Publications by authors named "J V Warkentin"
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to enhance outcomes for newborns with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) by adopting an eat, sleep, console (ESC) approach and changing hospital monitoring policies.
- - A chart review showed that neonates receiving the ESC intervention had shorter hospital stays (average 4.53 days) compared to those under the previous monitoring method (average 7.45 days), although more in the ESC group were given morphine.
- - Nurses generally reacted positively to the ESC implementation, believing it was both safe and manageable, indicating a successful policy shift in the hospital.
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates in the Republic of the Marshall Islands are among the highest in the world, 480/100,000 in 2017. In response, the Health Ministry completed islandwide screening in Ebeye Island in 2017.
Methods: Participants were interviewed to obtain TB history, exposures, and symptoms.
Therapeutic drug monitoring and TB treatment outcomes in patients with diabetes mellitus.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
February 2023
Diabetes mellitus (DM) increases the risk of TB disease and poor treatment outcomes such as delayed sputum culture conversion due to inadequate drug exposure. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) has improved these outcomes in some settings. To compare treatment outcomes in programs with routine TDM vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs of March 2021, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had led to >500,000 deaths in the United States, and the state of Tennessee had the fifth highest number of cases per capita. We reviewed the Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 surveillance and chart-abstraction data during March 15‒August 15, 2020. Patients who died from COVID-19 were more likely to be older, male, and Black and to have underlying conditions (hereafter comorbidities) than case-patients who survived.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Treatment of tuberculosis infection (TBI) in individuals at high risk for tuberculosis (TB) disease is a priority for TB elimination in the US. Newly arrived refugees in Middle Tennessee are screened for TBI, but factors associated with gaps in the TBI care cascade are not well characterized.
Methods: We assessed the TBI care cascade from US entry to completion of treatment for refugees who resettled in Middle Tennessee from 2012 through 2016.