A5014454840- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Team Dynamics and Performance
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Career Development and Diversity
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Business Strategy and Innovation
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2019-2022
University of Illinois System
2015
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2005-2011
Abstract— Overweight in childhood sets the stage for a lifelong struggle with weight and eating raises risk of health problems, such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, sleep apnea, heart disease. Research from multiple disciplinary fields has identified scores contributing factors. Efforts to integrate these factors into single "big picture" have been hampered by challenges constructing theoretical models that are both comprehensive developmentally adaptable. This article reviews...
We examined the possibility that teams composed primarily of individuals with personality characteristics conducive to team creativity (e.g., high extraversion, openness experience, low conscientiousness, neuroticism, agree‐ableness) would show synergistic increases in when they experienced levels “team creative confidence”, a shared understanding is more than each member individually. tested these hypotheses using sample 145 three‐student worked on set idea generation tasks at Time 1 (T1)...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Family-centered rounds (FCRs) have become standard of care, despite the limited evaluation FCRs’ benefits or interventions to support high-quality FCR delivery. This work examines impact checklist intervention, a and associated provider training, on performance elements, family engagement, patient safety. METHODS: cluster randomized trial involved 298 families. Two hospital services were use checklist; 2 others delivered usual care. We evaluated 8 elements...
Abstract This study examined the possibility that sibling demographic differences (i.e., age and sex between focal individual his or her siblings) sibsize number of children in individual's family) moderate relation an birth order creativity. A total 359 undergraduates described their family background then were assigned to small teams work on 8 problem-solving tasks. Each contributions tasks evaluated for creativity by teammates. Results showed firstborns with large groups more creative...
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES People with dementia (PwD) frequently use emergency care services. To mitigate the disproportionately high rate of by PwD, an understanding contributing factors driving reliance on services and identification feasible alternatives are needed. This study aimed to identify clinician, caregiver, service providers' views experiences unmet needs leading among community‐dwelling PwD alternative ways addressing these needs. DESIGN Qualitative, employing semistructured...
About half of older adults with impaired cognition who are discharged home from the emergency department (ED) return for further care within 30 days. We tested effect an adapted Care Transitions Intervention (CTI) at reducing ED revisits in this vulnerable population.
Improving care transitions following emergency department (ED) visits may reduce post-ED adverse events among older adults (e.g., ED revisits, decreased function). The Care Transitions Intervention (CTI) improves hospital-to-home transitions; however, its effectiveness at improving outcomes is unknown. We tested the of CTI with community-dwelling adult patients, hypothesizing that it would revisits and increase performance self-management behaviors during 30 days discharge.We conducted a...
Older adults discharged from the emergency department (ED) are at high risk for adverse outcomes. Adherence to ED discharge instructions is necessary reduce those risks. The objective of this study determine individual-level factors associated with adherence among older adult outpatients.We performed a secondary analysis data control group randomized controlled trial testing care transitions intervention (age ≥ 60 years) home in two states. Taking patient surveys and chart reviews, we used...
Falls among older adults are both a common reason for presentation to the emergency department, and major source of morbidity mortality. It is critical identify fall patients quickly reliably during, immediately after, department encounters in order deliver appropriate care referrals. Unfortunately, falls difficult without manual chart review, time intensive process infeasible many applications including surveillance quality reporting. Here we describe pragmatic NLP approach automating...
Despite a high prevalence and association with poor outcomes, screening to identify cognitive impairment (CI) in the emergency department (ED) is uncommon. Identification of high-risk subsets older adults critical challenge expanding programs. We developed evaluated an automated tool subset patients at risk for CI.
Predictive models are increasingly being developed and implemented to improve patient care across a variety of clinical scenarios. While body literature exists on the development using existing data, less focus has been placed practical operationalization these for deployment in real-time production environments. This case-study describes challenges barriers identified overcome such an model aimed at predicting risk outpatient falls after Emergency Department (ED) visits among older adults....
Persons with dementia use emergency department services at rates greater than other older adults. Despite risks associated use, persons and their caregivers often seek to address needs symptoms that could be managed within primary care settings. As departments (EDs) are typically sub-optimal environments for addressing dementia-related health issues, facilitating effective provision is critical reduce the need for, or decision seek, services. The aim of this study explore how features...
The present study was designed to bridge previous research on cooperative decision making and mixed-motive interactions. structure of the group tasks studied in literature is such that all members simultaneously experience motives compete cooperate accurately recognize reward same for everyone. In contrast, considers members' can also vary a task surface appears purely cooperative. We conducted laboratory experiment using decision-making we varied number who were given competitive incentives...
We assessed fidelity of delivery and participant engagement in the implementation a community paramedic coach-led Care Transitions Intervention (CTI) program adapted for use following emergency department (ED) visits.
Background: Older adults frequently return to the emergency department (ED) within 30 days of a visit. High-risk patients can differentially benefit from transitional care interventions. Latent class analysis (LCA) is model-based method used segment population and test intervention effects by subgroup. Objectives: We aimed identify latent classes an older adult randomized controlled trial evaluating effectiveness ED-to-home program whether membership modified effect. Research Design:...
The Family Caregiver Activation in Transitions (FCAT) tool its current, non-scalar form is not pragmatic for clinical use as each item scored and intended to be interpreted individually. purpose of the current study was create a scalar version FCAT facilitate better care communications between hospital staff family caregivers. We also assessed scale's validity by comparing measure against patient health measures. Data were collected from 463 caregiver-patient dyads January 2016 July 2019. An...
Abstract Background Up to half of community‐dwelling older adults with impaired cognition who are discharged home from the emergency department (ED) return for further care within 30 days. We examined effects delivering Care Transitions Intervention (CTI) adult patients ED, hypothesizing that CTI would decrease ED revisits in following Method conducted a pre‐planned sub‐analysis (age≥60 years) participating single‐blind, randomized controlled trial testing effectiveness adapted use...