Publications by authors named "James M Pribble"

Article Synopsis
  • Medical drones could enhance emergency response times, but concerns about dispatch and bystander safety need to be addressed.
  • This study tested a new set of drone-specific dispatch instructions (DSDI) against traditional medical instructions to see if they improved bystander interactions in simulated emergency scenarios.
  • Though DSDI did not significantly reduce the time to provide care, it effectively improved bystander safety, showing potential value in the future deployment of medical drones.
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Aim: Resuscitation from out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) requires success across the entire chain of survival. Using a large state-wide registry, we characterized variation in clinical outcomes at hospital discharge in Michigan hospitals.

Methods: We utilized the Michigan Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) and included adult OHCA subjects with return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) from 2014 - 2017 that survived to hospital admission.

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Study Objective: Large-scale quality and performance measurement across unaffiliated hospitals is an important strategy to drive practice change. The Michigan Emergency Department Improvement Collaborative (MEDIC), established in 2015, has baseline performance data to identify practice variation across 15 diverse emergency departments (EDs) on key emergency care quality indicators.

Methods: MEDIC is a unique physician-led partnership supported by a major third-party payer.

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Objective: To assess how West Nile virus (WNV) was reported to the American public on local television news and identify the main factors that influenced coverage.

Methods: A representative sample of WNV stories that were reported on 122 local television news stations across the United States during October 2002, covering 67% of the nation's population, were coded for self-efficacy, comparative risk scenarios, symptoms and recommendations, high-risk individuals, and frame. In addition, public service professionals (PSPs) interviewed in the segments were identified.

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Background: Local television news is America's primary source of information and may be an opportunity to shape public opinion surrounding issues such as injury prevention.

Objective: This study sought to systematically evaluate unintentional-injury coverage on local television news and to identify frequently interviewed public-service professionals and factors associated with discussion of risk factors and prevention.

Methods: Late news broadcasts from 122 local television stations within the U.

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Background: Local television is the primary news source for the majority of Americans. This study aims to describe how local news reports on kidney disease.

Methods: Using our searchable database of health-related late local news segments from 2002, we identified stories with the key words kidney, hypertension, blood pressure, or diabetes.

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Background And Purpose: Local television news commonly reports on health. This study aimed to characterize local TV news stroke reporting in America.

Methods: Content analysis of stroke stories reported on 122 US local television stations.

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Background: Local television news is the number 1 source of information for most Americans, and media health reporting has increased significantly during the past 10 years.

Objective: To evaluate the health topics and reporting characteristics of health stories on local television news across the United States.

Study Design: Content analysis of full-length broadcasts of local television news from a representative sample of the top 50 US media markets (122 stations).

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