A5079904762- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Infection Control in Healthcare
- Diabetes Management and Research
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
Massachusetts General Hospital
2023-2025
Boston Medical Center
2020-2023
Abstract Background Adhering to best practices in infection prevention and control (IPC) can be challenging emergency departments (EDs) due high patient volumes, acuity of illness, limited initial information about patients’ history, among other factors. Understanding ED healthcare personnel’s (HCP) perceptions is important for improving IPC this environment.Table 1.Demographics interviewees. Methods Between August 2023 November 2023, we conducted semi-structured interviews focused on with...
Background Mobile interventions hold promise as an intervention modality to engage children in improving diabetes self-management education, attitudes, and behaviors. Objective This pilot study aimed explore the usability, acceptability, feasibility of delivering a mobile educational tool parent-child pairs clinical setting. Methods mixed methods comprised two concurrent phases with differing participants. Phase 1 used user testing interviews collect qualitative data on usability...
Abstract Background Infection prevention and control (IPC) is especially challenging in the emergency care setting due to ever-increasing department (ED) crowding, boarding of patients, increasing rates staff turnover, other factors. Methods 2022 IPC practices ED were queried between January April 2023 using National Emergency Department Inventories (NEDI)-USA survey, which administered annually all United States EDs. In a subset EDs, expanded survey assessed reported adherence policies,...