Evaluation of the Processes and Outcomes of a Physician Leadership Program: The Continuous Feedback Loop Design.

Introduction: Physicians assume leadership roles in their health care organizations and practices often without support or training. The Physicians Leadership Academy provides integrated leadership seminars, mindfulness training, and executive coaching in a 10-month curriculum to physicians across area organizations.

Methods: Program evaluators responded to stakeholders' need for continuous program improvement by developing a continuous feedback loop evaluation design incorporating a program monitoring system and a theory-driven program evaluation.

Mixed methods approach to understanding the influence of changes in successive versions of the advanced trauma life support training program on student performance.

Background: The Advanced Trauma Life Support course is the American College of Surgeons' standard of care for physicians who provide initial care to trauma victims. In addition to content updates, Advanced Trauma Life Support version 10 adopted contemporary learning theory and practice into the format and conduct of the training.

Methods: The study used a mixed-methods approach wherein a one-group post-test-only study of student and student refresher exam score differences was followed up with a faculty survey to qualitatively explore the quantitative findings.

A regional trauma organization as a coordinating body for a regional pandemic response: A brief report.

The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in 2019-2020 had a substantial impact on the healthcare resources of the world community. An organized regional response was essential to saving lives, preserving and distributing health care resources, and coordinating health care efforts. This brief report describes how a long-established regional trauma organization (RTO) provided that coordination in Central, Southeast, and Southeast Central Ohio during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Influence of Incentive Design and Organizational Characteristics on Wellness Participation and Health Outcomes.

Objective: To explore how changing incentive designs influence wellness participation and health outcomes.

Methods: Aggregated retrospective data were evaluated using cluster analysis to group 174 companies into incentive design types. Numerous statistical models assessed between-group differences in wellness participation, earning incentives, and over-time differences in health outcomes.

Outcomes of a conservative care program for knee osteoarthritis through translation of research into practice.

Introduction: Evidence-based guidelines suggest a conservative, nonsurgical approach as first-line treatment for knee osteoarthritis. However, previous literature has documented underutilization of the fundamental components of condition management emphasized in the guidelines. The intervention aim is to apply organized conservative components of care for knee osteoarthritis in an evidence-based management program through the translation of research into practice with a target to observe meaningful functional improvement in a distinct population.

A Blended Curriculum to Improve Resident Physical Exam Skills for Patients With Neuromuscular Disability.

Introduction: Children with neuromuscular disabilities (NMD) receive care in a wide variety of clinical settings. Residents lack training to develop physical examination skills for evaluating patients with NMD. We devised a curriculum to teach residents how to examine patients with NMD using a systematic and simplified approach.

Learning in a Web-Based World: An Innovative Approach to Teach Physical Examination Skills in Patients with Neurodisability.

Despite increasing numbers of patients with neurodisability, residents lack training to develop physical examination skills. Following a blended educational intervention combining online and bedside teaching, residents demonstrated desired patient-care behaviors on standardized clinical exam assessment.

A Randomized Controlled Trial Translating the Diabetes Prevention Program to a University Worksite, Ohio, 2012-2014.

Introduction: Working adults spend much time at the workplace, an ideal setting for wellness programs targeting weight loss and disease prevention. Few randomized trials have evaluated the efficacy of worksite diabetes prevention programs. This study evaluated the efficacy of a worksite lifestyle intervention on metabolic and behavioral risk factors compared with usual care.

Domain Analysis of Integrated Data to Reduce Cost Associated with Liver Disease.

Liver cancer, the fifth most common cancer and second leading cause of cancer-related death among men worldwide, is plagued by not only lack of clinical research, but informatics tools for early detection. Consequently, it presents a major health and cost burden. Among the different types of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common and deadly form, arising from underlying liver disease.