Is use of ChatGPT cheating? Students of health professions perceptions.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore student perceptions of generative AI use and cheating in health professions education. The authors sought to understand how students believe generative AI is acceptable to use in coursework.

Materials And Methods: Five faculty members surveyed students across health professions graduate programs using an updated, validated survey instrument.

Association of hospital and market characteristics with 30-day readmission rates from 2009 to 2015.

Objectives: The US government implemented the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program on 1 October 2012 to reduce readmission rates through financial penalties to hospitals with excessive readmissions. We conducted a pooled cross-sectional analysis of US hospitals from 2009 to 2015 to determine the association of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program with 30-day readmissions.

Methods: We utilized multivariable linear regression with year and state fixed effects.

International and Interprofessional Collaboration: An Innovative Week of Learning Across Three Professions, Three Universities, and One Ocean.

As the COVID-19 pandemic prevented planned international travel opportunities for students and faculty, faculty at three universities from three professions created a four-day innovative, online learning experience. Each session included presentations from each country, small-group discussions, and evaluation. The topics appealed to students regardless of profession or nationality.

Examining Medical Office Owners and Clinicians Perceptions on Patient Safety Climate.

Objective: An essential element of effective medical practice management is having a shared set of beliefs among members regarding patient safety climate. Recognizing the need for improving patient safety, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality began a series of surveys to assess medical practice members' attitudes and beliefs on patient safety climate. The aim of the study was to examine owners and clinicians perceptions of their medical practice's patient safety climate.

Development and Validation of the Activities of Daily Living Short Form for Community-Dwelling Korean Stroke Survivors.

This study developed and validated a short form (SF) using activities of daily living (ADL) outcome measures from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) that can minimize survey administration burden for clinicians. This study utilized secondary data from the 2005 KNHANES with 422 community-dwelling stroke survivors. The KNHANES data were collected from April to June 2005 in South Korea.

How Differences Between Manager and Clinician Perceptions of Safety Culture Impact Hospital Processes of Care.

Objective: Evidenced-based processes of care improve patient outcomes, yet universal compliance is lacking, and perceptions of the quality of care are highly variable. The purpose of this study is to examine how differences in clinician and management perceptions on teamwork and communication relate to adherence to hospital processes of care.

Methods: Hospitals submitted identifiable data for the 2012 Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Hospital Compare.

Examination of the relationship between management and clinician perception of patient safety climate and patient satisfaction.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between managers and clinicians' agreement on deeming the patient safety climate as high or low and the patients' satisfaction with those organizations.

Data Sources/study Setting: We used two secondary data sets: the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (2012) and the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (2012).

Methodology/approach: We used ordinary least squares regressions to analyze the relationship between the extent of agreement between managers and clinicians' perceptions of safety climate in relationship to patient satisfaction.

Social Media Use Among Living Kidney Donors and Recipients: Survey on Current Practice and Potential.

Background: In the United States, there is a national shortage of organs donated for transplant. Among the solid organs, most often kidneys are donated by living donors, but the lack of information and complicated processes limit the number of individuals who serve as living kidney donors. Social media can be a tool for advocacy, educating the public about the need, process, and outcomes of live kidney donors, yet little is known about social media use by kidney transplant patients.

Do hospitals that do the right thing have more satisfied patients?

Background: Hospital incentive payments are increasingly becoming tied to quality. However, the U.S.

Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Overcoming Disparities in Live Kidney Donation in the US--Recommendations from a Consensus Conference.

Despite its superior outcomes relative to chronic dialysis and deceased donor kidney transplantation, live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is less likely to occur in minorities, older adults, and poor patients than in those who are white, younger, and have higher household income. In addition, there is considerable geographic variability in LDKT rates. Concomitantly, in recent years, the rate of living kidney donation (LKD) has stopped increasing and is declining, after decades of consistent growth.

Early treatment withdrawal from evidence-based psychotherapy for PTSD: telemedicine and in-person parameters.

Objective: To determine differences in reported barriers to treatment completion associated with telemedicine vs. in-person delivery of evidence-based treatment for PTSD in combat veterans.

Method: The present study was derived from two ongoing randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing in-person vs.

Development and testing of a disease-specific health literacy measure in kidney transplant patients.

Context: Health literacy affects a patient's ability to navigate through the system of care for late-stage kidney disease, including evaluation, waiting, and recovering from kidney transplant.

Objectives: To develop and provide a preliminary evaluation of a knowledge and decision-making capacity tool, which is a component of health literacy.

Design: Cross-sectional design with purposive sampling.

Association of electronic health records with cost savings in a national sample.

Objectives: To determine whether advanced electronic health record (EHR) use in hospitals is associated with lower cost of providing inpatient care.

Study Design: National Inpatient Sample (NIS) and the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Survey are combined in the restrospective, cross-sectional analysis. We study patients who are 18 years or older and discharged from a general acute care hospital.

Lower rates of EMR use in rural hospitals represent a previously unexplored child health disparity.

Objectives: Rural hospitals face significant barriers to adoption of advanced-stage electronic medical records (EMRs), which may translate to an unexplored disparity for children in rural hospitals. Our objective was to determine whether children hospitalized in rural settings are less likely to be cared for using advanced-stage EMRs.

Methods: We merged the 2009 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids Inpatient Dataset with the 2009 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society database.

Patient satisfaction scores and their relationship to hospital website quality measures.

Hospitals and health systems are using web-based and social media tools to market themselves to consumers with increasingly sophisticated strategies. These efforts are designed to shape the consumers' expectations, influence their purchase decisions, and build a positive reputation in the marketplace. Little is known about how these web-based marketing efforts are taking form and if they have any relationship to consumers' satisfaction with the services they receive.

Electronic medical record adoption in hospitals that care for children.

Objective: Hospitals that care for children face unique barriers in electronic medical records (EMR) use that may affect their ability to meaningfully use EMR. The purpose of this study was to investigate hospitals that care for children, both freestanding and adult hospitals with children's services, to determine progress toward advanced stages of EMR use.

Methods: The American Hospital Association survey described hospitals across the United States.

Optimizing the Economic Impact of rtPA Use in a Stroke Belt State: The Case of South Carolina.

Background: Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, and its incidence is especially high in South Carolina. Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) has been given to patients with acute ischemic stroke since 1996 and has shown overall improved outcomes relative to patients who are not treated with rtPA.

Objective: A 1998 study by Fagan and colleagues reported the economic impact of the use of rtPA.

Payer mix and EHR adoption in hospitals.

Payers are known to influence the adoption of health information technology (HIT) among hospitals. However, previous studies examining the relationship between payer mix and HIT have not focused specifically on electronic health record systems (EHRs). Using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample and the American Hospital Association Annual Survey, we examine how Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurance, and managed care caseloads are associated with EHR adoption in hospitals.

Telemedicine in an international context: definition, use, and future.

Purpose: Use of telemedicine is increasingly prevalent in order to provide better access to expert care, and we examine telemedicine use internationally.

Design/methodology: Using Donabedian's structure, process outcome framework, we conduct an analysis of published studies in the United States, Europe, and Asia to examine the uses, conditions treated, barriers, and future of telemedicine.

Findings: We identify several similarities and challenges to telemedicine use in each region.

Hospital electronic medical record use and cost of inpatient pediatric care.

Objective: Electronic medical record (EMR) systems are costly for hospitals to implement and maintain, and the effects of EMR on the cost of care for inpatient pediatrics remain unknown. Our objective was to determine whether delivering care with advanced-stage EMR was associated with a decreased cost per case in a national sample of hospitalized children.

Methods: The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids Inpatient Dataset 2009 identified pediatric discharges.

Hospital characteristics related to the intention to apply for meaningful use incentive payments.

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 provides incentives for hospitals to fully adopt and use electronic health records (EHRs). We used data from the 2009 American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey Information Technology Supplement and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 2008 Hospital Cost Reports to examine how various hospital characteristics are associated with the intention to pursue meaningful use incentives. Overall, 86 percent of hospitals indicated an intent to pursue HITECH incentives.

Access to Expert Stroke Care with Telemedicine: REACH MUSC.

Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability, and recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) can significantly reduce the long-term impact of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) if given within 3 h of symptom onset. South Carolina is located in the "stroke belt" and has a high rate of stroke and stroke mortality. Many small rural SC hospitals do not maintain the expertise needed to treat AIS patients with rtPA.

Market factors and electronic medical record adoption in medical practices.

Background: Previous studies identified individual or practice factors that influence practice-based physicians' electronic medical record (EMR) adoption. Less is known about the market factors that influence physicians' EMR adoption.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between environmental market characteristics and physicians' EMR adoption.

Is electronic health record use associated with patient satisfaction in hospitals?

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between hospital electronic health record (EHR) use and patient satisfaction.

Data Sources/study Setting: We used EHR and other data from the American Hospital Association and Area Resource File as well as all 10 measures of patient satisfaction from the Hospital Compare data from 2008.

Methodology/approach: We used a retrospective cross-sectional approach and control for potential selection bias with propensity score matching.