Publications by authors named "F BIEL"
Objectives: Research on firearm violence is largely limited to people who experienced acute bodily trauma and death which is readily gathered from Inpatient and Emergency Department settings and mortality data. Exposures to firearm violence, such as witnessing firearm violence or losing a loved one to firearm violence, are not routinely collected in health care. As a result, the true public health burden of firearm violence is underestimated.
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- The study analyzes COVID-19 vaccination rates across a diverse population in the U.S. using data from OCHIN, a network of community healthcare organizations, focusing on patients aged 6 months and older.
- It found that vaccination rates increased with age, with only 11.7% of the youngest group vaccinated, compared to 72.3% of those 65 and older, and identified factors influencing higher vaccination rates like prior influenza vaccination and private insurance.
- The research revealed racial disparities, noting that Hispanic and NH Asian patients had higher vaccination rates compared to NH Black and NH Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander groups in the youngest age category.
Background: Current research on firearm violence is largely limited to patients who received care in emergency departments or inpatient acute care settings or who died. This is because standardized disease classification codes for firearm injury only represent bodily trauma. As a result, research on pathways and health impacts of firearm violence is largely limited to people who experienced acute bodily trauma and does not include the estimated millions of individuals who were exposed to firearm violence but did not sustain acute injury.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Community health centers (CHCs) provide critical health care access for people who experience high risks during and after pregnancy, however it is unclear to what extent they provide prenatal care. This study seeks to describe clinic and patient characteristics associated with longitudinal prenatal care delivery in CHC settings.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study utilized electronic health record (EHR) data from the Accelerating Data Value Across a National Community Health Center Network (ADVANCE) between 2018 to 2019 to describe prenatal care provision among CHCs ( = 408), and pregnant CHC patients ( = 28,578) and compared characteristics of patients who received longitudinal prenatal care at CHCs versus those who did not.
Objective: To describe patterns of contraceptive method switching and long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) removal in a large network of community health centers.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using individual-level electronic health record data from 489 clinics in 20 states from 2016 to 2021. We used logistic regression models, including individual-, clinic-, and state-level covariates, to calculate adjusted odds ratios and predicted probabilities of any observed contraceptive method switching and LARC removal among those with baseline incident LARC, both over 4-year time periods.