In November, Penn LDI and Penn Nursing convened experts and stakeholders in a virtual workshop to discuss expanding scope of practice for Pennsylvania nurses. Our new policy brief summarizes the recommendations that emerged.
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Hans-Peter Kohler, Iliana Kohler, and colleagues at Penn’s Population Aging Research Center found that population blood pressure screening in Malawi led to a 22-percent point drop in the likelihood of being hypertensive four years later.
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Research by Margo Brooks Carthon and Heather Brom finds that Black patients were up to 30% less likely to survive in-hospital cardiac arrests than white patients, and racial disparities worsened when nurses cared for greater numbers of patients.
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Rebecca Stewart, Courtney Wolk, and David Mandell interviewed 25 executive directors of publicly-funded opioid treatment organizations in Philadelphia to understand barriers to medications for opioid use disorder.
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Anne Teitelman has developed her third smartphone app related to human papillomavirus vaccine and cancer.
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Friday, February 12, 2021 | 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Voting, Structural Racism, and Health Inequities
A Virtual Conversation with Nicole Austin-Hillery, JD, Daniel E. Dawes, JD, and Javier Rodríguez, PhD, moderated by Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD
Co-hosted with Bold Solutions, a University of Pennsylvania initiative aimed at addressing the effects of interpersonal, structural, and institutional racism on health; and co-sponsored by Opportunity for Health Lab.
Co-hosted with the Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE@LDI). Open to Penn affiliates with registration (Penn, CHOP, UPHS, PVAMC).
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Unintentional Fatal and Nonfatal Emergency Medical Services-Attended Opioid Overdoses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Philadelphia, JAMA Network Open, January 2021, Utsha G. Khatri, Lia N. Pizzicato, Kendra Viner, Emily Bobyock, Monica Sun, Zachary F. Meisel, Eugenia C. South
The Cost of Quarantine: Projecting the Financial Impact of Canceled Elective Surgery on the Nation’s Hospitals, Annals of Surgery, January 2021, Sourav K. Bose, Serena Dasani, Sanford E. Roberts, Chris Wirtalla, Ronald P. DeMatteo, Gerard M. Doherty, Rachel R. Kelz
Factors Associated With US Public Motivation to Use and Distribute COVID-19 Self-tests, JAMA Network Open, January 2021, Cedric Bien-Gund, Karen Dugosh, Trisha Acri, Kathleen Brady, Harsha Thirumurthy, Jessica Fishman, Robert Gross
Black-White Disparities in Maternal In-Hospital Mortality According to Teaching and Black-Serving Hospital Status, American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, January 2021, Heather H. Burris, Molly Passarella, Sara C. Handley, Sindhu K. Srinivas, Scott A. Lorch
Characteristics, Outcomes, and Trends of Patients With COVID-19-Related Critical Illness at a Learning Health System in the United States, Annals of Internal Medicine, January 2021, George L. Anesi, Juliane Jablonski, Michael O. Harhay, Joshua H. Atkins, Jasmeet Bajaj, Cameron Baston, Patrick J. Brennan, Christina L. Candeloro, Lauren M. Catalano, Maurizio F. Cereda, John M. Chandler, Jason D. Christie, Tara Collins, Katherine R. Courtright, Barry D. Fuchs, Emily Gordon, John C. Greenwood, Steven Gudowski, Asaf Hanish, C. William Hanson Iii, Monica Heuer, Paul Kinniry, Zev Noah Kornfield, Gregory B. Kruse, Meghan Lane-Fall, Niels D. Martin, Mark E. Mikkelsen, Dan Negoianu, Jose L. Pascual, Maulik B. Patel, Steven C. Pugliese, Zaffer A. Qasim, John P. Reilly, John Salmon, William D. Schweickert, Michael J. Scott, Michael G. S. Shashaty, Corinna P. Sicoutris, John K. Wang, Wei Wang, Arshad A. Wani, Brian J. Anderson, Jacob T. Gutsche
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