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Trends in Firearm Injury Prevention Research Funding, Clinical Trials, and Publications in the US, 1985-2022.
Lin JC, Chang C, McCarthy MS, Baker-Butler A, Tong G, Ranney ML. Trends in Firearm Injury Prevention Research Funding, Clinical Trials, and Publications in the US, 1985-2022. JAMA Surg 2024 PMID: 38324281, DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2023.7461.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchUses of mHealth in Injury Prevention and Control: a Critical Review
Ranney M, Stettenbauer E, Delgado M, Yao K, Orchowski L. Uses of mHealth in Injury Prevention and Control: a Critical Review. Current Epidemiology Reports 2022, 9: 273-281. PMID: 36404873, PMCID: PMC9644389, DOI: 10.1007/s40471-022-00312-w.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCharacterizing cyber harms from digital health
Perakslis E, Ranney M, Goldsack J. Characterizing cyber harms from digital health. Nature Medicine 2023, 29: 528-531. PMID: 36759672, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-022-02167-6.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Skills to Enhance Positivity in adolescents at risk for suicide: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Yen S, Suazo N, Doerr J, Macrynikola N, Villarreal L, Sodano S, O’Brien K, Wolff J, Breault C, Gibb B, Elwy R, Kahler C, Ranney M, Jones R, Spirito A. Skills to Enhance Positivity in adolescents at risk for suicide: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. PLOS ONE 2023, 18: e0287285. PMID: 37862324, PMCID: PMC10588868, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287285.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchLeveraging a Learning Collaborative Model to Develop and Pilot Quality Measures to Improve Opioid Prescribing in the Emergency Department
Hawk K, Weiner S, Rothenberg C, Bernstein E, D'Onofrio G, Herring A, Hoppe J, Ketcham E, LaPietra A, Nelson L, Perrone J, Ranney M, Samuels E, Strayer R, Sharma D, Goyal P, Schuur J, Venkatesh A. Leveraging a Learning Collaborative Model to Develop and Pilot Quality Measures to Improve Opioid Prescribing in the Emergency Department. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2023, 83: 225-234. PMID: 37831040, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2023.08.490.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAtraumatic back painCommunity EDED visitsBack painOpioid prescribing practicesFirst-line treatmentEmergency department patientsOpioid use disorderQuality improvement projectEvidence-based resourcesOpioid administrationOpioid prescriptionsDental painSafe analgesiaDepartment patientsOpioid pillsPrescribing practicesEmergency departmentAmerican CollegeUse disordersMedication safety educationPainOpioidsImprovement projectVisitsBehavioral Health Decision Support Systems and User Interface Design in the Emergency Department
Jones N, Song S, Thomasian N, Samuels E, Ranney M. Behavioral Health Decision Support Systems and User Interface Design in the Emergency Department. Applied Clinical Informatics 2023, 14: 705-713. PMID: 37673096, PMCID: PMC10482498, DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-1771395.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSingle academic health systemHigh-risk populationAcademic health systemAdult emergency physiciansPhysicians' prior experienceUniversity hospital systemClinical decision support systemAdult EDED physiciansPatient's likelihoodEmergency departmentPhysician familiarityEmergency physiciansMost physiciansED recidivismParticular patientPhysician workflowHealth systemPhysiciansHospital systemAlert contentSemistructured interviewsCareQualitative studyHealth decision support systemEmergency medicine physician workforce attrition differences by age and gender
Gettel C, Courtney D, Agrawal P, Madsen T, Rothenberg C, Mills A, Lall M, Keim S, Kraus C, Ranney M, Venkatesh A. Emergency medicine physician workforce attrition differences by age and gender. Academic Emergency Medicine 2023, 30: 1092-1100. PMID: 37313983, PMCID: PMC10973949, DOI: 10.1111/acem.14764.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFemale emergency physiciansEmergency physiciansMedian ageMultivariate logistic regression modelMale emergency physiciansResidency graduationRepeated cross-sectional analysisCharacteristics of physiciansWorkforce attritionCross-sectional analysisLogistic regression modelsStudy time frameDate of birthPrimary outcomeFemale genderMale physiciansClinical practiceFemale physiciansClinical servicesPhysiciansEmergency medicineAgeNumber of yearsRecent dataWorkforce concernsThe effect of digital health interventions on postpartum depression or anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Lewkowitz A, Whelan A, Ayala N, Hardi A, Stoll C, Battle C, Tuuli M, Ranney M, Miller E. The effect of digital health interventions on postpartum depression or anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. American Journal Of Obstetrics And Gynecology 2023, 230: 12-43. PMID: 37330123, PMCID: PMC10721728, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2023.06.028.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchBystander intervention to prevent firearm injury: A qualitative study of 4‐H shooting sports participants
Trinka T, Oesterle D, Silverman A, Vriniotis M, Orchowski L, Beidas R, Betz M, Hudson C, Kesner T, Ranney M. Bystander intervention to prevent firearm injury: A qualitative study of 4‐H shooting sports participants. Journal Of Community Psychology 2023, 51: 2652-2666. PMID: 37294273, PMCID: PMC10644270, DOI: 10.1002/jcop.23069.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchFirearm injuries and death: A United States epidemic with public health solutions
Mueller K, Lovelady N, Ranney M. Firearm injuries and death: A United States epidemic with public health solutions. PLOS Global Public Health 2023, 3: e0001913. PMID: 37224135, PMCID: PMC10208504, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001913.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
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- August 01, 2024Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies
Dr. Megan Ranney, Dean, Yale School of Public Health: We have the public health tools to tackle America’s epidemic of firearm injuries and deaths.
- July 10, 2024Source: Axios
Health officials pitch anonymous bird flu testing
- July 08, 2024
Dean Ranney Joins Other Public Health Thought Leaders at Aspen Ideas: Health Festival
- July 08, 2024Source: Daily Montanan
Why public health experts have limited insight into stopping gun violence in America