Time to End Physician Sexual Abuse of Patients: Calling the U.S. Medical Community to Action.

Despite the strict prohibition against all forms of sexual relations between physicians and their patients, some physicians cross this bright line and abuse their patients sexually. The true extent of sexual abuse of patients by physicians in the U.S.

Crossing the line: Sexual misconduct by nurses reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank.

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine nurse sexual-misconduct-related reports in the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and to compare them with reports for other types of offenses.

Design And Population: We analyzed NPDB's reports of adverse state nursing board licensure actions and malpractice payments for all nurses from January 1, 2003, to June 30, 2016.

Results: Overall, 882 nurses had sexual-misconduct-related reports.

Factor Structure of the Cultural Competence Items in the National Home and Hospice Care Survey.

Background: There is a need for validated measures of cultural competency practices in home health and hospice care (HHHC).

Objective: To establish the factor structure of the cultural competency items included in the agency-component of the 2007 public-use National Home and Hospice Care Survey file.

Data Source: We used weighted survey data from 1036 HHHC agencies.

Organizational characteristics associated with the provision of cultural competency training in home and hospice care agencies.

Background: Despite the increasing interest in community-based health care, little information exists on cultural competency training (CCT) and its predictors in this setting.

Purpose: We examined the associations between six organizational characteristics and the provision of CCT in home health care and hospice agencies.

Methodology: We used cross-sectional data from the agency component of the 2007 National Home and Hospice Care Survey.

Cross-Sectional Analysis of the 1039 U.S. Physicians Reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank for Sexual Misconduct, 2003-2013.

Background: Little information exists on U.S. physicians who have been disciplined with licensure or restriction-of-clinical-privileges actions or have had malpractice payments because of sexual misconduct.

Association between anticoagulant treatment duration and risk of venous thromboembolism recurrence and bleeding in clinical practice.

Introduction: This retrospective observational study examined whether anticoagulant treatment duration varies by risks of venous thromboembolism (VTE) recurrence and bleeding.

Materials And Methods: VTE patients naïve to anticoagulants were identified from the HealthCore Integrated Research Database between 06/01/2007 and 09/30/2011 and categorized into three groups: provoked, cancer-related, and unprovoked VTE. Treatment duration was from initiation to discontinuation of anticoagulation, based on a 60-day gap in prescription fill unless there was an international normalized ratio test every 42 days.

Characteristics affecting oral anticoagulant therapy choice among patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation: a retrospective claims analysis.

Background: Dabigatran is one of the three newer oral anticoagulants (OACs) recently approved in the United States for stroke prevention in non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) patients. The objective of this study was to identify patient, healthcare provider, and health plan factors associated with dabigatran versus warfarin use among NVAF patients.

Methods: Administrative claims data from patients with ≥ 2 NVAF medical claims in the HealthCore Integrated Research Database between 10/1/2009 and 10/31/2011 were analyzed.

Exacerbations among chronic bronchitis patients treated with maintenance medications from a US managed care population: an administrative claims data analysis.

Purpose: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations are the leading cause of hospital admission and death among chronic bronchitis (CB) patients. This study estimated annual COPD exacerbation rates, related costs, and their predictors among patients treated for CB.

Methods: This was a retrospective study using claims data from the HealthCore Integrated Research Database (HIRD(SM)).

Healthcare utilization and costs among chronic bronchitis patients treated with maintenance medications from a US managed care population.

Objectives: This study aimed to examine the real-world healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and direct costs among chronic bronchitis (CB) patients treated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) maintenance medications.

Methods: This retrospective analysis utilized administrative claims data from 14 US commercial managed care plans. Eligible patients were ≥40 years old, had ≥2 years of continuous enrollment, ≥1 CB (ICD-9-CM code 491.

Impact of blood pressure telemonitoring on hypertension outcomes: a literature review.

We searched five databases (PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, EMBASE, and ProQuest) from 1995 to September 2009 to collect evidence on the impact of blood pressure (BP) telemonitoring on BP control and other outcomes in telemonitoring studies targeting patients with hypertension as a primary diagnosis. Fifteen articles met our review criteria. We found that BP telemonitoring resulted in reduction of BP in all but two studies; systolic BP declined by 3.

Health-related research on older inmates: an integrative review.

The literature on older inmates' health is fragmented and insufficiently developed. In this integrative review, 21 research articles on health and older inmates were identified, critiqued, and synthesized to determine: the minimum age criterion most commonly used; health-related variables explored; health status; the health impact of incarceration; and aging-specific policies, programs, and facilities. Age 50 and older was used most often.