Standardizing Multidisciplinary Discharge Planning Rounds to Improve Patient Perceptions of Care Transitions.

Patients' satisfaction with care transitions is low, especially when it comes to understanding their care when discharged home from the hospital. Therefore, a quality improvement effort was initiated with the aim of improving patients' satisfaction with care transitions. Specific goals of the project were to improve communication between healthcare providers and patients, increase patient satisfaction, and enhance patient education by standardizing multidisciplinary discharge planning rounds.

Effects of a service-learning experience on health-related students' attitudes toward the homeless.

Objectives: A community engagement service-learning experience was planned to provide health services for the homeless during a local 1-day event. The objectives were to (a) determine the feasibility of a service-learning experience, and to (b) examine the effects on students' attitudes toward persons experiencing homelessness.

Methods: A quasi-experimental, institutional review board approved study, including health-related students enrolled in a local university or community college, was planned.

School-Based Interprofessional Asthma Self-Management Education Program for Middle School Students: A Feasibility Trial.

Background: Asthma is the most common chronic disease among school-aged children under 18 years of age and is a major cause of morbidity, loss of school days, and increased hospitalizations. Asthma disproportionately affects low-income, minority youth in Alabama. The benefits of improving asthma control and self-management have significance for improving health, preventing disease, and reducing health disparities by addressing social, behavioral, environmental, economic, and medical determinants of health.