Dr. Christie Bartels seeks to improve cardiovascular health and reduce disparities for patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Through their Connect Health interventions, her research program investigates how collaboration among specialists, primary care, and public health resources affects management of modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factors in at-risk patients. Additionally, her team… Read more »
The Medical College of Wisconsin’s Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s Wisconsin Partnership Program have announced a joint three-year, $3 million grant to launch an expansive new statewide partnership that will study, measure and recommend solutions for health inequities across the state of Wisconsin. Under this new… Read more »
Black individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) are less likely to receive effective treatment and more likely to be incarcerated compared to White individuals. Despite this, research documenting racial disparities in healthcare use among people with SUD releasing from prison is limited. The goal of this study from HIP Investigator Dr. Marguerite Burns was to:… Read more »
The 2020 Wisconsin Health Disparities Report: Rural and Urban Populations was released at the WCHQ Health Disparities Assembly meeting on November 12, 2020. The assembly featured urban and rural perspectives on health disparities from experts in their fields: HIP Investigator, Jennifer Weiss, MD, MS and Matt Gigot, MPH, presented the findings from the 2020 report… Read more »
Dr. Edmond Ramly has been named one of the 2021 ICTR-CAP Stakeholder & Patient Engaged Research Pilot Awards for his Addressing disparities in the primary care of chronic conditions in the COVID-19 era: A tool for clinics to map local barriers to known strategies project. The grant’s objective is to engage diverse stakeholders with a… Read more »
Black women are more likely than White women to experience poor communication during perinatal health care encounters. Disparities in patient-doctor communication and treatment may partially explain why Black women have a twofold higher risk of severe maternal morbidity and a threefold higher risk of pregnancy-related death than White women. In this article from HIP Investigator… Read more »
With the release of the 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) Management Guidelines for Adults with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer, treatment decisions for low-risk thyroid cancer became more complicated. Although the guidelines were meant to supplement shared patient-healthcare provider decision-making, the patient-provider deliberation often fails to meet the informational standards for patients and can often exclude available… Read more »
A new publication by Dr. Christie Bartels was recently featured in a press release by Wiley. Although smoking increases symptoms and health risks for patients with rheumatic diseases, interventions to help patients quit are rarely available at rheumatology clinics. In this article, authors implemented a rheumatology staff-driven protocol, Quit Connect, to increase the rate of… Read more »
Although smoking is a risk factor for patients with rheumatic conditions and contributes to greater symptom severity and cardiovascular disease risk, standard smoking cessation intervention is rare in rheumatology clinics. Primary care uses brief staff protocols to connect patients to free, state-run tobacco cessation quit line resources, but this approach had not been previously tested… Read more »
Thirty-day hospital readmissions in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) approach proportions in Medicare-reported conditions including heart failure (HF). In this study from HIP Investigators Dr. Christie Bartels and Dr. Meggang Yu, they compared adjusted 30-day readmission and mortality among SLE, HF, and general Medicare to assess predictors informing readmission prevention. This database study used a 20%… Read more »
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