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Women With Breast Cancer Who Work For Accommodating Employers More Likely To Retain Jobs After Treatment.
Health Aff (Millwood)
February 2017
Cathy J. Bradley is associate director for population sciences research in the Department of Health Systems, Management, and Policy at the University of Colorado, Denver.
Breast cancer affects one in eight women across the United States, and low-income minority survivors of breast cancer are at increased risk of job loss, compared to higher-income white survivors. Employer accommodations, such as schedule flexibility, have been associated with job retention in higher-income whites, but the role of such accommodations in job retention among low-income minorities is not well understood. We conducted a longitudinal study of 267 employed women ages 18-64 who were undergoing treatment for early-stage breast cancer and spoke English, Chinese, Korean, or Spanish.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluation of a Motivational Interviewing Training Program for Tobacco Cessation Counseling in Primary Care.
Fed Pract
August 2016
is a nurse scientist and MD/PhD fellowship co-director for the Seattle-Denver Center of Innovation at the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System and an associate professor of health systems, management, and policy at the University of Colorado School of Public Health, both in Denver. is a core investigator for the VA Health Services Research and Development Center (HSR&D) for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System in California. is assistant professor in the division of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health, and an affiliate investigator at the VA Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research (CCDOR) in Minneapolis. and are core investigators, is a study coordinator, and is director at the CCDOR, and is an implementation research coordinator for the VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative, Substance Use Disorder; all at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System. is an affiliate investigator for the VA HSR&D Center for Health Information and Communication at Richard L. Roudebush VAMC in Indianapolis and the head of pharmacy practice at Purdue University in West Lafayette, both in Indiana. Dr. Widome and Dr. Hagedorn are assistant professors, Dr. Nelson and Dr. Fu are associate professors, and Dr. Roth is a professor, all at the University of Minnesota.
Training sessions that offer feedback and coaching to trainees are effective in helping participants retain motivational interviewing skills for tobacco cessation counseling.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFor many patients who use large amounts of health care services, the need is intense yet temporary.
Health Aff (Millwood)
August 2015
Patricia Gabow is a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and, now retired, was CEO at Denver Health.
Patients who accumulate multiple emergency department visits and hospital admissions, known as super-utilizers, have become the focus of policy initiatives aimed at preventing such costly use of the health care system through less expensive community- and primary care-based interventions. We conducted cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 4,774 publicly insured or uninsured super-utilizers in an urban safety-net integrated delivery system for the period May 1, 2011-April 30, 2013. Our analysis found that consistently 3 percent of adult patients met super-utilizer criteria and accounted for 30 percent of adult charges.
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