Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. Electronic address: ssherman@jhsph.edu.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. Electronic address: ju.park@jhu.edu.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, 615 N. Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. Electronic address: sabarouhani@gmail.com.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Health Behavior, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute, Emeryville, California. Electronic address: ptrangenstein@arg.org.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, (hlane@som.umaryland.edu), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Growth and Nutrition Division, 737 West Lombard St., Baltimore, MD 21201.
Department of Surgery Outcomes Research Center, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: oluwasegun.akinyemi@howard.edu.
This article analyzes and reflects on Dr. Rima Rudd's organizational health literacy ideas and tools and their influence on the field generally and on four projects over 12 years in Maryland specifica...
We present four organizational health literacy projects - two from oral health and two from COVID-19 vaccination - that used or were influenced by Dr. Rudd's the Health Literacy Environment of Hospita...
In the oral health projects, we describe the organizational assessments we conducted, the assessment results, and the actions organizations took in response. In a Frederick, Maryland, COVID-19 project...
Our results confirm that Dr. Rudd's tools work mainly as intended because they help organizations or third-party evaluators identify health literacy barriers and create health literacy insights. Also,...
Translating knowledge and skills to actions can require more time than organizations can commit or be more difficult than they can handle. In our projects, the four most positive examples were driven ...
Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests there has been a rise in violent crimes. This study sought to examine trends in injury characteristics of homicide victims in Maryland. We hypothesized that there ...
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is a statewide agency designated by law to investigate all homicides, suicides, or unusual or suspicious circumstances. Using individual autopsy reports, we co...
Of 6,500 homicides (annual range 403 to 589), the majority were from firearms (75%), followed by stabbings (14%) and blunt assaults (10%). Most homicide victims died in the hospital (60%). The average...
In Maryland, the intensity of violence increased across all major mechanisms of homicide. Further follow-up studies are needed to elucidate the root causes underlying this escalating trend....
Over the last few decades, more attention has been paid to the physician gender pay gap and more interventions have been attempted. This paper discusses the physician gender pay gap between 2017 and 2...
An online cross-sectional survey was distributed to over 10,000 physicians in the Maryland Medical Society, featuring questions regarding employment characteristics, compensation, impact of the COVID-...
Male physicians reported a significantly higher average 2020 pre-tax income ($333,732 per year) than female physicians ($225,473 per year,...
The physician gender pay gap in Maryland has remained relatively stable over four years, including the period of the COVID-19 pandemic....
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a major health concern in the United States (US), with its incidence, severity, and outcomes influenced by social determinants of health, including socioeconomic ...
To determine the independent association between DCI and CAP-related admissions in Maryland....
We conducted a retrospective study using the Maryland State Inpatient Database (SID) to collate data on CAP-related admissions from January 2018 to December 2020. The study included adults aged 18-85 ...
In the study period, 61,467 cases of CAP-related admissions were identified. The patients were predominantly White (49.7%) and female (52.4%), with 48.6% being over 65 years old. A substantive associa...
Residents of the poorest neighborhoods in Maryland have the highest risk of CAP-related admissions, emphasizing the need to develop effective public health strategies beneficial to the at-risk patient...
Clinical trials examining lifestyle interventions for weight loss in cancer survivors have been demonstrated to be safe, feasible, and effective. However, scalable weight loss programs are needed to s...
The objectives of this protocol paper are to describe the design of a nonrandomized pragmatic trial, study recruitment, and baseline characteristics of participants....
Participants were aged ≥18 years, residing in Maryland, with a BMI ≥25 kg/m...
Participants were recruited across all 5 geographic regions of Maryland. Targeted invitations using EHRs accounted for 287 (84.4%) of the 340 participants enrolled. Of the 5644 patients invited throug...
Using EHR-based recruitment efforts, this study took a pragmatic approach to reach and enroll cancer survivors into remotely delivered weight loss programs....
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04534309; https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04534309....
DERR1-10.2196/54126....
As a result of the success of Maryland's full risk capitated payment model experiment (Global Budget Revenue) in constraining healthcare costs, there is momentum for expanding the reach of such models...
Cross-sectional study using a difference-in-difference analysis to examine changes in patient experiences according to the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) dom...
A total of 844 hospitals were included. Compared to hospitals in non-GBR states, hospitals in GBR states experienced significant declines in the following HCAHPS domains: "would definitely recommend t...
These findings suggest there should be efforts made to ascertain and mitigate potential adverse effects of care transformation initiatives on patient experience. Patients are stakeholders and their in...
While health care payers are increasingly considering approaches that help support stable and affordable housing for their beneficiaries, experience with these initiatives is limited. Through its §111...
The study focused on key stakeholders employed by the four Lead Entities that currently participate in the ACIS program. The stakeholders included members of each Lead Entity's administration, direct ...
A total of 23 interviews were conducted between February 2022 and May 2022, representing a broad range of stakeholders across different Maryland geographies. A total of 4 themes were identified throug...
The findings of this study helps to highlight Medicaid §1115 waivers as a novel approach to using Medicaid funds to support tenancy-based services, such as ACIS and to improve the lives of individuals...
Polysubstance use is a highly prevalent public health issue, particularly among adolescents, and decisions on prevention programming and policies are often made at the local level. While there is a gr...
Using a large, representative sample of high school students from the state of Maryland (...
The results of the LCA show three classes of adolescent substance use for the total sample: (1) low substance use, (2) commonly used substances (i.e., e-cigarette, alcohol, and cannabis use), and (3) ...
These differences demonstrate the need for an examination of local trends in adolescent polysubstance use to inform multi-tiered prevention programming and policy....
Firearm injuries are the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the US. Safe storage of firearms in the home is one of the most effective ways of preventing firearm injuries in child...
Vibrio spp. naturally occur in warm water with moderate salinity. Infections with non-cholera Vibrio (vibriosis) cause an estimated 80,000 illnesses and 100 fatalities each year in the United States. ...
Vibriosis case data for Maryland (2006-2019; n = 611) were obtained from the COVIS database. Incidence rates were calculated using U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for Maryland. A logistic regr...
Comparing the 2006-2012 and 2013-2019 periods, there was a 39% (p = 0.01) increase in the average annual incidence rate (per 100,000 population) of vibriosis, with V. vulnificus infections seeing the ...
Long-term increases in Vibrio infections, notably V. vulnificus wound infections, are occurring in Maryland. This trend, along with increased rates in hospitalizations and average hospital durations, ...
