Publications by authors named "Rose Hennessy Garza"

Background: Strategic action plans around newborn health evaluation are needed, to address the high neonatal mortality rate in Nepal. Surveillance systems, like Newborn Metabolic Screening (NBS), could reveal unrecognized drivers of neonatal death. NBS is not routinely performed in Nepal.

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Importance: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines advocate reduced opioid prescribing for chronic pain, yet research on their implementation remains limited.

Objective: To compare 4 deimplementation strategies to promote guideline-concordant opioid prescribing.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This cluster randomized clinical trial was performed at 32 primary care clinics from 2 US health care systems from February 2020 to March 2022, using a hybrid type 3 sequential multiple-assignment design focused on patient outcomes.

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  • US Veterans have a significantly higher risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and the COPD CARE program aims to enhance care delivery specifically for them through improved implementation strategies.
  • The COPD CARE Academy was developed to help scale these strategies in the Veterans' Health Administration, using a mixed-methods evaluation to measure the effectiveness of its implementation.
  • Results showed that participation in the Academy led to high attendance and resource utilization among clinicians, resulting in a marked increase in their confidence to perform necessary implementation tasks related to COPD care.
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Objective: Misapplication of the 2016 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) opioid prescribing guidelines has led to overem-phasis of morphineequivalent daily dose (MEDD) as a "metric of success" in chronic noncancer pain (CNCP), resulting in unintentional harms to patients. This article reviews CNCP-related guidelines and patient preferences in order to identify pragmatic, patient-centered metrics to assess treatment response and safety in opioid-treated CNCP.

Methods: We reviewed the clinical (CDC), research (Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials), and implementability-related guidelines (GuideLine Implementability Appraisal), along with relevant patient-identified treatment goals.

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  • U.S. Veterans are at a significantly higher risk for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and the COPD CARE program was developed to improve care delivery for them.
  • The COPD CARE Academy was created to help implement this program more effectively within the Veterans' Health Administration, using a set of strategies to enhance clinician capabilities.
  • The evaluation showed promising results, with high completion rates of the Academy, positive feedback from clinicians, and a significant increase in their ability to perform key implementation tasks after participating in the program.
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Few bystander intervention trainings programs have evaluated behavioral outcomes in previously trained upper-level undergraduate students. Rigorous study designs are necessary to understand how multi-topic programs influence student outcomes to intervene against sexual violence, racism, and high-risk alcohol situations. A single-session bystander training for emphasizing communication strategies was developed for juniors and seniors on a private, Midwestern college campus.

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(1) Background: African American women breast cancer survivors face unique experiences that impact their quality of life as they transition beyond treatments. Experiences may be complicated by living at the intersection of systemically oppressed identities, including gender, race, social class, and cancer-related disability. Using the Black Feminist Thought (BFT) framework and the PEN-3 cultural model, this qualitative study sought to: (a) understand African American women breast cancer survivors' lived experiences; (b) examine how the multiple intersecting factors of race, gender, social class/socioeconomic status, and cancer-related disability impact their quality of life; and (c) inform future health promotion programming that is culturally relevant to AAWBCS to improve their quality of life.

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