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January 13, 2020

Financial Distress and Bankruptcy Prediction in Acute Care Hospitals - Public Health

Dr. Dean Smith, LSUHSC School of Public Health, Professor in Health Policy & Systems Management and SPH Dean, has jointly published a new research study with the purpose of examining and comparing the accuracy of three financial distress prediction models and their ability to predict bankruptcy for US acute care hospitals. The article titled, “Financial […]

November 12, 2019

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, […]

November 12, 2019

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 […]

October 18, 2019

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 […]