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 […]
Data From the New Orleans Alcohol Use in HIV Study: High-Risk Alcohol Using People Living With HIV and Systemic Oxidative Stress or Inflammation - Public Health
Dr. Tekeda Ferguson, LSUHSC School of Public Health Assistant Professor, discusses how HIV infection is now largely a chronic condition as a result of the success of antiretroviral therapy in her new research study “Reduced Serum Osteocalcin in High-Risk Alcohol Using People Living With HIV Does not Correlate With Systemic Oxidative Stress or Inflammation: Data […]