Publications by authors named "Allison Kannam"
Background: People with disability (PWD) face challenges accessing healthcare. Websites are a public-facing resource that can help PWD determine if a hospital can accommodate their needs, yet few studies have described whether hospital websites contain adequate accommodation information.
Objective: To characterize the extent to which information about disability accommodations is available on US hospital websites.
Objective: To examine perceived benefits and barriers of summer meal participation among lower-income families who participate in school lunch programs during the year.
Design: Semistructured phone interviews were conducted with parents of elementary-aged children, including both participants and nonparticipants in summer meals.
Setting: Queens, Bronx, and Brooklyn, NY.
Background And Objectives: Despite guidelines recommending shared decision making, nephrologists vary significantly in their approaches to discussing conservative management for kidney replacement therapy with older patients. Many older patients do not perceive dialysis initiation as a choice or receive sufficient information about conservative management for reasons incompletely understood. We examined how nephrologists' perceptions of key outcomes and successful versus failed treatment discussions shape their approach and characterized different models of decision making, patient engagement, and conservative management discussion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Although dialysis may not provide a large survival benefit for older patients with kidney failure, few are informed about conservative management. Barriers and facilitators to discussions about conservative management and nephrologists' decisions to present the option of conservative management may vary within the nephrology provider community.
Study Design: Interview study of nephrologists.