Defining Doctoral-Prepared Health Scientists' Identity.

Teamwork skills across disciplines are increasingly required for delivery of quality health care. To meet this expectation, healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, and educators must embrace and employ the tenets associated with teamwork. In addition, health professions faculty are expected to prepare entry-level professionals for interprofessional practice and scholarship.

Self-Report of Changes in Cognitive-Communication Function and Social Engagement Among Adults With Cancer-Related Cognitive Impairment.

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the prevalence of cognitive-communication deficits in adult cancer survivors who reported experiencing cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI). The study also aimed to determine how these problems impact their ability to engage socially and find satisfaction in their social roles.

Method: This study employed a cross-sectional survey to collect data from adult cancer survivors.

Emergency Department Visits for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Associations with Geriatric Age, Sex, and Fall Injury.

Purpose: The highest rates mTBI occurrence are seen among geriatric populations (ages ≥65), and these patients often have persistent and untreated symptoms. This study's purpose was to explore mild traumatic brain injury initial onset (mTBI-IN) and mild traumatic brain injury subsequent (mTBI-S) emergency department (ED) visit population percentages and associations with geriatric (population ages ≥65), sex, and fall mechanism of injury.

Methods: The design was a population-based cross-sectional study using data from the 2018 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS).

Non-Medical Characteristics Affect Referral for Advanced Heart Failure Services: a Retrospective Review.

Background: Patients with advanced heart failure (AHF) are extensively evaluated before heart transplantation or left ventricular assist device (LVAD) eligibility. Patients are assessed for medical need and psychosocial or economic factors that may affect success post-treatment. For patients to be evaluated, however, they first must be referred.

Acute Effects of Ice Hockey on Hip Range of Motion, Strength, and Pelvic Tilt in Competitive Male Players.

Background: Ice hockey players are at high risk for hip and groin injury. Several risk factors have been identified or proposed, including lower hip rotation range of motion (ROM), lower hip adductor strength, lower ratio of hip adductor to abductor strength, and lower pelvic tilt angle. It is not known how these risk factors change acutely with ice hockey participation.

Methods of Current Practice: Qualitative Analysis of Intervention Strategies Utilized by Vaccine Waiver Educators in Michigan.

By enacting administrative rule 325.176 (12), Michigan added a vaccine education component as a precondition to granting vaccine waivers to vaccine-hesitant parents wishing to file a nonmedical vaccine exemption for their school-aged child. The purpose of the study was to identify best practices for reaching vaccine-hesitant parents during face-to-face vaccine education sessions conducted by vaccine waiver educators in Michigan.

Geographic hot spot analysis of vaccine exemption clustering patterns in Michigan from 2008 to 2017.

Objective: This study explored vaccine exemption clustering in Michigan and examined whether vaccine exemptions clustered by exemption type (medical, religious, and philosophical). Furthermore, the study investigated whether Michigan's nonmedical vaccine exemption policy change had an impact on type-specific vaccine exemption clusters following its implementation.

Methods: The study used the ArcGIS optimized hot spot analysis tool to visually examine vaccine exemption clustering by type in Michigan.

Using buprenorphine to treat patients with opioid use disorder.

The US opioid epidemic is a complex problem that has resulted in legislative actions to make treatment more accessible to patients. Physician assistants (PAs) have taken an active role in expanding their scope of practice to keep up with treatment needs. This article describes opioid use disorder in the United States, treatment gaps, safe treatment with buprenorphine, and PA prescriptive authority.

The Impact of Michigan's Nonmedical Vaccine Exemption Rule Change on Philosophical Exemption Rates.

To examine school factors associated with philosophical exemption rates among kindergarteners in Michigan from 2014, before Michigan's implementation of administrative rule 325.176 (12), to 2015, after the rule change revising the process for receiving nonmedical exemptions from school entry vaccines. The study explored the extent to which the factors-school type, geographical location, and socioeconomics-were associated with philosophical exemptions among kindergarteners before and after the rule change, using negative binomial regression and Spearman's Rho correlation.

The development of a standards-based national curriculum framework for regulatory food safety training in the United States.

In response to the recognized need for a training system to support an integrated food safety system in the U.S., the International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) in Battle Creek, Michigan, designed a career-spanning curriculum framework.

Exploration of commonalities and variations in health related beliefs across four Latino subgroups using focus group methodology: implications in care for Latinos with type 2 diabetes.

Latinos, now the largest U.S. ethnic minority, have a high risk for type 2 diabetes.

Shoulder injuries in US high school baseball and softball athletes, 2005-2008.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine factors that are involved in shoulder injury rates among high school athletes who participate in organized baseball and softball.

Methods: Baseball- and softball-related injury data were collected during the 2005-2008 academic years from approximately 74 nationally representative high schools via High School Reporting Information Online.

Results: Certified athletic trainers reported 91 baseball shoulder injuries and 40 softball shoulder injuries during 528147 and 399522 athlete exposures, respectively.

Validating the utility of the Spanish version of the American Diabetes Association Risk Test.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) Risk Test, often used for decisions to blood glucose screen or not, lacks studies reporting the reliability or validity for the Spanish version of the tool. The objective of this study is to further validate the utility of the Spanish version of the ADA's Risk Test for Latino Populations. A convenience sample of 316 Latinos participated in this study.

A national, geographic database of CDC-funded HIV prevention services: development challenges and potential applications.

Background: From 2000-2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded a study that was designed to improve the information available to program planners about the geographic distribution of CDC-funded HIV prevention services provided by community-based organizations (CBOs). Program managers at CDC recognized the potential of a geographic information system (GIS) to organize and analyze information about HIV prevention services and they made GIS a critical component of the study design. The primary objective of this study was to construct a national, geographically-referenced database of HIV prevention services provided by CDC-funded CBOs.

Vaccine coverage levels after implementation of a middle school vaccination requirement, Florida, 1997-2000.

Objective: Little information is available about the effectiveness of school entry vaccination requirements at the middle school level. This study examined coverage levels among students entering seventh grade in Florida following implementation of a school entry vaccination requirement in 1997.

Methods: The authors analyzed county-specific vaccination coverage levels (three doses of hepatitis B vaccine, a second dose of measles, mumps, and rubella [MMR] vaccine, and a booster dose of tetanus and diphtheria toxoids [Td]) among students entering public and private schools in Florida from 1997 through 2000.