Publications by authors named "K Kilpatrick"
Objective: Suboptimal primary health care management of shoulder pain has been reported in previous studies. Implementing clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) recommendations using a theoretical approach is recommended to improve shoulder pain management. This study aims to identify determinants for implementing recommendations from shoulder CPGs to help develop an intervention based on the identified determinants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) are common in long-term care facilities (LTCF) and cause significant burden. Infection prevention and control (IPC) measures include the clinical best practices (CBP) of hand hygiene, hygiene and sanitation, screening, and basic and additional precautions. Few studies demonstrate their cost-effectiveness in LTCF, and those that do, largely focus on one CBP.
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- - This study examines the effectiveness of traditional versus advanced methods for analyzing asthma-related data from electronic health records (EHR), highlighting the importance of data quality for real-world evidence in healthcare research.
- - Researchers extracted 18 specific asthma-related features from a large dataset of patient encounters and found that advanced artificial intelligence methods significantly outperformed traditional methods in accuracy, with a notable increase in F1-score from 52.2% to 94.7%.
- - The results suggest that utilizing advanced data analysis techniques can enhance the quality of real-world datasets in asthma research, providing more detailed insights into disease subtypes and symptoms, ultimately supporting better healthcare decisions.
Opportunity Cost of Surgical Management of Craniomaxillofacial Trauma: A Longitudinal Study.
Craniomaxillofac Trauma Reconstr
October 2024
Study Design: Single-institution retrospective financial analysis.
Objective: Trauma care is consistently linked to inadequate reimbursement, posing a significant financial burden for large trauma centers. Data show that declining Medicare reimbursement rates have indirectly led to declining payment for all procedures covered by insurance.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted advanced practice nurses' practice and posed great challenges in patient care delivery.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the practice of advanced practice nurses in mainland China and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR). Methods A cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted March 2021 and January 2022.