This research was supported in part by grants from the Raskob Foundation to Vanderbilt University and from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the University of Iowa’s Prevention Research Center (grant number: U48/CCU720075). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official v...

OBJECTIVES Institutional review boards (IRBs), designed to protect individual study participants, do not routinely assess community consent, risks, and benefits. Community groups are establishing ethics review processes to determine whether and how research is conducted in their communities. To strengthen the ethics review of community-engaged research, we sought to identify and describe these ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to determine: (1) the differences between Spanish and Colombian cultures in relation to community social support variables, and (2) the relationships between community social support variables and child maltreatment in both cultures. METHOD The study was based on 670 nonabusive families and 166 abusive families. The parents were asked to complete the Communi...

The organization Community Partners HealthNet (CPH), Inc. is a so-called Health-Center-Controlled Networks (HCCNs) that provide health information technologies, in particular Electronic Health Records and Data Warehouse, to participating community health centers (CHC) and rural health clinics (RHC). All 16 member organizations (CHCs and RHCs) in CPH are non-profit health care organizations prov...

Although anecdotal evidence suggests that healthcare organizations are relatively slow to innovate, several healthcare organizations are engaging in innovative practices to improve patient care. Facing significant operational challenges, regional healthcare organizations often provide unique and focused services benefiting the entire community. We adapt the dynamic capabilities theory and proce...

Objective: We used MEDMARX, the national medication error-reporting program, to compare medication errors reported by critical access hospitals (CAHs) to those reported by non-Federal, general community hospitals. Methods: We used the availability of pharmacist support to represent the structure and process of medication use and within-cluster resampling to account for the correlation of error ...

In this study, we examine the social networking practices of the 100 largest nonprofit organizations in the United States. More specifically, we develop a comprehensive classification scheme to delineate these organizations' use of Facebook as a stakeholder engagement tool. We find that there are 5 primary categories of Facebook"statuses", which can be aggregated into three key dimensions -"inf...

The purpose of this research is to identify and compare the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for Staff Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in a community of education and business organizations and prepare recommendations for more efficient staff CPD using ICT. Obviously ICT use for CPD helps to overcome traditional barriers, such as lack of financial resources, time, e...