The objective of this study was to elicit patient perspectives on the experience of living with serious illness while incarcerated. The study was conducted at …
Obesity is multifactorial as genetics and behaviors, such as diet and physical activity, influence risk. The comorbidities of childhood obesity have long term sequelae leading …
Background: Minority race and lack of insurance have been independently associated with worse trauma outcomes. It is unclear however, if racial discrepancies in trauma outcomes …
Erroneous radiotherapy prescriptions (Rx) can lead to injury or death of patients. A machine learning model developed in our previous work employs similarity learning to …
Background: The spectrum of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is of significant concern in the realm of high impact contact sports, including mixed martial arts (MMA). …
Backgroung: Research on the undergraduate population has highlighted the growing popularity of cognitive enhancing substances, such as amphetamines and methylphenidate, by students. Given that psychostimulant …
There exists a time frame after mild Traumatic Brain Injuries (mTBI) in which pathophysiological changes still remain within the brain during which a second injury …
Background: Adolescent pregnancy can be medically and psychologically complicated, and birth experience can be traumatic. Literature about perinatal mental health and birth experience is predominantly …
Background: Disease presentations can vary between different skin phototypes, at times requiring unique management and therapies. Medical education curriculum has yet to be updated to …
Sexual dimorphism is present clinically in a number of cardiopulmonary diseases but little is known about sexual dimorphism at the cellular level. Enclosed in this …
Background—Several studies have shown that black patients are less likely than white patients to undergo coronary revascularization after acute myocardial infarction. The progress towards health …
Purpose. Determine the prevalence of trauma exposure, before and after the implementation of a trauma screener among free clinic patients. Methods. An initial retrospective medical …
Many states, including Rhode Island, have begun to collect insurance claims data to better understand healthcare spending and local health outcomes. In this study, we …
In 2018, as part of the Promoting Interoperability Programs, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) developed a value-based reimbursement system that incentivizes clinics …
Objectives. To better understand how the contextual circumstances and lifestyle of commercial fishermen influence their access to healthcare and potentially contribute to the use and …
Importance: While mindfulness as a treatment for addiction has been objectively studied in a variety of settings, relatively little focus has been given to the …
Background Falls represent the leading cause of nonfatal unintentional injuries among children in the U.S. While unintentional injury risks have been studied, neighborhood impact on …