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  • Sheps Center publications from PubMed

    Promoting and Highlighting Research in Assisted Living to Inform Practice and Policy
    - Sheryl Zimmerman

    Although assisted living has become the largest residential provider of long-term care, the amount of research conducted in nursing homes far surpasses that conducted in assisted living; therefore, it is important to both increase the amount of assisted living research and to highlight research findings that can inform practice and policy. This article presents a summary of 10 academic articles published in 2024 considered to be the most innovative, methodologically rigorous, and relevant to [...]

    Validity of Area-Based Social Risk Indices Used at Higher-Level Geographies and Clinic Locations
    - Nathaniel Hendrix

    CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this cohort study of the association between patient outcomes and area-based social risk indices at different geographic levels and using clinic location as a proxy for home address, indices calculated using county and 3-digit ZCTA data available in popular claims databases generally misrepresented patient risk at more granular area levels of Census block group and tract. Clinic addresses were not useful for measuring patients' social risks. [...]

    Understanding Person-Centeredness in a Systemic Perspective: Implications for Long-Term Care
    - Ayesha Syed

    Person-centeredness is generally viewed at the interpersonal level of one-on-one interactions, but broader systemic components affect these interactions. Individuals (micro level) are embedded institutions (meso level) which are embedded in society (macro level), all of which affect person-centeredness. This special article draws on five discussion groups with diverse participants to better understand person-centeredness in a systemic context. Insight indicated four key issues inherent in [...]

    Pediatric clinician perspectives on clinical decision support tools for chronic kidney disease risk after preterm birth
    - Keia Sanderson

    CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric clinicians prefer EHR-integrated, evidence-based, family-centered CDS tools to guide CKD risk identification after preterm birth. These findings represent an important step toward developing a pediatric kidney disease risk stratification CDS tool. [...]

    Personal and Family History of Cancer and Primary Lung Cancer Prevalence Among Never Smoking Disaggregated Asian American Women
    - Bani Kaur

    CONCLUSIONS: Never-smoking disaggregated AsA women show heterogeneous lung cancer prevalence, with higher prevalence in Korean women with personal cancer-history and in Chinese women with family cancer-history compared with NHW, supporting history-informed and ethnic-specific lung cancer screenings. [...]