Symptoms of Diabetes by Linda B. Bobroff

“…If you have any of the following symptoms of diabetes, see your health care provider right away! (Remember, sometimes type 2 diabetes has no symptoms.) …”
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Symptoms of Diabetes by Linda B. Bobroff

“…If you have any of the following symptoms of diabetes, see your health care provider right away! (Remember, sometimes type 2 diabetes has no symptoms.) …”
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Commonly Asked Questions about Probiotics and the Potential Benefits for Your Health by Fiona Desland, Lauren Christiansen, Mafuza Rahman, Karim Khan, Anastasia Potts, Claudio F. Gonzalez, Graciela Lorca

“…This a rapidly expanding area of research and development because they can be added to diets as a form of preventative health care. This 7-page fact sheet answers questions about the history and current research into probiotics and how to select probiotic products. …”
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The Master Hoof (Claw) Care Program: Summary Statistics From Three Years by Jan K. Shearer, S. R. Van Amstel, A. Gonzalez-Sagues, L. C. Shearer

“…The objective of this program was (and is) to train dairy health care technicians and others in proper methods of foot care and claw trimming. …”
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Economic and Clinical Impact of Stroke and Warfarin Use for Patients with Non-valvular Atrial Fibrillation by Li Wang, Elyse Fritschel, Onur Baser

“…Warfarin prescriptions did not significantly impact total health care costs, though caution is advised to minimize hemorrhagic events.…”
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Clinical and Economic Outcomes Associated With Use of Liposomal Bupivacaine Versus Standard of Care for Management of Postsurgical Pain in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Spine Surge... by Robert Tracy Ballock, John Seif, Ryan Goodwin, Jennifer H. Lin, Jessica Cirillo

“…These data suggest that treatment with LB might reduce hospital LOS and subsequently health-care costs, and additional cost savings outside the hospital room may factor into overall health-care cost savings. …”
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Community Caregivers’ Perspectives on Health IT Use for Children With Medical Complexity: Qualitative Interview Study by Farah Elkourdi, Onur Asan

“… BackgroundChildren with medical complexity represent a unique pediatric population requiring extensive health care needs and care coordination. Children with medical complexities have multiple significant chronic health problems that affect multiple organ systems and result in functional limitations and high health care needs or use. …”
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Nutritional knowledge and practices of low-income women during pregnancy: a qualitative study in two Oaxacan cities by Marian Marian, Ramona L. Pérez, Amanda C. McClain, Samantha Hurst, Elizabeth Reed, Kathryn M. Barker, Rebecka Lundgren

“…Results Five key themes emerged linked to individual-level characteristics and the multiple social identities related to the social support for nutritional knowledge and practices among low-income Oaxacan women during pregnancy: (1) Life experiences, sociodemographic, and health characteristics that influence nutritional practices and knowledge during pregnancy; (2) Female family members as a primary source of nutritional knowledge and food support; (3) Support from other members of women’s social networks; (4) Medical guidance for nutrition during pregnancy; and (5) Quality and gaps in the broader health care system and social services. These themes highlight how women’s own experiences and social identities and the different interpersonal and community-level environments, particularly those of mothers and grandmothers and health care providers, interact and shape women’s nutritional knowledge and practices, such as foods and nutritional supplements consumed, during pregnancy. …”
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Fostering transformative learning and whole patient care among teaching hospital staff through artistic creation: a qualitative study by Kang-Ju Chou, Ying-Yao Cheng, Wen Cheng, Hsueh-Hua Chuang, Chun-Teng Tsai, Hua-Chang Fang

“…In this model, transformative learning is employed to broaden health-care providers’ (HCPs) perspectives. To explore how artistic creation influences HCPs’ perceptions of the value of WPC, this study examined the content of artworks created by HCPs in teaching hospitals. …”
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The Relationship Between Mindset and Poverty Levels in Kisinga Sub-County Kasese District by Kambere, Roggers

“…Uganda should continue its investments in health care, but future investments should be geared toward improving the efficiency of existing public health-care systems. …”
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The Master Hoof (Claw) Care Program: Summary Statistics From Three Years by Jan K. Shearer, S. R. Van Amstel, A. Gonzalez-Sagues, L. C. Shearer

“…The objective of this program was (and is) to train dairy health care technicians and others in proper methods of foot care and claw trimming. …”
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The Art of Goodbye: Exploring Health Concerns by Lynda Spence

“…At other times, the family and health care providers are involved. This 6-page fact sheet, which is part of a series entitled The Art of Goodbye: End of Life Education series, explores health concerns and discusses aspects and types of care at the end of life. …”
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Breast Cancer: Making Sense of the Numbers by Martha C. Monroe, Barbara F. Shea, Linda B. Bobroff

“…Some breast cancer patients want to take an active role in understanding and choosing their treatment, and others prefer to leave decisions to their health care providers. This revised 5-page fact sheet, first in a 12-part series on breast cancer, provides information that will help persons who want to understand and be actively involved in treatment decisions. …”
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Breast Cancer: Making Sense of the Numbers by Martha C. Monroe, Barbara F. Shea, Linda B. Bobroff

“…Some breast cancer patients want to take an active role in understanding and choosing their treatment, and others prefer to leave decisions to their health care providers. This revised 5-page fact sheet, first in a 12-part series on breast cancer, provides information that will help persons who want to understand and be actively involved in treatment decisions. …”
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Smartphone-Based Care Platform Versus Traditional Care in Primary Knee Arthroplasty in the Unites States: Cost Analysis by Jess H Lonner, Ashwini Naidu-Helm, David Van Andel, Mike B Anderson, Richard Ditto, Roberta E Redfern, Jared Foran

“… AbstractCost savings were achieved with the use of a smartphone-based care management platform, considering several health care resources following knee arthroplasty procedures without negatively impacting clinical outcomes.…”
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Machine Learning for Precision Health Economics and Outcomes Research (P-HEOR): Conceptual Review of Applications and Next Steps by Yixi Chen, Viktor V Chirikov, Xiaocong L Marston, Jingang Yang, Haibo Qiu, Jianfeng Xie, Ning Sun, Chengming Gu, Peng Dong, Xin Gao

“…Precision health economics and outcomes research (P-HEOR) integrates economic and clinical value assessment by explicitly discovering distinct clinical and health care utilization phenotypes among patients. Through a conceptualized example, the objective of this review is to highlight the capabilities and limitations of machine learning (ML) applications to P-HEOR and to contextualize the potential opportunities and challenges for the wide adoption of ML for health economics. …”
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The Art of Goodbye: Why People Are Talking About the End of Life by Suzanna Smith, Lynda Spence

“…This 5-page fact sheet is the first publication in a series entitled The Art of Goodbye: End of Life Education series, and it covers changes in living and dying, preferences for the end of life, roles of substitute decision makers in health care, and communication. Written by Suzanna Smith and Lynda Spence, and published by the UF Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, October 2016.  …”
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The "turn" to spirituality by C. Kourie

“…Post-patriarchal and telluric, contemporary spirituality affects all areas of society, including the business world, education, health care, the arts, ecology, politics, religion and particularly the academy, where new programmes in spirituality are attracting a large number of students. …”
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