Publications by authors named "Earla White"

Introduction: Academic health centers are poised to improve health through their clinical, education, and research missions. However, these missions often operate in silos. The authors explored stakeholder perspectives at diverse institutions to understand challenges and identify alignment strategies.

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Context: Federally funded Community, Migrant, and Homeless Health Centers provide health services to the most vulnerable communities in the United States. However, little is known about their capabilities and processes for providing vaccinations to adults.

Program: We conducted the first national survey of health centers assessing their inventory, workflow, capacity for, and barriers to provision of routinely recommended adult vaccines.

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The purpose of this study was to assist military communities of interest to more accurately identify service members who may have emotional and behavior disorders. Specifically, this study identifies service members' perceptions of the Department of Defense Post-Deployment Health Reassessment (PDHRA) screening instrument for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Findings were that responses to the PDHRA were related to how it was administered and the respondents' perceptions of how the PTSD diagnosis could affect the ability to obtain jobs and obtain promotions.

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Health systems science (HSS) is an emerging discipline addressing multiple, complex, interdependent variables that affect providers' abilities to deliver patient care and influence population health. New perspectives and innovations are required as physician leaders and medical educators strive to accelerate changes in medical education and practice to meet the needs of evolving populations and systems. The purpose of this paper is to introduce gaming science as a lens to magnify HSS integration opportunities in the scope of medical education and practice.

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Purpose: The primary aim of this study was to explore the relationship between a pediatric pressure injury prevention bundle (PPIPB) implemented by pediatric hospitals across the nation and pressure injury (PI) rates over a 6-year period. A secondary aim of this study was to identify whether any one risk factor addressed in the PPIPB had a greater effect on PI occurrences than any other factor.

Design: Nonexperimental, retrospective correlation analysis of secondary data.

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