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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
- Sickle cell disease and readmissions rates after lower extremity arthroplasty: a multistate analysis 2007-2014.
- Re: Association of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program with Mortality among Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, and Pneumonia.
- A novel patient-centered protocol to reduce hospital readmissions for dehydration after ileostomy.
- Socioeconomic, Racial, and Ethnic Disparities in Postpartum Readmissions in Patients with Preeclampsia: a Multi-state Analysis, 2007-2014.
- Editorial Commentary: Impact of in-hospital cardiac rehabilitation on mortality and readmissions in heart failure: A population study in Lombardy, Italy, from 2005 to 2012.
- Preoperative opioid use and postoperative pain associated with surgical readmissions.
- Pericardial closure with extracellular matrix scaffold following cardiac surgery associated with a reduction of postoperative complications and 30-day hospital readmissions.
- Thirty-Day Postdischarge Mortality Among Black and White Patients 65 Years and Older in the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.
- Incidence of hip fracture and 30-day hospital readmissions in a region of central Italy from 2006 to 2015.
- Readmissions to the ICU Among Children With Tracheostomies Placed After Cardiac Arrest.
- 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.
- Community Health Needs Assessment as a Teaching Tool in a Family Medicine Residency.
- Health coaching for parents of children with developmental disabilities: a systematic review.
- A technology-assisted health coaching intervention vs. enhanced usual care for Primary Care-Based Obesity Treatment: a randomized controlled trial.
- Health Coaching Has Differential Effects on Veterans with Limited Health Literacy and Numeracy: a Secondary Analysis of ACTIVATE.
- Piloting a Telephone Based Health Coaching Program for Pregnant Women: A Mixed Methods Study.
- Integrating Mobile-health, health coaching, and physical activity to reduce the burden of chronic low back pain trial (IMPACT): a pilot randomised controlled trial.
- Health Coaching for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus to Decrease 30-Day Hospital Readmissions.
- An Evaluation of Lifestyle Health Coaching Programs Using Trained Health Coaches and Evidence-Based Curricula at 6 Months Over 6 Years.
- The Diabetes Health Coaching Randomized Controlled Trial: Rationale, Design and Baseline Characteristics of Adults Living With Type 2 Diabetes.
- The Push and Pull of Self-Managing Mild COPD: An Evaluation of Participant Experiences of a Nurse-Led Telephone Health Coaching Intervention.
- Examining Changes in Healthy Days After Health Coaching.
- European-wide monitoring of sexual and gender minority health: a necessary and feasible task for advancing health equity.
- How Should Nonprofit Hospitals’ Community Benefit Be More Responsive to Health Disparities?
- Hospitals’ Obligations to Address Social Determinants of Health.
- How Should Health Care Professionals Address Social Determinants of Refugee Health?
- Social determinants of pulmonary tuberculosis in Argentina.
- Quality of life of people with HIV/AIDS – the influence of social determinants and disease-related factors.
- Disparities In The Use Of Drug-eluting Stents For Diabetic Patients With ST-elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction Assisted In the Public versus Private Network – VICTIM Register.
- Would the elimination of obesity and smoking reduce U.S. racial/ethnic/nativity disparities in total and healthy life expectancy?
- Identifying disparities in germline and somatic testing for ovarian cancer.
- Disparities in HPV Screening and Prevention in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Regions of Michigan.
- Provider and Staff Morale, Job Satisfaction, and Burnout over a 4-Year Medical Home Intervention.
- Canadian HIV Care Settings as Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs).
- Money, Managed Care, and Medicaid Initiatives Matter: Patient-centered Medical Home Capacity in School-based Health Centers.
- How middle managers facilitate interdisciplinary primary care team functioning.
- Personalized Inflammatory Bowel Disease Care Reduced Hospitalizations.
- Explaining primary care physicians’ decision to quit patient-centered medical homes: Evidence from Quebec, Canada.
- What makes team communication effective: a qualitative analysis of interprofessional primary care team members’ perspectives.
- Quality of Care and Preventive Screening Use in the CareFirst Patient-Centered Medical Home Program.
- The medical home functions of primary care practices that care for adults with psychological distress: a cross-sectional study.
- Core Functions and Forms of Complex Health Interventions: a Patient-Centered Medical Home Illustration.
- Development and validation of the healthcare providers patient-activation scale.
- Patient Engagement and Attitudes Toward Using the Electronic Medical Record for Medical Research: The 2015 Greater Plains Collaborative Health and Medical Research Family Survey.
- NAPCRG’S PATIENT ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM DEBUTS CONSULTATION SERVICE.
- Patient Engagement In Research: Early Findings From The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
- Must We Bust the Trust?: Understanding How the Clinician-Patient Relationship Influences Patient Engagement in Safety.
- Patient engagement in first cycle comprehensive chemotherapy consultation pharmacist services and impact on patient activation.
- Patient engagement: Changing pediatric practice to improve patient care.
- Advancing the Care of Severe Asthma: Differential Diagnosis, Multidisciplinary Management, and Patient Engagement.
- How health literacy and patient activation play their own unique role in self-management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)?
- Exploring Ethical Issues Related to Patient Engagement in Healthcare: Patient, Clinician and Researcher’s Perspectives.
- Applying quality improvement strategies within Canadian population health promotion.
- Green pastures: Do US real estate prices respond to population health?
- Integrating Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health into Population Health Analytics: A Conceptual Framework and Suggested Road Map.
- Minnesota Extends Oral Healthcare Delivery to Impact Population Health.
- Measuring sport experiences in children and youth to better understand the impact of sport on health and positive youth development: designing a brief measure for population health surveys.
- Development of an electronic health record-based chronic kidney disease registry to promote population health management.
- Excellence in Population Health: A Successful Community-Based Care Transitions Program Model.
- Going Beyond Clinical Care to Reduce Health Care Spending: Findings From the J-CHiP Community-based Population Health Management Program Evaluation.
- Integrating clinical medicine and population health: where to from here?
- Integrating Population Health Concepts Into Community Health Simulation Experiences.
