Implementation of Billing for Patient Portal Messages as E-Visits in a Large Integrated Health System.

Background: Patient-provider communication through the patient portal has markedly increased in recent years. Some health care facilities implemented programs to enable providers to bill for responding to patient-initiated messages that require substantive medical decision making through an e-visit.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of billing eligible patient-initiated portal messages as e-visits using a mixed-methods approach.

Behavioral Factors Related to Participation in Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring Among Adults With Hypertension: Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Remote blood pressure (BP) monitoring (RBPM) or BP telemonitoring is beneficial in hypertension management. People with hypertension involved in telemonitoring of BP often have better BP control than those in usual care. However, most reports on RBPM are from intervention studies.

Work as a social determinant of maternal health: A qualitative exploration of college-educated Black women's experiences at work during pregnancy and postpartum.

Background: Black women are disproportionately impacted by higher rates of maternal mortality in the United States (US). Limited research has focused on adverse maternal health outcomes among college-educated Black women, although research has found these outcomes persistent among this population.

Objectives: This study aimed to fill a critical gap in current research by elucidating the nuanced experiences of college-educated Black women in the workplace during pregnancy and postpartum.

Sex Differences in Nonadherence to Secondary Stroke Prevention Medications Among Patients With First-Ever Ischemic Stroke.

Background: More women than men experience recurrent strokes. Medication adherence is critical to prevent recurrence; however, studies investigating sex differences are limited. We examined sex differences in poststroke medication adherence, overall and by drug class, and identified influencing factors.

The approach of Norm Balance in predicting pharmacists' intention to collaborate with physicians to improve medication therapy.

Objective: Norm Balance is an approach under the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) where subjective norm is weighted by the relative importance of others and self-identity is weighted by the relative importance of self. The relative importance was measured previously by a trade-off measure. In this study, we developed separate measures for the relative importance.