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| Karin V RhodesSummaryAffiliation: University of Pennsylvania Country: USA Publications
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Child injury risks are close to home: parent psychosocial factors associated with child safetyKarin V Rhodes
Division of Health Policy Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3815 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Matern Child Health J 11:269-75. 2007..In an urban pediatric Emergency Department, we examined the relationship between parental depression, social support, and domestic conflict and child safety behaviors...
Referral without access: for psychiatric services, wait for the beepKarin V Rhodes
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, and the School of Social Policy and Practice, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 54:272-8. 2009..We examine access to care for acute depression by insurance status compared to access for acute medical conditions in 9 metropolitan areas in the United States...- The future of emergency medicine public health researchKarin V Rhodes
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Emerg Med Clin North Am 24:1053-73. 2006..This article also suggests ways to advance policy-relevant research on systems of health and social welfare that impact the health of the public... 
Intimate partner violence and comorbid mental health conditions among urban male patientsKarin V Rhodes
Department of Emergency Medicine and The School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19014, USA
Ann Fam Med 7:47-55. 2009..We wanted to explore the associations between intimate partner violence (IPV) and comorbid health conditions, which have received little attention in male patients...- Characterizing emergency department discussions about depressionKarin V Rhodes
Division of Health Care Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:908-11. 2007..The reality of emergency health care in the United States today requires new approaches to mental health in the emergency department (ED). Major depression is a disabling condition that disproportionately affects women... - "You're not a victim of domestic violence, are you?" Provider patient communication about domestic violenceKarin V Rhodes
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Ann Intern Med 147:620-7. 2007..Women who are victims of domestic violence frequently seek care in an emergency department. However, it is challenging to hold sensitive conversations in this environment... - Emergency care of urban women with sexually transmitted infections: time to address deficienciesKarin V Rhodes
Division of Emergency Policy Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Sex Transm Dis 36:51-7. 2009..Patient education upon diagnosis of a sexually transmitted infection (STI) may effect changes in high-risk sexual behavior... - Intimate partner violence identification and response: time for a change in strategyKarin V Rhodes
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:894-9. 2011..While victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) present to health care settings for a variety of complaints; rates and predictors of case identification and intervention are unknown... - Tobacco control interventions in the emergency department: a joint statement of emergency medicine organizationsSteven L Bernstein
Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
Ann Emerg Med 48:e417-26. 2006..ED-based tobacco control would allow the specialty to help fulfill the Healthy People 2010 mandate to reduce the prevalence of smoking among US citizens... - ED crowding is associated with variable perceptions of care compromiseJesse M Pines
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:1176-81. 2007..The authors measured the association between emergency department (ED) crowding and patient and provider perceptions about whether patient care was compromised... - Emergency department-based tobacco interventions improve patient satisfactionSteven L Bernstein
Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
J Emerg Med 38:e35-40. 2010..To determine whether receipt of smoking cessation counseling affects satisfaction scores in adult emergency department (ED) smokers... - Intimate partner violence and mental health symptoms in African American female ED patientsDebra Houry
Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Emerg Med 24:444-50. 2006..Intimate partner violence (IPV) victims often seek care in the ED, whether for an injury from abuse or other sequelae such as mental health symptoms... - Does screening in the emergency department hurt or help victims of intimate partner violence?Debra Houry
Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Ann Emerg Med 51:433-42, 442.e1-7. 2008.... - Limitations in access to dental and medical specialty care for publicly insured childrenKarin V Rhodes
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
LDI Issue Brief 16:1-4. 2011..This Issue Brief summarizes research that directly measures the willingness of dental and medical providers to see publicly-insured children, using research assistants posing as mothers calling for an urgent appointment for their child... - Emergency department patient preferences for boarding locations when hospitals are at full capacityChad Garson
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 51:9-12, 12.e1-3. 2008..One alternative is to board admitted patients in inpatient hallways. We assess ED patient preferences for boarding location... - Effect of household children on adult ED smokers' motivation to quitAngela M Mills
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 4283, USA
Am J Emerg Med 26:757-62. 2008..We hypothesized adult parenting smokers in the emergency department (ED) have a higher interest in quitting and may be more amenable to tobacco cessation counseling than smokers without children... - Insurance status and access to urgent ambulatory care follow-up appointmentsBrent R Asplin
Department of Emergency Medicine, Regions Hospital and HealthPartners Research Foundation, St Paul, Minn 55101, USA
JAMA 294:1248-54. 2005..There is growing pressure to avoid hospitalizing emergency department patients who can be treated safely as outpatients, but this strategy depends on timely access to follow-up care... - Academic medical centers and equity in specialty care access for childrenJoanna Bisgaier
School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 166:304-10. 2012..Academic medical centers are safety-net providers of specialty medical care and it is unknown whether equitable access is afforded by AMCs across insurance conditions... - Cumulative adverse financial circumstances: associations with patient health status and behaviorsJoanna Bisgaier
School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Health Soc Work 36:129-37. 2011..This underscores the imperative for hospital-based social workers to design models of routine social health risk screening and system interventions that address patient financial well-being in the ED... - Tobacco control interventions in the emergency department: a joint statement of emergency medicine organizationsSteven L Bernstein
Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
J Emerg Nurs 32:370-81. 2006..ED-based tobacco control would allow the specialty to help fulfill the Healthy People 2010 mandate to reduce the prevalence of smoking among US citizens... - Study designs and evaluation models for emergency department public health researchKerry B Broderick
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:1124-31. 2009..Public health investigators are poised to make substantial contributions to this important area of research, but this will only be accomplished by employing sound research methodology in the context of rigorous program evaluation... - Auditing access to specialty care for children with public insuranceJoanna Bisgaier
School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
N Engl J Med 364:2324-33. 2011..We measured children's access to outpatient specialty care to identify disparities in providers' acceptance of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) versus private insurance... - Nonprice barriers to ambulatory care after an emergency department visitTeri L Vieth
Department of Emergency Medicine, Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 51:607-13. 2008..Availability of timely follow-up care is essential in emergency medicine. We describe nonprice barriers to care experienced by callers reporting to be emergency department (ED) patients in need of follow-up care... - "Sign right here and you're good to go": a content analysis of audiotaped emergency department discharge instructionsAnita Vashi
Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Ann Emerg Med 57:315-322.e1. 2011..The goal of this study is to quantitatively and qualitatively assess the quality and content of verbal discharge instructions at 2 emergency departments (EDs)... - Disparities in child access to emergency care for acute oral injuryJoanna Bisgaier
School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Pediatrics 127:e1428-35. 2011..We examined the impact of insurance status on dental practices' willingness to schedule an appointment for a child with a symptomatic fractured permanent front tooth... - Lowering the threshold for discussions of domestic violence: a randomized controlled trial of computer screeningKarin V Rhodes
Department of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine, University of Chicago, Ill, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:1107-14. 2006..Women experiencing domestic violence (DV) frequent health care settings, but DV is rarely identified... - Reports of police calls for service as a risk indicator for intimate partner violenceMELISSA E DICHTER
School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:83-6. 2009..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of asking female emergency department (ED) patients about police calls for service as a possible indicator of intimate partner violence (IPV)... - A conceptual model of emergency department crowdingBrent R Asplin
Department of Emergency Medicine, Regions Hospital and HealthPartners Research Foundation, and University of Minnesota Medical School, St Paul and Minneapolis, MN 55101, USA
Ann Emerg Med 42:173-80. 2003..The goal of the conceptual model is to provide a practical framework on which an organized research, policy, and operations management agenda can be based to alleviate ED crowding... - Simulated patient studies: an ethical analysisKarin V Rhodes
Perelman School of Medicine and School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA
Milbank Q 90:706-24. 2012..But the study was shelved because of public controversy over "government spying" on doctors. Opponents of the study also raised ethical concerns about the use of deception with human subjects without soliciting their informed consent... - Patient-centered integrated networks of emergency care: consensus-based recommendations and future research prioritiesPrasanthi Govindarajan
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:1322-9. 2010..The set of research priorities based on these recommendations was created to promote research and advance knowledge in this dimension of clinical care... - Risk for cost-related medication nonadherence among emergency department patientsMaryann Mazer
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:267-72. 2011.... - Resuscitating the physician-patient relationship: emergency department communication in an academic medical centerKarin V Rhodes
Health Services Research Group, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Ann Emerg Med 44:262-7. 2004..We characterize communication in an urban, academic medical center emergency department (ED) with regard to the timing and nature of the medical history survey and physical examination and discharge instructions... - "Should I give you my smoking lecture now or later?" Characterizing emergency physician smoking discussions and cessation counselingNatalie I Vokes
Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 48:406-14, 414.e1-7. 2006..We determine frequency and manner in which emergency physicians address smoking with their patients... - Missed opportunities: emergency department visits by police-identified victims of intimate partner violenceCatherine L Kothari
Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Ann Emerg Med 47:190-9. 2006..CONCLUSION: Police-identified intimate partner violence victims utilize emergency care at extremely high rates, usually without identification or referral to intimate partner violence resources... - The effect of crowding on access and quality in an academic EDTeri L Vieth
Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Am J Emerg Med 24:787-94. 2006..Emergency department crowding has the potential to cause undesirable outcomes. We evaluated ED access and provider and patient assessments of quality... - "Between me and the computer": increased detection of intimate partner violence using a computer questionnaireKarin V Rhodes
Department of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Ann Emerg Med 40:476-84. 2002..We hypothesized that screening for IPV during computer-based health-risk assessment would be acceptable to patients and improve detection... - Designing a research agenda to improve the quality of emergency careDavid J Magid
Clinical Research Unit, Colorado Permanente Medical Group, Denver, CO 80237 8066, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:1124-30. 2002..Research to improve the quality of emergency care can benefit from a more systematic consideration of the domains of quality and the research steps necessary to generate evidence and inform quality improvement efforts in practice... - The emergency department as usual source of medical care: estimates from the 1998 National Health Interview SurveyCraig A Walls
Department of Community Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:1140-5. 2002..Poverty, lack of insurance, younger age, male gender, and minority race or ethnicity predicted identifying the ED as the usual source of care... - Interventions for intimate partner violence against women: clinical applicationsKarin V Rhodes
Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC 5068, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
JAMA 289:601-5. 2003..Suggestions for care are based on guidelines and evidence where available. Resources to assist physicians with referral to appropriate services also are provided... - Stages of change as a correlate of mental health symptoms in abused, low-income African American womenTiffany A Edwards
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
J Clin Psychol 62:1531-43. 2006..These findings contribute to the growing body of literature supporting the TM as applied to IPV. Results are discussed in terms of applicability to intervention design... - Mood disorders in the emergency department: the challenge of linking patients to appropriate servicesKarin V Rhodes
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 30:1-3. 2008 - Differences in female and male victims and perpetrators of partner violence with respect to WEB scoresDebra Houry
Emory University, USA
J Interpers Violence 23:1041-55. 2008..Depressive symptoms, symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, African American race, and IPV victimization were independently associated with higher WEB scores...
Research Grants
- An RCT of Brief Intervention for Problem Drinking and Partner ViolenceKarin V Rhodes; Fiscal Year: 2010..To identify the impact of assessment alone, we will include a no-contact control group assessed only at 3 months. All groups will receive standard written referrals. ..