Where Do Physicians Train? Investigating Public And Private Institutional Pipelines [Health Professions]

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1. Geographic Variation In Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations In France [Global Health & Disparities] Potentially avoidable hospitalizations are studied as an indirect measure of access to primary care. Understanding the determinants of these hospitalizations can help improve the quality, efficiency, and equity of health care delivery. Few studies have tackled the issue of potentially avoidable hospitalizations in France, and none has done so at the national level. We assessed disparities in potentially avoidable hospitalizations in France in 2012 and analyzed their determinants. The standardized rate of potentially avoidable hospitalizations ranged from 0.1 to 44.4 cases per 1,000 inhabitants, at the ZIP code level. Increased potentially avoidable hospitalizations were associated with higher mortality, lower density...
2. Society may be willing to pay a high price to prevent child abuse and neglect, study suggests Writer: Kirk McAlpin, 706/542-8078, kmm3@uga.edu Contact: Phaedra Corso, 706/583-8926, pcorso@uga.edu Feb 18, 2011, 13:23   Athens, Ga. – The amount the public will pay to prevent the death of a child may be twice that of an adult, according to a new University of Georgia study that asked 199 individuals how much they would pay to prevent a death from child abuse or neglect. read more...
3. Redesigned Geriatric Emergency Care May Have Helped Reduce Admissions Of Older Adults To Intensive Care Units [Improving Care Systems] Charged with transforming geriatric emergency care by applying palliative care principles, a process improvement team at New York City’s Mount Sinai Medical Center developed the GEDI WISE (Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations in Care through Workforce, Informatics, and Structural Enhancements) model. The model introduced workforce enhancements for emergency department (ED) and adjunct staff, including role redefinition, retraining, and education in palliative care principles. Existing ED triage nurses screened patients ages sixty-five and older to identify those at high risk of ED revisit and hospital readmission. Once fully trained, these nurses screened all but 6 percent of ED visitors meeting the screening...
4. Despite Resources From The ACA, Most States Do Little To Help Addiction Treatment Programs Implement Health Care Reform [Behavioral Health] The Affordable Care Act (ACA) dramatically expands health insurance for addiction treatment and provides unprecedented opportunities for service growth and delivery model reform. Yet most addiction treatment programs lack the staffing and technological capabilities to respond successfully to ACA-driven system change. In light of these challenges, we conducted a national survey to examine how Single State Agencies for addiction treatment—the state governmental organizations charged with overseeing addiction treatment programs—are helping programs respond to new requirements under the ACA. We found that most Single State Agencies provide little assistance to addiction treatment programs. Most agencies are helping programs develop collaborations with...
5. Focus on Faculty, Dr. Phaedra Corso http://uga.edu/faculty/profile/phaedra-corso/...