity and Adoption of a Population Health Management Approach to Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Community-Based Healthcare System.
- Implementation of a Comprehensive Population Health Management Model.
- [HADASSAH MEDICAL ORGANIZATION – A PIONEER IN POPULATION HEALTH].
- The application of implementation science theories for population health: A critical interpretive synthesis.
- MD Anderson's Population Health Approaches to Cancer Prevention.
- Collective Well-Being to Improve Population Health Outcomes: An Actionable Conceptual Model and Review of the Literature.
- Costs and outcomes of improving population health through better social housing: a cohort study and economic analysis.
