OBJECTIVES: To determine relationships between physical fitness and academic achievement
in diverse, urban public school children. METHODS: This cross‐sectional study used …

Low health literacy is associated with higher mortality, higher rates of hospitalization, and
poor self-management skills for chronic disease. Early, unplanned hospital reutilization after …

Parasite‐mediated selection is potentially of great importance in modulating genetic diversity.
Genetic variation for resistance, the fuel for natural selection, appears to be common in …

Depression affects approximately 15% of the US population, and is recognized as an important
risk factor for poor outcomes among patients with various illnesses. Automated health …

BACKGROUND Patient activation is linked to better health outcomes and lower rates of health
service utilization. The role of patient activation in the rate of hospital readmission within …

PURPOSE Despite concerted actions to streamline care transitions, the journey from hospital
to home remains hazardous for patients and caregivers. Remarkably little is known about …

Natural populations vary tremendously in their susceptibility to infectious disease agents.
The factors (environmental or genetic) that underlie this variation determine the impact of …

Background: The Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) program is a hospital-based initiative
shown to decrease hospital reutilization. We implemented the RED in 10 hospitals to study the …

The objective of this mixed methods study was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of
using a virtual world educational environment for interprofessional health professions …

Background: Hospitalized patients are frequently unprepared to care for themselves after
discharge often leading to unplanned hospital readmission. One strategy to reduce …