A5010504142- Head and Neck Cancer Studies
- Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
- Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Dysphagia Assessment and Management
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Oral health in cancer treatment
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Radiology practices and education
- Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Radiation Dose and Imaging
- Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Esophageal and GI Pathology
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
Northeastern University
2022-2025
Universidad del Noreste
2024
La Jolla Alcohol Research
2024
San Diego State University
2020-2023
University of California, San Diego
2021-2022
University of Montana
2022
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
2014-2021
Mission Hospital
2021
New York State Nurses Association
2021
Johns Hopkins Medicine
2017-2019
Importance Previous reports regarding comparative suicide incidence among US physicians vs nonphysicians have been inconclusive. Objective To estimate the national of male and female physician analyze associated factors, comparing findings to general population. Design, Setting, Participants This retrospective cohort study investigated suicides aged 25 years older in from January 2017 December 2021. The analysis took place November 2023 September 2024. National Violent Death Reporting System...
Planned organizational change has a long history in formal organizations of all types.A model planned from the existing literature can be used to identify set principles which offered for use during current COVID-19 crisis, but this traditional may not fully adequate especially challenging period.A relatively new field complexity theory organizations, Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS), offers promise addressing unique crisis conditions facing hospitals era.These require constant assessment;...
Purpose: To develop a hypothesis‐generating framework for automatic extraction of dose‐outcome relationships from an in‐house, analytic oncology database. Methods: Dose–volume histograms (DVH) and clinical outcomes have been routinely stored to the authors’ database 684 head neck cancer patients treated 2007 2014. Database queries were developed extract that had assessed at least 100 patients, as well DVH curves organs‐at‐risk (OAR) contoured patients. paired OAR (e.g., left right parotids)...
The aim of this study was to estimate the national incidence nurse suicide.
Abstract Aims and objectives To describe the substance use mental health characteristics of nurses who complete suicide compared to non‐nurses. Background Nurses are at higher risk than general population. The relationship between use, in a large sample USA has not been previously described. Design Retrospective observational quantitative analysis. Methods Suicide data were retrospectively analysed Centers for Disease Control Prevention National Violent Death Reporting System from 2003 2017....
Suicide is one of the leading causes death worldwide, and estimates suicide among health professionals are higher than general population. High rates physicians nurses have been described previously, but there a lack data for suicides completed by pharmacists.The purpose this study was to quantify incidence, means, characteristics pharmacist in United States.Data were obtained from Centers Disease Control Prevention's National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) years 2003-2018. The...
Nurses die by suicide at a higher rate than the general population. Previous studies have observed mental health problems, including substance use, as prominent antecedent before death. The purpose of this study was to explore characteristics nurses who died documented in death investigation narratives from National Violent Death Reporting System 2003 2017 using thematic analysis and natural language processing. One thousand three hundred fifty-eight subjects met these inclusion criteria....
Nurses are known to be at an increased risk of death by suicide, and recent studies have found links between nurse substance use, mental health issues, job problems. Because stigma, inaccessibility resources, regulatory legal nurses unlikely seek help unless a crisis forces them into treatment. The purpose this article is review the current understanding psychological impact novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, strategic planning approach identify needs nurses, promising interventions...
Nurses are facing increased mental health issues, substance use, and even suicide since the novel coronavirus pandemic arrived in United States. with use disorder (SUD) may enroll alternative-to-discipline (ATD) programs to retain their license during initial treatment goal return practice, but this process is not without challenges. For example, previous analyses have shown that time surrounding disciplinary/regulatory regarding by either employers or licensure boards was a trigger for...
Individuals with cancer and risky alcohol illicit substance use (AISU) are more likely to suffer diminished quality of life subpar treatment outcomes. The prevalence AISU in patients is poorly understood.This article reports on the results a needs assessment quantify individuals seeking care radiation oncology department large, academic medical center.Medical records were reviewed for all seen one-week (five-day) period fall 2014 (N = 397). Demographic data analyzed.The rates this sample...
Abstract Background Survivorship care plans contain important information for patients and primary physicians regarding appropriate cancer survivors after treatment. We describe the completeness of prostate survivorship evaluate concordance follow‐up recommendations with guidelines. Methods analyzed 119 from one academic community center, abstracting demographics, cancer/treatment details, recommendations. Follow‐up were compared American Cancer Society (ACS), Clinical Oncology (ASCO),...