Publications by authors named "Mira D Vale"

There is growing interest in standardizing data about social determinants of health (SDOH) in electronic health records (EHRs), yet little is known about how clinicians document SDOH in daily practice. This study investigates clinicians' strategies for working with SDOH data and the challenges confronting SDOH standardization. Drawing on ethnographic observation, interviews with patients and clinicians, and systematic review of patient EHRs-all at an urban teaching hospital in the US Midwest-we analyze three strategies clinicians deploy to integrate SDOH data into patient care.

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Objective: To identify factors independently associated with program participation and knowledge of campus processes to address sexual assault and harassment complaints.

Participants: 1,182 undergraduates who completed the University of Michigan's 2015 campus climate survey on topics of sexual assault and harassment (67% response rate).

Methods: We analyze survey responses to estimate multivariable models that identify subgroups of the student population least likely to have participated in programs or to know campus processes.

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Oocyte cryopreservation (i.e., egg freezing) is one of the newest forms of assisted reproduction and is increasingly being used primarily by two groups of women: (1) young cancer patients at risk of losing their fertility through cytotoxic chemotherapy (i.

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Classical medical sociological theory argues patients trust doctors in part because they are professionals. Yet in the past half-century, medicine has seen a crisis of trust as well as fundamental changes to the nature of professionalism. To probe the relationship between professionalism and trust today, we analyzed interviews with 50 psychiatric patients receiving care in diverse clinical settings.

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In this article, we elucidate how elective egg freezing (EEF) has been received within the three Abrahamic traditions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-and how these religion-specific standpoints have affected the EEF experiences of women who self-identify as religiously observant. Through an analysis of religious women's narratives, the study explores the "local moral worlds" of religious women who chose to freeze their eggs for non-medical reasons. It draws on ethnographic interviews with 14 women in the United States and Israel who had completed at least one EEF cycle, and who were part of a large, binational study that interviewed, between 2014 and 2016, 150 women who pursued EEF.

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Objective: Posttraumatic growth (PTG) has been documented in the aftermath of a range of traumatic events, including bereavement, physical assault, and rape. However, only a handful of studies have examined whether levels of total PTG, as well as the 5 domains of PTG (Appreciation of Life, New Possibilities, Relating to Others, Personal Strength, and Spiritual Change), vary by the type of potentially traumatic event. The current study examined variation in total PTG and PTG domains, as well as posttraumatic stress (PTS), by event type using data from a large epidemiological study.

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Background And Objective: Little research exists which investigates the contextual factors and hidden influences that inform surgeons and surgical teams decision-making in preoperative assessment when deciding whether to or not to operate on older adult prostate cancer patients living with aging-associated functional declines and illnesses. The aim of this study is to identify and examine the underlying mechanisms that uniquely shape preoperative surgical decision-making strategies concerning older adult prostate cancer patients.

Methods: Qualitative methodologies were used that paired ethnographic field observations with semistructured interviews for data collection.

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