FEATURE STORIES

Text Messages Saved Lives

Kit Delgado, Anna Morgan, and Krisda Chaiyachati find that COVID Watch, an automated texting program, managed COVID patients at home and enabled them to present earlier and more often for emergency care when they needed treatment.

Reducing Bias Through Clinician Social Networks 

In Nature Communications, Damon Centola and colleagues show that clinicians participating in an “egalitarian” social network reduced gender and racial inequities in clinical assessments and treatment recommendations.

The Health Policy Importance of Sleep

Science Magazine featured research by Heather Schofield on the productivity and health effects of poor-quality sleep in low-income communities.

Communication of Inpatient Visitation Policies 

Joanna Hart and Justin Clapp analyze restrictive hospital visitation policies during COVID-19 and recommend ways to improve communication of these policies to patients and communities.

Training Nurses as Innovative Engineers

Marion Leary advocates for training more nurse-engineers who can design innovative workspaces and equipment to improve patient care.

VIRTUAL SEMINAR RECAP

COVID-19 Vaccines:
One Year Later

Our recent virtual seminar reconvened a panel of experts to talk about what we’ve learned about COVID-19 vaccines, what we’re still learning, and what we can expect for the future.

EVENTS 

Reforming Primary Care for a 21st Century Health Care System 

Friday, February 4, 2022
12:00–1:00 p.m. ET

Virtual Seminar with Patrick Conway, MD, Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, Linda A. McCauley, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAAOHN, J. Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH, FAAFP, and Ellen-Marie Whelan, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, moderated by Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD

An Action Plan for Reducing Opioid
Overdose Deaths 

Friday, March 4, 2022
12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Virtual Seminar with Keith Humphreys, PhD, and Regina LaBelle, JD, moderated by Shoshana Aronowitz, PhD, FNP-BC, MSHP

IN THE MEDIA

“Don’t Mock ‘Tree Equity.’ It Has Health Benefits.” Eugenia South, Washington Post

“Mixed-Status Immigrant Families Have Complex Health Insurance Needs That Require Simple Solutions.” Diana Montoya-Williams, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Putting Medicaid Behind Bars.” Daniel Teixeira da Silva, The Hill

“The Pandemic Has Deeply Affected Many People With Eating Disorders.” David A. Asch, STAT

“Fewer Than 5% of Kids Aged 5-11 in Philly Have Gotten Their First COVID Shot. That’s Not Nearly Enough.” Roy Wade, Philadelphia Inquirer

PUBLICATIONS

“The Estimated Impact of State-Level Support for Expanded Delivery of Substance Use Disorder Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Elizabeth D. Nesoff, Megan E. Marziali, Silvia S. Martins. Addiction 

“The Relative Contributions of Biomarkers, Disease Modifying Treatment, and Dementia Severity to Alzheimer's Stigma: A Vignette-Based Experiment.” Shana D. Stites, Jeanine Gill, Emily A. Largent, Kristin Harkins, Pamela Sankar, Abba Krieger, Jason Karlawish. Social Science & Medicine

“Getting Proximate - Flipping the Mentorship Paradigm to Promote Health Equity.” Aditi Vasan, Ashlee Harris, Shreya Kangovi, Kevin B. Mahoney. The New England Journal of Medicine

“Patient Outcomes and Cost Savings Associated With Hospital Safe Nurse Staffing Legislation: An Observational Study.” Karen B. Lasater, Linda H. Aiken, Douglas Sloane, Rachel French, Brendan Martin, Maryann Alexander, Matthew D. McHugh. BMJ Open 

“Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioural Science.” Katherine L. Milkman, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, et al. Nature

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