Technological innovations have given health services providers the means to diagnose and treat an increasing number of problems and illnesses. They can used to diagnose and treat illness, prevent disease, maintain patient well being, or facilitate the provision of health services. Integration and coordination of health services could result in optimal use of scarce and expensive resources. By l...

In Rhode Island, health care access, whether measured as having a regular source of care or as having health insurance, is better than the U.S. average. However, health care access does not necessarily translate into better health outcomes. Rhode Island has not fared better than the rest of the nation in ending or decreasing health disparities across socioeconomic and racial demographics in spi...

Health literacy has gained momentum within the field of heath promotion research and practice as the health system has becomemore complex, and people are expected to have more responsibility for self-care. There are multiple conceptual dimensions and definitions of health literacy [1], but the most widely used conceptual definition is: Health literacy is the cognitive and social skills that det...

common to both these compounds (Heath & Wildy, 1956a, b). These results indicated that this fungus forms ergothioneine by methylation and sulphuration of histidine. Subsequent work (Wildy & Heath, 1956, 1957) revealed that [2(ring)-14C]histamine would not serve as a precursor of the imidazole nucleus of either histidine or ergothioneine. Various metabolites of histamine, imidazoles possessing m...

Purpose: The study purpose was to examine the relationships among: (1) EHR adoption stage, (2) missed nursing care and (3) nursing practice environment, on hospitalized patient adverse outcomes and satisfaction. Scope: The analytic sample consisted of data on 854,258 adult patients discharged from 70 New Jersey hospitals in 2006 and 7,679 nurses working in those same hospitals. Methods: This se...