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Bills to Restrict Access to and Harm From Indoor Tanning Facilities in US State Legislatures, 1992‒2023.
Am J Public Health
November 2024
David B. Buller, Julia Berteletti, and Irene Adjei are with Klein Buendel Inc, Golden, CO. Carolyn Heckman and Anna Mitarotondo are with the Rutgers Cancer Institute, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Kevin R. J. Schroth is with the School of Public Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Alan C. Geller is with the T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Jerod L. Stapleton is with the College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington. Samantha R. Guild is with the AIM at Melanoma Foundation, Frisco, TX. Jeffrey E. Gershenwald is with the M D Andersen Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston. Robert Dellavalle is with the Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Sherry Pagoto is with the Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
To describe progression, content, and stringency of state legislation regulating indoor tanning and association with state government political party leadership. Trained research assistants used legal mapping methods to code legislative bills on indoor tanning introduced in US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. We calculated composite scores on the stringency of age restrictions and of warnings, operator requirements, and enforcement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLimitations With California Medicaid Data for Palliative and End of Life Care Quality Measures.
J Pain Symptom Manage
November 2024
Department of Medicine, University of California (A.M.W., N.S.W., M.G.-J., D.Z.), Los Angeles, USA.
In 2014 the California legislature passed Senate Bill 1004 (SB 1004) that was designed to expand access to specialty palliative care for individuals served by California's Medicaid (known as Medi-Cal) Managed Care Plans (MCPs). The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) operationalized the legislation by developing minimum requirements for palliative care programs that all MCPs must meet or exceed. Quality and utilization data specific to California's Medicaid population are needed for stakeholders to identify care deficiencies and disparities, describe the end of life experience and utilization patterns of MCP members, compare these patterns to Medicare beneficiaries or other populations, and set appropriate targets to help monitor progress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProgressive Reduction in Preventable Mortality in a State Trauma System Using Continuous Preventable Mortality Review to Drive Provider Education: Results of Analyzing 1,979 Trauma Deaths from 2015 to 2022.
J Am Coll Surg
April 2024
From the Department of Surgery, College of Medicine (Mabry, Davis, Robertson, Wyrick, Collins, Kalkwarf) University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR.
Background: The state legislature codified and funded the Arkansas Trauma System (ATS) in 2009. Quarterly preventable mortality reviews (PMRs) by the ATS began in 2015 and were used to guide state-wide targeted education to reduce preventable or potentially preventable (P/PP) deaths. We present the results of this PMR-education initiative from 2015 to 2022.
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