We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.
The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ...
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
The Placing Social Determinants of Health in Context: Mental Health tool is now available on the Neighborhood Health Partnerships Program website! These tools were developed to provide examples of evidence-informed linkages between living conditions and health care quality and outcomes. This tool can be used to help with grant applications, meetings with decision makers and… Read more »
Despite landmark clinical studies showing that early detection and treatment can prevent 90% of blindness, receipt of diabetic eye screening remains around 50% among patients in the USA. Screening rates are even lower in underserved communities. In this study, authors including HIP Investigators Dr. Yao Liu and Dr. Meghan Brennan used the WHIO All-Payer Claims… Read more »
There is an urgent need for culturally tailored diabetes self-management education to improve health outcomes in African Americans, especially given the disproportionate prevalence of diabetes and medication non-adherence. Stakeholder engagement can guide and enrich the development of these interventions by integrating content directly addressing barriers to African Americans’ adherence with existing community-based diabetes self-management education… Read more »
One of the key challenges in successful deployment and meaningful adoption of AI in healthcare is health system-level governance of AI applications. Such governance is critical not only for patient safety and accountability by a health system, but to foster clinician trust to improve adoption and facilitate meaningful health outcomes. In this case study from… Read more »
Existing patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may be limited in their applicability to populations that are at risk for inequities. In this study, HIP Investigator Dr. Christie Bartels conducted a systematic review to identify and rate evidence in the validation studies for PROMs in populations at risk for inequity. This study highlights… Read more »
Healthy Metric went live today, releasing five new brief reports focused on health disparities in Wisconsin. These first reports provide an initial look at the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on health and health disparities. The first five reports provide an initial look at the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on health and… Read more »
Patients identified as black and from disadvantaged backgrounds have a twofold higher hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) non-adherence, which contributes to worse lupus outcomes and disparities. Yet, most adherence interventions lack tailored strategies for racially and socioeconomically diverse patients who face unique challenges with HCQ. This study from HIP Investigator Dr. Christie Bartels aimed to examine a broadly… Read more »
The objective of this study including HIP Investigator Dr. Ryan Coller was to evaluate associations between faculty gender and milestone-based teaching assessment scores assigned by residents. They performed a retrospective cohort study of milestone-based clinical teaching assessments of pediatric faculty completed by pediatric residents at a mid-sized residency program from July 2016 to June 2019.… Read more »
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, two leading causes of premature death in Americans (CDC – High Blood Pressure). In fact, heart disease is the leading cause of death in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Department of Health Services – Heart Disease). One in about every 10 people in… Read more »
Inclusion of minority women in gynecologic research is vital for preventing health care inequities and disparities. This research involving HIP Investigator Dr. Heidi Brown was conducted to determine how frequently race and ethnicity data were reported in oral presentations at the Society for Gynecologic Surgeons (SGS)’s annual meeting. The abstracts and articles associated with SGS… Read more »
Recent Comments