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76 Timely Endocrine Referral for Short Stature Children Born Small For Gestational AgeApproximately 10% of children born small for gestational age (SGA) fail to achieve catch-up growth by two years of age. These children will remain with short stature throughout life without effective medical intervention. Sound research exists demonstrating the optimal treatment initiation period to...Mulleneaux, Sherrily BrownAdvanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Infant, Small for Gestational Age; Referral and Consultation; Evidence-Based Practice; Growth Hormone Treatment; Short-Stature SGA
77 Tobacco Bans on Inpatient Mental Health SettingsTobacco is the only legal drug that kills many of its users when used exactly as directed by the manufacturers. Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death and disability in the world and there is approximately one death every six seconds caused by tobacco use and exposure to tobacco smoke...Thatcher, BrandonAdvanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Hospitals, Psychiatric; Community Mental Health Centers; Smoke-Free Policy; Inpatients; Tobacco Smoke Pollution; Validation Studies as Topic
78 Too Much Data, Not Enough Data: Providing Relevance to Care Connectivity Consortium Providers and Their PatientsThe Care Connectivity Consortium (CCC), a consortium of five leading U.S. healthcare organizations was recently formed to help promote electronic transfer of health information across the country. Electronic health information transfer has also become a mandate for "Meaningful Use" in a recent provi...Merkley, KathleenAdvanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Meaningful Use; Quality of Health Care; Electronic Health Records; Patient Identification Systems; Information Systems; Information Dissemination; Data Collection; Utah Health Information Network; Nursing Informatics
79 Tradeoffs Between User-Centered Design and System Functionality/ InteroperabilityThe question of usability versus functionality is one of the most important issues facing software developers and designers today. The reason for this is simple: in order for any system to achieve its full potential, it must first be accepted and used by its intended audience and user group. The sys...Smail, JessicaAdvanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; User-Centered Design; Information Science; Software Design; User-Computer Interface; Nursing Informatics
80 Understanding Insomnia in the College PopulationThe purpose of my project was to increase awareness among healthcare providers and students regarding the importance of sleep assessment and management at the University of Utah Student Health Center. Despite the fact that 50-70 million Americans suffer from sleep disturbances (Institute of Medicine...Williams, RachelAdvanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Sleep Disorders; Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders; Sleep Deprivation; Students; Stress, Psychological; Anxiety Disorders; Cohort Studies; Risk Factors; Quality of Life
81 Use of Information Technology to Improve Asthma Care in the Pediatric PopulationIn 1998, the Instituted of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America was asked to identify strategies for improving the quality of health care in the United States. This Committee identified the role of information technology (IT) as critical in creating a health care system ...Zhao, JingAdvanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Asthma; Quality of Health Care; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Disease Management; Decision Support Systems, Clinical; Electronic Health Records; Nursing Informatics
82 Using Bedside Ultrasound For Fluid Assessment and ResponsivenessBedside ultrasound is a tool being increasingly used among clinicians. Technological advancements of ultrasound systems have made them smaller and more portable with increased image resolution, making bedside ultrasound an available and affordable tool in the intensive care unit. However, acceptance...Vreeland, MichaelAdvanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Pilot Projects; Point-of-Care Systems; Ultrasonography; Echocardiography; Hemodynamics; Central Venous Pressure; Vena Cava, Inferior; Organism Hydration Status; Treatment Outcome
83 What are the Critical Success Factors for a Health Information Exchange?In our increasingly mobile society few patients see one doctor and one doctor only. They visit primary care providers, specialists, emergency rooms and urgent care clinics. All of these visits generate important healthcare information which would improve overall patient care if shared from provider ...Farmer, DeenaAdvanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; Electronic Health Records; Meaningful Use; Health Information Management; Information Dissemination; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; Health Information Exchanges
84 Wireless Vital Sign Monitoring for Prevention of Suicide in an Inpatient Psychiatric SettingSuicide is a serious problem in the United States. According to Hoyert and Xu (2012), suicide ranks as the 10th leading cause of death for all ages in the United States and ranks second for young adults age 15-24. Despite efforts made to prevent self-harm in an inpatient hospital setting, suicide co...Allen, ToddAdvanced Practice Nursing; Education, Nursing, Graduate; Inpatients; Suicide; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Hospitals, Psychiatric; Harm Reduction; Remote Sensing Technology; Monitoring, Physiologic
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