Publications by authors named "Mason Shaner"
Objective: Family-centered rounds (FCR) is the standard for pediatric communication, but community pediatric hospital medicine services may face barriers in implementation, including offering FCR to families with a language preference other than English (LOE) versus those with an English preference (EP). The goal of our quality improvement project was to increase FCR from 33% to 80% over 1 year.
Methods: Interventions included an FCR checklist integrated into the electronic healthcare record (EHR-FCR checklist), staff education, visual prompts, and interpreters.
Article Synopsis
- Clinical reasoning is crucial for safe patient care but often difficult to teach; the CRISP curriculum addresses this gap by incorporating illness scripts to improve learning in family medicine residents.
- CRISP consists of four 1-hour sessions focused on common pediatric complaints, and an evaluation showed it was more preferred than traditional lectures among learners and instructors.
- The curriculum significantly enhanced knowledge on specific pediatric issues, with pre-/posttest scores indicating marked improvements in understanding among residents (e.g., respiratory distress scores increased from 72% to 92%).
Bioengineered stem cells in neural development and neurodegeneration research.
Ageing Res Rev
June 2013
The recent discovery of a simple method for making induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) from human somatic cells was a major scientific advancement that opened the way for many promising new developments in the study of developmental and degenerative diseases. iPSC have already been used to model many different types of neurological diseases, including autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Because of their pluripotent property, iPSC offer the possibility of modeling human development in vitro.
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