Publications by authors named "Danielle E Brown"
Background: Understanding health equity is critical for the development of patient-centered physicians, but few avenues exist for medical students to participate in experiential learning related to social determinants of health (SDOH).
Aim: To create and evaluate the PennHealthX SDOH Accelerator Program, which pairs students with health equity startups.
Setting: The program matches medical students at our institution with startups focused on SDOH for voluntary, part-time internships.
Objective: To determine the association between post-discharge mental healthcare and odds of readmission after emergency general surgery (EGS) hospitalization for patients with serious mental illness (SMI).
Background Data: A mental health visit (MHV) after medical hospitalization is associated with decreased readmissions for patients with SMI. The impact of a MHV after surgical hospitalization is unknown.
Importance: Many early-career surgeons struggle to develop their clinical practices, leading to high rates of burnout and attrition. Furthermore, women in surgery receive fewer, less complex, and less remunerative referrals compared with men. An enhanced understanding of the social and structural barriers to optimal growth and equity in clinical practice development is fundamental to guiding interventions to support academic surgeons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Mental illness is associated with worse outcomes after emergency general surgery. To understand how preoperative processes of care may influence disparate outcomes, we examined rates of surgical consultation, treatment, and operative approach between older adults with and without serious mental illness (SMI).
Study Design: We performed a nationwide, retrospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65.