6 results match your criteria: "From the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion[Affiliation]"
Assessment of Racial Bias within the Risk Analysis Index of Frailty.
Ann Surg Open
December 2024
From the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA.
Objective: Our objective was to assess potential racial bias within the Risk Analysis Index (RAI).
Background: Patient risk measures are rarely tested for racial bias. Measures of frailty, like the RAI, need to be evaluated for poor predictive performance among Black patients.
Specimen Pooling to Conserve Additional Testing Resources When Persons' Infection Status Is Correlated: A Simulation Study.
Epidemiology
November 2020
From the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA.
In the early stages of a novel pandemic, testing is simultaneously in high demand and low supply, making efficient use of tests of paramount importance. One approach to improve the efficiency of tests is to mix samples from multiple individuals, only testing individuals when the pooled sample returns a positive. To reflect potential clusters of cases that might queue at a testing site and that might increase the efficiency of batch testing, I simulate 10,000 persons being tested in sequence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDual Health Care System Use and High-Risk Prescribing in Patients With Dementia: A National Cohort Study.
Ann Intern Med
February 2017
From the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
Background: Recent federal policy changes attempt to expand veterans' access to providers outside the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Receipt of prescription medications across unconnected systems of care may increase the risk for unsafe prescribing, particularly in persons with dementia.
Objective: To investigate the association between dual health care system use and potentially unsafe medication (PUM) prescribing.
Insourcing health care innovation.
N Engl J Med
May 2014
From the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center (D.A.A.); and the Center for Health Care Innovation, Perelman School of Medicine (D.A.A., C.T., K.B.M., R.R.), and the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, the Wharton School (C.T.), University of Pennsylvania - all in Philadelphia.
The Counseling African Americans to Control Hypertension study and ways to enhance the next wave of behavioral interventions.
Circulation
May 2014
From the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; Perelman School of Medicine, Wharton School, and Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Are we in a medical education bubble market?
N Engl J Med
November 2013
From the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center; and the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - all in Philadelphia (D.A.A.); Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (S.N.); the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA (S.N.); and the American Dental Association, Chicago (M.V.).