Hospital staffing patterns and safety culture perceptions: The mediating role of perceived teamwork and perceived handoffs - Public Health
Soumya Upadhyay Robert Weech-Maldonado Christy H. Lemak Amber L. Stephenson Dean G. Smith As hospitals are under increasing pressure to improve quality and safety, safety culture has become a focal issue for high-risk organizations, including hospitals. Prior research has examined how structural characteristics directly impact safety culture. However, and based on Donabedian’s structure–process–outcome quality model, […]
Study Shows Biomarker Accurately Diagnoses Deadly Infant Disease - Public Health
Dr. Zhide Fang worked with a team of researchers from LSUHSC to determine a new noninvasive predictive #biomarker for necrotizing enterocolitis, a deadly intestinal disease found in newborns. @LSUPublicHealth A diagnostic study of 136 premature infants found that a protein involved in managing harmful bacteria in the human intestine is a reliable biomarker for the […]
Alcohol HIV/AIDS Research Poster Presentations 2019 - Public Health
The 2019 National Hispanic Science Network Conference gave the opportunity to our LSUHSC SoPH Students and Faculty to present their Posters this past October 9 – 11, 2019. Dr. Tekeda Ferguson, faculty member and Comprehensive Alcohol HIV/AIDS Research Center Investigator, and epidemiology doctoral student, Erika Rosen, MPH presented work from multiple alcohol projects. Reduced Alcohol […]
Invitation: 2019 John Rock Visiting Scholar Presentation by Dr. Francine Laden
Everyone is invited to attend this year’s School of Public Health John Rock Scholar presentation, “Environmental Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases and Interactions with Social Determinants of Health” by Dr. Francine Laden. This presentation is open to the School of Public Health & Health Sciences Center and is scheduled to be held Thursday, October 17th, 12:00p. For more details visit https://sph.lsuhsc.edu/invitation-2019-john-rock-visiting-scholar-formal-presentation-to-sph-hsc-thursday-october-17-2019/?preview_id=5527&preview_nonce=cf5992ed3e&post_format=standard&_thumbnail_id=5528&preview=true