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Katie Stevenson

Child's Home Address Helps Predict Risk Of Readmission to Hospital - 1 views

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  • research in the American Journal of Public Health.
  • geographic social risk index
  • based on census measures of poverty, home values and number of adults with high school degrees,
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  • families likely to report financial or psychological hardship – both of which are linked to adverse asthma outcomes, says Andrew Beck, MD
  • t Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and lead author of the study.
  • could include enhanced care coordination, community health workers or help with better housing
  • Robert Kahn, MD,
  • help identify children admitted to the hospital with asthma who may need more aggressive, targeted assessments and/or interventions may prevent asthma attacks and reduce disparities,
  • increasing our ability to know a child’s likelihood of returning to the hospital
  • enhanced clinical care pathway right at the start of an admission.
  • readmissions is increasingly critical in the era of healthcare reform.”
  • (grouping households by geographic area
  • constructed the social risk index
  • assigned census tract regions
  • extreme poverty rates, median home values and high school graduation rate
  • 601 children hospitalized for asthma were evaluated and placed in one of three categories, or risk strata: low, medium or high risk.
  • 39 percent of all patients were rehospitalized or returned to the emergency room within 12 months.
  • low geographic risk, children in the high risk category were 80 percent more likely to be rehospitalized or revisit the emergency room
  • high-risk children had caregivers who were five times more likely to report two or more financial hardships in their households and three times more likely to report psychological distress.
  • medium-risk category were 30 percent more likely to be readmitted or return to the emergency room
  • . Poor, urban and minority children are at the highest risk for emergency room treatment and hospital admission
  • identification of children at increased risk could allow additional assessments and services to be put in place prior to discharge to improve patient outcomes
  • target and use scarce and overburdened hospital and community resources more efficiently.”
  • e to use the geographic social risk index to study other asthma outcomes and other conditions, such as diabetes mellitus.
  • introduction of geographic data into clinical care leads to more in-depth and reliable triage of patients.
  • helps link hospital- or community-based care to those patients most likely to benefit from it.
  • Katie Stevenson on 31 Oct 12
     
    Cincinnati Hospital finds knowing a child's address may tell if they are going to revisit or be readmitted into the hospital
Katie Stevenson

Child's Home Address Helps Predict Risk Of Readmission To Hospital - MediLexicon - 0 views

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child address hospital Science

shared by Katie Stevenson on 29 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Simply knowing a child's home address and some socioeconomic data can serve as a vital sig
  • predict which children admitted for asthma treatment are at greater risk for re-hospitalization or additional emergency room visits
  • research in the American Journal of Public Health.
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  • ," based on census measures of poverty, home values and number of adults with high school degrees, also can help hospitals identify families likely to report financial or psychological hardship
  • linked to adverse asthma outcomes
  • Andrew Beck, MD
  • incinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • geocoded home addresses (grouping households by geographic area)
  • social risk index from assigned census tract regions.
  • extreme poverty rates, median home values and high school graduation rates
  • 601 children hospitalized for asthma were evaluated and placed in one of three categories, or risk strata: low, medium or high risk.
  • 39 percent of all patients were rehospitalized or returned to the emergency room within 12 months.
  • high risk category were 80 percent more likely to be rehospitalized or revisit the emergency room.
  • high-risk children had caregivers who were five times more likely to report two or more financial hardships
  • three times more likely to report psychological distress
  • medium-risk category were 30 percent more likely to be readmitted or return to the emergency room.
  • The links between socioeconomic disparities and childhood asthma are well-established. Poor, urban and minority children are at the highest risk for emergency room treatment and hospital admission
  • do little to account for how socioeconomic disparities affect asthma.
  • help to target and use scarce and overburdened hospital and community resources more efficiently.
  • , they want to assess whether the introduction of geographic data into clinical care leads to more in-depth and reliable triage of patients.
  • data helps link hospital- or community-based care to those patients most likely to benefit from it.
  • Katie Stevenson on 29 Oct 12
     
    Child's home helps predict risk of hospitalization
Katie Stevenson

Child's home address helps predict risk of readmission to hospital - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...121018162203.htm

child address hospital

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  • Kahn, M
  • senior investigator of the Cincinnati Children's study
  • The researchers geocoded home addresses (grouping households by geographic area) and constructed the social risk index
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  • included extreme poverty rates, median home values and high school graduation rates.
  • 601 children hospitalized for asthma were evaluated a
  • 39 percent of all patients were rehospitalized or returned to the emergency room within 12 months.
  • high risk
  • category were 80 percent more likely to be rehospitalized or revisit the emergency room
  • medium-risk category were 30 percent more likely to be readmitted or return to the emergency room.
  • . Poor, urban and minority children are at the highest risk for emergency room treatment and hospital admission
  • standardize care for child asthma sufferers do little to account for how socioeconomic disparities affect asthma.
  • help to target and use scarce and overburdened hospital and community resources more efficiently.
  • "Early identification of children at increased risk could allow additional assessments and services to be put in place prior to discharge to improve patient outcomes. It also could
  • other asthma outcomes and other conditions, such as diabetes mellitus
    • Katie Stevenson
      Katie Stevenson on 29 Oct 12
       
      Doctor Beck and MD Kahn from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Knowing class, address, geography, and parents education can all help tell if a child will have asthma and be readmitted to the hospital
  • Katie Stevenson on 29 Oct 12
     
    Knowing a child's address my help prevent hospitalization
Alexis Ramsey

Human-To-Pet Transmission A Concern At The Onset Of Flu Season - 0 views

www.medicalnewstoday.com/...251146.php

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    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Still doing research, more information should some out over time
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Who would of thought that there would be a concern of human and animals sharing flu's.
  • The first recorded, probable case of fatal human-to-cat transmission of the pandemic H1N1 flu virus occurred in Oregon in 2009, Loehr said. Details were published in Veterinary Pathology, a professional journal. In that instance, a pet owner became severely ill with the flu and had to be hospitalized. While she was still in the hospital, her cat - an indoor cat with no exposure to other sick people, homes or wildlife - also died of pneumonia caused by an H1N1 infection.
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      There are allot of creditable resources in this artical.
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  • All of the animals' symptoms were similar to that of humans - they rapidly develop severe respiratory disease, stop eating and some die.
  • "All viruses can mutate, but the influenza virus raises special concern because it can change whole segments of its viral sequence fairly easily," Loehr said.
  • Veterinarians who encounter possible cases of this phenomenon can obtain more information from Loehr or Jessie Trujillo at Iowa State University. They are doing ongoing research to predict, prevent or curtail emergent events.
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Research on those two people at Iowa State University.
Katie Stevenson

Asthma Facts - 0 views

worldasthmafoundation.org/asthma-facts

asthma facts Science

shared by Katie Stevenson on 01 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • America
  • 40,000 people miss school or work due to asthma. * 30,000 people have an asthma attack. * 5,000 people visit the emergency room due to asthma. * 1,000 people are admitted to the hospital due to asthma. * 11 people die from asthma.
  • 1 in 15 Americans
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  • most common chronic condition among childre
  • common among children (7 to 10%) than adults (3 to 5%)
  • 5 million asthma sufferers are under age 18
  • (44%) of all asthma hospitalizations are for children
  • 4,000 deaths due to asthma each year,
  • Each day 11 Americans die from asthma
  • death rate for children under 19 years old has increased by nearly 80% percent since 1980.
  • Katie Stevenson on 01 Nov 12
     
    About Asthma and the effects it can have
Caitlan Granger

What Are The Long-term Effects Of Teenage Pregnancy? | LIVESTRONG.COM - 0 views

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pregnancy teenage effects

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  • Teenage mothers often experience social exclusion
  • they are twice as likely to feel depressed as compared to adult mothers
  • If the father is a teenager, he is more likely to begin to abuse drugs and alcohol than other boys his age
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  • Children born to teenage parents are more likely to lack proper prenatal care
  • also more likely to be born prematurely, have low birth weight, or become hospitalized during their childhood than children born to adults, states the March of Dimes. The same source says that babies of teenage mothers are more likely to die during their first year of life
  • the children of teenage mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, or become unemployed than the children of older women. They experience abuse and neglect quite often, and many of them become parents as teenagers.
  • Caitlan Granger on 09 Nov 12
     
    Many reliable sources and quotes, therefore this site is trustworthy.
  • Caitlan Granger on 09 Nov 12
     
    I find it strange that a child born from teen parents is more likely to become a teen parent themselves.
Katie Stevenson

Delivery By By C-Section Increases Risk Of Allergies In Childhood - 0 views

www.medicalnewstoday.com/...256832.php

research childhood allergies

shared by Katie Stevenson on 26 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • a Henry Ford Hospital study suggests that C-section babies are susceptible to developing allergies by age two.
  • was presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology annual meeting in San Antonio.
  • says Christine Cole Johnson, Ph.D., MPH, chair of Henry Ford Department of Health Sciences
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  • C-section babies have a pattern of "at risk" microorganisms in their gastrointestinal tract that may make them more susceptible to developing the antibody Immunoglobulin E, or IgE, when exposed to allergens
  • Article Date: 26 Feb 2013 - 1:00 PST
  • Katie Stevenson on 26 Feb 13
     
    Could a C-Section increase the risk of allergies in children?
Katie Stevenson

Babies born by C-section at risk of developing allergies - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...130225091904.htm

babies developing allergies research

shared by Katie Stevenson on 26 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Henry Ford Hospital study suggests that C-section babies are susceptible to developing allergies by age two.
  • develop
  • Christine Cole Johnson, Ph.D., MPH, chair of Henry Ford Department of Health Sciences and the study's lead author.
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  • C-section babies have a pattern of "at risk" microorganisms in their gastrointestinal tract that may make them more susceptible to developing the antibody Immunoglobulin E, or IgE,
    • Katie Stevenson
      Katie Stevenson on 04 Mar 13
       
      Whit is IgE? Is there a way to help prevent this from happening? Could this also cause other things in C-section babies?
Natalie Mitten

Drug overdose deaths up for 11th consecutive year - 0 views

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shared by Natalie Mitten on 21 Feb 13 - No Cached
    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 21 Feb 13
       
      I'm thinking that these studies are somewhat congruent with the new legalization of marijuana in Colorado. 
  • The University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora is considering a rule that would ban emergency doctors from prescribing more medicine for patients who say they lost their pain meds, Zane said.
    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 21 Feb 13
       
      Will that really help things? This seems unfair to those who might be using the drugs responsibly and as prescribed. Additionally, the public isn't entirely to be blamed -- these are addictive substances PRESCRIBED BY DOCTORS. They probably aren't as educated or forewarned of the risks, due to social reinforcements and our trust in doctors. 
Natalie Mitten

Have We Been Miscounting Calories? - ScienceNOW - 0 views

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    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 21 Feb 13
       
      I had no idea this was going on in Australia, good for them. 
  • cooked meat has more calories than raw.
  • Heat also denatures the proteins in vegetables such as sweet potatoes
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  • Harvard University evolutionary biologist Rachel Carmody
  • Geoffrey Livesey, a nutritional biochemist and director of Independent Nutrition Logic Ltd. in Wymondham, U.K..
  • Richard Wrangham of Harvard University
  • Klaus Englyst of Englyst Carbohydrates Ltd., a carbohydrate chemistry firm in Southampton, U.K
  • Carmody reported that she and Peter Turnbaugh of Harvard University
  • Why does all of this matter?
    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 21 Feb 13
       
      I like that he asked this in his conclusion paragraph; I think it makes the article very strong. 
  • David Ludwig, a pediatric endocrinologist at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School
  • "But why are you doing this? Will it make a real difference? If you want to lose weight, you still have to cut back on calories."
Alexis Ramsey

Can You Give the Flu To Your Dog or Cat? | Surprising Science - 2 views

blogs.smithsonianmag.com/...ive-the-flu-to-your-dog-or-cat

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    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Should we come up with a flu vaccine for animals?
  • A group of veterinarians at Oregon State and Iowa State Universities is now looking into the risk of flu for an unexpected population that doesn’t have access to flu shots: dogs, cats and other household pets.
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Good Idea. Great minds think alike.
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  • “We worry a lot about zoonoses, the transmission of diseases from animals to people,” said Christiane Loehr, a professor at the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine. “But most people don’t realize that humans can also pass diseases to animals, and this raises questions and concerns about mutations, new viral forms and evolving diseases that may potentially be zoonotic. And, of course, there is concern about the health of the animals.”
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      If this was put out more, I bet people would take this seriously in America we treat our animals like our childern.
  • H1N1 (“swine flu“) and H5N1 (“bird flu”)
  • The first recorded instance, described in an article published by the team in Veterinary Pathology, took place in Oregon in 2009.
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Look at that article.
  • While a cat owner was hospitalized with H1N1, both of her cats (which stayed indoors and had no contact with other sick people or animals) came down with flu-like symptoms and eventually died. A postmortem analysis of their lungs and nasal cavities turned up the H1N1 virus
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Proof
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Articles are mainly focusing on H1N1.
  • “It’s reasonable to assume there are many more cases of this than we know about, and we want to learn more,” Loehr said.
  • “Any time you have infection of a virus into a new species, it’s a concern, a black box of uncertainty,” Loehr noted.
  • this news might trigger immediate concern,
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      Shouldn't this be on the news then?
  • the flu could be passed from human to pet, mutate into a more dangerous form,
  • “We don’t know for sure what the implications might be, but we do think this deserves more attention.”
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 30 Oct 12
       
      I agree very much.
  • msdchemistry on 04 Nov 12
     
    A good question Alexis... I think that people would pay for a flu vaccine for their pets.
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