Legal Needs, Health, and Health Care Utilization Among Patients Participating in the Delaware Medical Legal Partnership.

Context: Unmet legal needs can exacerbate health disparities and contribute to a lack of adherence to treatment plans and medical recommendations for care. Medical legal partnerships (MLPs) are integrated health care and legal aid interventions offered by many health systems in the United States. Although much research has been published regarding the success of MLPs with specific patient groups, there is a gap in literature regarding the nature of MLPs in a more general, at-risk patient population.

A descriptive analysis of emergency medicine resident productivity over the course of training.

Background: The primary objective of emergency medicine (EM) residency training is to develop knowledgeable, procedurally competent, and highly efficient physicians. We aimed to determine current overall productivity statistics and if there is an average rate of productivity change for individual residents as they progress through their training.

Methods: This was a retrospective review of EM resident productivity performed at two American Council of Graduate Medical Education-accredited, community-academic residency programs from July 2012 to June 2018.

Low-cost insulin for socially at-risk patients: evidence for effectiveness.

Objectives: The price of analogue insulin has increased dramatically, making it unaffordable for many patients and insurance carriers. By contrast, human synthetic insulins are available at a fraction of the cost. The objective of this study was to examine whether patients with financial constraints were more likely to use low-cost human insulins compared with higher-cost analogue insulins and to determine whether outcomes differ between users of each type of insulin.

Engaging Community Health Workers and Social Care Staff as Social First Responders during the COVID-19 Crisis.

In this public health practice vignette, we describe an ongoing community and system intervention to identify and address social determinants of health and related needs experienced by ChristianaCare patients and the greater community during the Coronavirus pandemic. This intervention, being conducted by the ChristianaCare Office of Health Equity, in partnership with ChristianaCare's embedded research institute, the Value Institute, and the Community Outreach and Education division of the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center and Research Institute, engages more than 25 community health workers, health Guides, Latinx health promoters and other social care staff as social first responders during the COVID-19 crisis.

The Impact of an Electronic Medication Administration Record (eMAR) and Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) on Nurse Extender and Unit Clerk Staffing.

Objective: The aim of this study is to describe the impact of the introduction of health information technology (HIT) on the utilization and payroll costs of nurse extenders and unit clerks in medicine and surgery units in a large regional health system.

Background: Long-term policy goals of HIT implementation are reported to include system-level reductions in labor costs, achieved through improved efficiency.

Methods: Using a retrospective cohort model, we analyzed how hours worked per patient day and staffing costs per patient day varied with the implementation of HIT over time at 2 different hospitals within a health system.

Emergency codes: a study of hospital attitudes and practices.

Many hospitals use color codes to denote internal (i.e. patient respiratory distress), or external (i.