Community Health Solutions publishes ElevatingHealth.net as a free source of ideas for improving health and health care in your community. Our purpose is not to cover every idea under the sun, but to show a cross-section of emerging approaches for improving health and health care at the community level. We look forward to collaborating with you to make ElevatingHealth.net your first stop for finding and sharing ideas for community health improvement.
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- 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
- A simple index predicting 30-day readmissions in acutely hospitalized patients.
- Impact of intracoronary imaging on in-hospital mortality and 30-day readmission rates following percutaneous coronary intervention: A nationwide readmissions database analysis.
- Interventions to standardise hospital care at presentation, admission or discharge or to reduce unnecessary admissions or readmissions for patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a scoping review.
- A Multimodal Sepsis Quality-Improvement Initiative Including 24/7 Screening and a Dedicated Sepsis Response Team-Reduced Readmissions and Mortality.
- Equipping for Patient Transfers in Pediatric to Adult Headache Care Transitions.
- Patterns of unplanned readmissions after HF hospitalization: novel longitudinal perspectives from Australia and New Zealand.
- Care transitions in the first 6 months following traumatic brain injury: Lessons from the CENTER-TBI study.
- Predicting Unplanned Readmissions Following a Hip or Knee Arthroplasty: Retrospective Observational Study.
- Use of a Computerized Algorithm to Evaluate the Proportion and Causes of Potentially Preventable Readmissions Among Patients Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities.
- Corticosteroid Dosing and Glucose Levels in COPD Patients Are Not Associated with Increased Readmissions.
- Local Health Department and Hospital Collaboration Around Community Health Needs Assessment to Improve Health Outcomes.
- Medical School Hotline: An Online, Quantitative Community Health Needs Assessment of Hale'iwa and Waialua, O'ahu, Hawai'i.
- 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.
- Combining mHealth and health-coaching for improving self-management in chronic care. A scoping review.
- Client Perspectives on Health Coaching: Insight for Improved Program Design.
- The effects of health coaching on frequent attenders' adherence to health regimens and lifestyle factors: a quasi-experimental study.
- Low theoretical fidelity hinders the research on health coaching for opioid reduction: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
- Health Coaching as an Intervention for Picky Eaters.
- Surgical prehabilitation using mobile health coaching in patients with obesity: A pilot study.
- Feasibility and acceptability of a remotely-delivered behavioural health coaching intervention to limit gestational weight gain.
- Health-Related Quality of Life Improvements in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Derived from a Digital Therapeutic Plus Tele-Health Coaching Intervention: Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.
- Medical assistant health coaching ("MAC") for type 2 diabetes in diverse primary care settings: A pragmatic, cluster-randomized controlled trial protocol.
- User-Centered Development and Patient Acceptability Testing of a Health-Coaching Intervention to Enhance Cancer Survivorship Follow-up in Primary Care.
- Number of Social Determinants of Health and Fatal and Nonfatal Incident Coronary Heart Disease in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study.
- Gender disparities in depressive and anxiety symptoms among internal migrant workers in Shenzhen: a cross-sectional study.
- Policy and Health: Leveraging a Social Determinants of Health Framework to Alleviate the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients With Cancer.
- Changes in Racial Disparities in Mortality After Cancer Surgery in the US, 2007-2016.
- Trends in Gender Disparities in Authorship of Arthroplasty Research.
- Social determinants of health and heart failure hospitalizations in Brazil.
- Impact of a rural drowning reduction programme in Bangladesh on gender equity, norms and behaviour: a mixed-method analysis.
- Disparities in availability of services and prediction of the readiness of primary healthcare to manage diabetes in Tanzania.
- Spatial modeling of leprosy in the state of Bahia and its social determinants: a study of health inequities.
- Social determinants of male partner attendance in women's prevention-of mother-to-child transmission program in Malawi.
- The patient-centered medical home as an intervention strategy for diabetes mellitus: A systematic review of the literature.
- Effect of Integrated Gastroenterology Specialists in a Primary Care Setting: a Retrospective Cohort Study.
- Linkage to specialty care in the hepatitis C care cascade.
- Community-Based Participatory Research in Action: The Patient-Centered Medical Home and Neighborhood.
- A survey of anaesthesia practices at all hospitals performing caesarean sections in Sierra Leone.
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Activities Associated With Low Medicare Spending and Utilization.
- Can You Hear Me Now? Refining the PCMH Model and an Overlooked Disability Affecting Seniors.
- Meaningful Use And Medical Home Functionality In Primary Care Practice.
- The impact of patient-centered medical home certification on quality of care for patients with diabetes.
- Association of Patient-Centered Medical Home designation and quality indicators within HRSA-funded community health center delivery sites.
- Telehealth sustains patient engagement in OUD treatment during COVID-19.
- Encouraging Patient Engagement Behaviors from the Perspective of Functional Quality.
- Patient activation and Type 2 diabetes mellitus self-management: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- [Patient engagement, raising awareness and improving care.]
- The Association between Patient Activation and Outcomes among Severely Mentally Ill Patients.
- Correction to: Patient Engagement Partnerships in Clinical Trials: Development of Patient Partner and Investigator Decision Aids.
- An Electronically Delivered, Patient-Activation Tool for Intensification of Medications for Chronic Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: The EPIC-HF Trial.
- Results from a prospective study of individuals' symptoms and patient activation after hepatitis C treatment.
- Patient engagement in health technology assessment (HTA) and the regulatory process: what about rheumatology?
- Relationship between patient activation measurement and self-rated health in patients with chronic diseases.
- Benefits of Community-Based Approaches in Assessing and Addressing Sleep Health and Sleep-Related Cardiovascular Disease Risk: a Precision and Personalized Population Health Approach.
- Well-Being in the Nation: A Living Library of Measures to Drive Multi-Sector Population Health Improvement and Address Social Determinants.
- An Asthma Population Health Improvement Initiative for Children With Frequent Hospitalizations.
- Prevalence of stroke in Pakistan: Findings from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa integrated population health survey (KP-IPHS) 2016-17.
- Gentrification, Neighborhood Change, and Population Health: a Systematic Review.
- Inpatient Population Health-Defining the Denominator.
- Academic practice partnerships: A review of a statewide population health nursing leadership initiative.
- Putting the puzzle pieces together: Adapting a population health infrastructure to Medicaid risk.
- Effects of a Population Health Community-Based Palliative Care Program on Cost and Utilization.
- Leveraging Rural Strengths to Overcome Population Health Challenges.
