Publications by authors named "L Woodard"
Article Synopsis
- - The study examines how different levels of registered nurse (RN) staffing in Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACTs) within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) affect patient access to healthcare services.
- - It involved analyzing data from nearly 6,000 PACTs over a 24-month period, categorizing RN staffing stability into continuous churn, instability, vacancy, and stability, comparing their impact on various access measures.
- - Findings indicated that RN churn significantly negatively impacted appointment availability, while staffing instability and vacancy did not show a notable effect; overall, adequate staffing and team stability were linked to better patient access.
There is preliminary evidence that the anticonvulsant medication Zonisamide (ZON) may be an effective, well-tolerated treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). However, further evaluation of its efficacy for treating patients with AUD is needed, and much remains unknown about ZON's therapeutic mechanisms. The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of ZON in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Certain health-related risk factors require legal interventions. Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) are collaborations between clinics and lawyers that address these health-harming legal needs (HHLNs) and have been shown to improve health and reduce utilization.
Objective: The objective of this study is to explore the impact, barriers, and facilitators of MLP implementation in primary care clinics.
Background: Team-based care is critical to achieving health care value while maximizing patient outcomes. Few descriptions exist of graduate-level team training interventions and practice models. Experience from the multisite, decade-long Veterans Affairs (VA) Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education provides lessons for developing internal medicine training experiences in interprofessional clinical learning environments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study examined the proxy use of patient portals for children in a large Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) network in Texas.
Methods: We used de-identified individual-level data of patients, 0-18 years, who had 1+ visits between December 2018 and November 2020. Logistic regression was used to examine patient-, clinic-, and geographic-level factors associated with portal usage by an assumed proxy (i.