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- 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
- Factors associated with 30-day readmissions following medical hospitalizations among Medicaid beneficiaries with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder.
- Validation of the Partners at Care Transitions Measure (PACT-M): assessing the quality and safety of care transitions for older people in the UK.
- Standardized Discharge Antibiotics May Reduce Readmissions in Pediatric Perforated Appendicitis.
- Financial Performance of Hospitals in the Appalachian Region Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program and Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program.
- Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for Classifying Adverse-Event Related 30-Day Hospital Readmissions: Potential Implications for Patient Safety.
- Root causes of extended length of stay and unplanned readmissions after orthopedic surgery and hand surgery: a retrospective observational cohort study.
- Extremes of body mass index have significant impact on complications, readmissions, and utilization of post-acute services after primary total hip arthroplasty.
- Parkinson Disease Associated Differences in Elective Orthopedic Surgery Outcomes: A National Readmissions Database Analysis.
- Improving surgical antibiotic prophylaxis adherence and reducing hospital readmissions: a bundle of interventions including health information technologies.
- Trends, predictors, and outcomes associated with 30-day hospital readmissions after percutaneous coronary intervention in a high-volume center predominantly using radial vascular access.
- 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.
- Online Health Coaching for Spinal Cord Injury: Results from a Mixed Methods Feasibility Evaluation.
- The effect of transition care interventions incorporating health coaching strategies for stroke survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Telephone health coaching with exercise monitoring using wearable activity trackers (TeGeCoach) for improving walking impairment in peripheral artery disease: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation.
- Integrating Health Coaching With a Medical Fitness Program to Treat Chronic Health Conditions.
- Training in health coaching skills for health professionals who work with people with progressive neurological conditions: A realist evaluation.
- Effects of health coaching on behavioral modification among adults with cardiovascular risk factors: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
- The effect of community pharmacist-led health coaching on clinical outcomes.
- A Mobile Health Coaching Intervention for Controlling Hypertension: Single-Arm Pilot Pre-Post Study.
- Outcomes in a digital weight management intervention with one-on-one health coaching.
- Efficacy of health coaching and a Web-based program on physical activity, weight, and distress management among cancer survivors: a multi-centered randomised controlled trial.
- Social determinants of mammography screening among women aged 50 to 59, Peru 2015.
- COVID-19: we must not forget about Indigenous health and equity.
- Racial disparities and outcomes of left ventricular assist device implantation as a bridge to heart transplantation.
- Providing urban birds nutritious food to feed chicks reduces urban versus rural breeding success disparities.
- Equity implications of rice fortification: a modelling study from Nepal.
- Health Disparities in Transgender and Gender Expansive Adolescents: A Topical Review From a Minority Stress Framework.
- Health Disparities and Constipation Management among Pediatric Patients in the Emergency Department.
- Disparities in the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on publishing: Evidence from submissions to hormones and behavior.
- Hispanic/Latino heritage group disparities in sleep and the sleep-cardiovascular health relationship by housing tenure status in the United States.
- Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Retinoblastoma Enucleation: A Population-Based Study, SEER 18 2000-2014.
- Do nurse practitioner-led medical homes differ from physician-led medical homes?
- Association of healthy child-rearing practices and children's receipt of care in patient-centered medical homes.
- Evaluation of a Pharmacist-Led Intervention to Improve Statin Use in Persons with Diabetes.
- Identifying disparities in patient-centered care experiences between non-Latino white and black men: results from the 2008-2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
- Shifting care from hospital to community, a strategy to integrate care in Singapore: process evaluation of implementation fidelity.
- Enhancing Patient Activation and Self-Management Activities in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes using the U.S. Department of Defense Mobile Health Care Environment: A Feasibility Study.
- Association Between Difficulty with VA Patient-Centered Medical Home Model Components and Provider Emotional Exhaustion and Intent to Remain in Practice.
- A patient-centered medical home model for comprehensive sickle cell care in infants and young children.
- Patient Centred Medical Home (PCMH) transitions in western Sydney, Australia: a qualitative study.
- Cohort Profile: Effectiveness of a 12-Month Patient-Centred Medical Home Model Versus Standard Care for Chronic Disease Management among Primary Care Patients in Sydney, Australia.
- Preoperative patient activation is predictive of improvements in patient-reported outcomes following minimally invasive lumbar decompression.
- Patient Engagement, Nursing Theory, and Policy Possibilities.
- Adult Obesity and Health-Related Quality of Life, Patient Activation, Work Productivity, and Weight Loss Behaviors in the United States.
- Management of Fracture Risk in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Building a UK Consensus Through Healthcare Professional and Patient Engagement.
- Preoperative Exercise Participation Reflects Patient Engagement and Predicts Earlier Patient Discharge and Less Gait Aid Dependence After Total Joint Arthroplasty.
- Nurses' interventions to promote cancer patient engagement and related outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.
- User-Centered Design for Promoting Patient Engagement in Chronic Diseases Management: The Development of CONCERTO.
- The Patient Activation through Community Empowerment/Engagement for Diabetes Management (PACE-D) protocol: a non-randomised controlled trial of personalised care and support planning for persons living with diabetes.
- Knowledge Is Power: Patient Education as a Tool for Patient Activation.
- A novel digital health intervention to improve patient engagement to stimulants in adult ADHD in the primary care setting: Preliminary findings from an open label study.
- Population Health and Trauma-Informed Practice: Implications for Programs, Systems, and Policies.
- Neighborhood immigrant density and population health among native-born Americans.
- A Public Health Framework to Improve Population Health Through Health Care and Community Clinical Linkages: The ASTHO/CDC Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Learning Collaborative.
- The Standardization of Diagnostic Criteria for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): Implications for Research, Clinical Practice and Population Health.
- Population Health Management Approach: Integration of Community-Based Pharmacists into Integrated Care Systems: Reflections from the U.S., Achievements in Scotland and Discussions in Germany.
- Traditional and Nontraditional Collaborations to Improve Population Health Using Geospatial Information SystemMaps: Analysis of the Opioid Crisis.
- Exposure to ambient air pollution and the incidence of lung cancer and breast cancer in the Ontario Population Health and Environment Cohort.
- Volatility and Persistence of Value-Based Purchasing Adjustments: A Challenge to Integrating Population Health and Community Benefit Into Business Operations.
- The Population Health OutcomEs aNd Information EXchange (PHOENIX) Program - A Transformative Approach to Reduce the Burden of Chronic Disease.
- Association between hospital community services and county population health in the USA.
