The Healthy Aging in Rural Towns (HeART) Toolkit contains guidelines and resources for conducting a needs-and-assets assessment and for choosing strategies to strengthen your community’s support network and help older adults thrive. Although the toolkit was designed primarily for use by rural communities, other communities will also find this guide useful, as the steps to… Read more »
The American Urogynecologic Society’s (AUGS) Pelvic Floor Disorder Registry for Research (PFDR-R) is a volunteer, multi-centered, 3-year, prospective cohort of patients undergoing treatment for pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Using the American Urogynecologic Society multicenter Pelvic Floor Disorder Registry for Research, this study from HIP Investigator Dr. Heidi Brown compared generic quality of life (QOL) in… Read more »
ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) predominantly affects older adults. Lower incidence among younger patients may challenge diagnosis. This study from HIP Investigator Dr. Brian Patterson was a 3-year, 10-center retrospective cohort study that included emergency department (ED) STEMI patients at or above 18 years of age treated with emergent PCI to determine if there is… Read more »
Workflows associated with health care delivery vary between settings, and understanding similarities and dissimilarities can inform context-sensitive practice change. Clinical workflows are complex, dynamic, and context-dependent, and comparing workflow across multiple settings can support tailored implementation of practice-change interventions. In this publication, HIP Investigator Dr. Edmond Ramly et al. propose a methodology for comparative workflow… Read more »
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a connective tissue disease with disproportionate incidence in people of color and low socioeconomic status that involves both acute inflammation and chronic systemic damage. There is growing evidence to suggest that smoking is also associated with cumulative chronic damage in lupus. This retrospective cohort study from HIP Investigator Dr. Christie… Read more »
The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) is a voluntary, non-profit consortium of healthcare provider organizations committed to public reporting in an effort to bring meaning to performance measurement information that improves the quality and affordability of healthcare in Wisconsin, in turn improving the health of individuals and communities. Physician groups, hospitals, and health plans… Read more »
UW Health is the nationally recognized, integrated health system of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, with approximately 1,500 physicians serving more than 600,000 patients each year in the upper Midwest and beyond. Its faculty and researchers engage in research, education, and clinical care at UW Health’s clinic locations, University Hospital, UW Health at the… Read more »
Emergency department (ED) visits for falls among older adults are often sentinel events for poor health trajectories; however, challenges exist in defining fall‐related visits in the ED. Authors including HIP Investigators Dr. Brian Patterson and Dr. Maureen Smith developed and validated a simple rules‐based Natural language processing system that accurately identified falls from the text… Read more »
Most women aged 65 and older have incontinence, associated with high healthcare costs, institutionalization, and negative quality of life, but few seek care. Mind over Matter: Healthy Bowels, Healthy Bladder (MOM) is a small-group self-management workshop, led by a trained facilitator in a community setting, proven to improve incontinence in older women. The main objective… Read more »
We are pleased to announce the pilot launch of the UW ICTR Neighborhood Health Partnerships Program (NHP). Finding timely and accurate local health data – health information at the sub-county level – is a challenge we all face when prioritizing, scoping, implementing and evaluating health and health equity work. Health information is often only available… Read more »
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