Mobile Health Apps, Family Caregivers, and Care Planning: Scoping Review.

Background: People living with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) face substantial challenges in planning and coordinating increasingly complex care. Family caregivers provide important assistance for people with MCCs but lack sufficient support. Caregiver apps have the potential to help by enhancing care coordination and planning among the health care team, including patients, caregivers, and clinicians.

Sustainable Development for Mobile Health Apps Using the Human-Centered Design Process.

Well-documented scientific evidence indicates that mobile health (mHealth) apps can improve the quality of life, relieve symptoms, and restore health for patients. In addition to improving patients' health outcomes, mHealth apps reduce health care use and the cost burdens associated with disease management. Currently, patients and health care providers have a wide variety of choices among commercially available mHealth apps.

Ethics and frontline nursing during COVID-19: A qualitative analysis.

Background: Nurses experienced intense ethical and moral challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our 2020 qualitative parent study of frontline nurses' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic identified ethics as a cross-cutting theme with six subthemes: moral dilemmas, moral uncertainty, moral distress, moral injury, moral outrage, and moral courage. We re-analyzed ethics-related findings in light of refined definitions of ethics concepts.

Nursing perspectives about the critical gaps in public health emergency response during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Introduction: The purpose of this qualitative study was to synthesize frontline U.S. nursing perspectives about the current state of U.

Stakeholder Mapping on the Development of Digital Health Interventions for Self-Management Among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in China.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a progressive lung disease consisting of chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Digital Health Interventions (DHIs) can improve COPD patients' self-management. However, the market penetration of DHIs is lower than expected.

Reflections From the Middle: Exploring the Experience of Nurse Managers Across the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objective: The objective of this multisite study was to explore the professional and personal experiences of US nurse managers (NMs) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: NMs are the most accessible and visible nurse leaders to the frontline staff during this pandemic.

Methods: Thirty-nine NMs from 5 health systems across the US participated in focus groups in this qualitative study.

Ketogenic diet, African American women, and cardiovascular health: A systematic review.

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death in the United States of America and across the world. The high prevalence of obesity (56.9%) in African American women contributes to high rates of CVD.

United States nurses' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: A grounded theory.

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore nurses' experiences and perceptions at selected United States (U.S.) healthcare sites during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mobile Health Applications, Cancer Survivors, and Lifestyle Modification: An Integrative Review.

Cancer survivors' well-being is threatened by the risk of cancer recurrence and the increased risk of chronic diseases resulting from cancer treatments. Improving lifestyle behaviors attenuates these risks. Traditional approaches to lifestyle modification (ie, counseling) are expensive, require significant human resources, and are difficult to scale.

Electronic health record-based assessment of cardiovascular health: The stroke prevention in healthcare delivery environments (SPHERE) study.

< 3% of Americans have ideal cardiovascular health (CVH). The primary care encounter provides a setting in which to conduct patient-provider discussions of CVH. We implemented a CVH risk assessment, visualization, and decision-making tool that automatically populates with electronic health record (EHR) data during the encounter in order to encourage patient-centered CVH discussions among at-risk, yet under-treated, populations.

The geographic distribution of cardiovascular health in the stroke prevention in healthcare delivery environments (SPHERE) study.

Background: Community-level factors have been clearly linked to health outcomes, but are challenging to incorporate into medical practice. Increasing use of electronic health records (EHRs) makes patient-level data available for researchers in a systematic and accessible way, but these data remain siloed from community-level data relevant to health.

Purpose: This study sought to link community and EHR data from an older female patient cohort participating in an ongoing intervention at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center to associate community-level data with patient-level cardiovascular health (CVH) as well as to assess the utility of this EHR integration methodology.

EHR-based Visualization Tool: Adoption Rates, Satisfaction, and Patient Outcomes.

Background: Electronic health records (EHRs) have the potential to enhance patient-provider communication and improve patient outcomes. However, in order to impact patient care, clinical decision support (CDS) and communication tools targeting such needs must be integrated into clinical workflow and be flexible with regard to the changing health care landscape.

Design: The Stroke Prevention in Healthcare Delivery Environments (SPHERE) team developed and implemented the SPHERE tool, an EHR-based CDS visualization, to enhance patient-provider communication around cardiovascular health (CVH) within an outpatient primary care setting of a large academic medical center.