Bradi B. Granger

Association of post‐discharge meal delivery with hospital readmissions among food‐insecure older adults

Eugenia McPeek Hinz, Abby Hoffman, Michael Pignone, Tara Kinard et autres

BACKGROUND: Older adults with food insecurity have higher readmission risk, but evidence on the impact of post-discharge meal delivery remains limited. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of adults aged ≥60 discharged home from a single academic health system between September …

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Making Value Visible Through Measurement: Creating Actionable Audits

Bradi B. Granger, Allison Fox, Mary Lindsay

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Lost to Follow‐Up in Pragmatic Trials With Remote Follow‐Up: Insights From CONNECT‐HF and TRANSFORM‐HF

Satoshi Shoji, Lisa A. Kaltenbach, Haolin Xu, Robert J. Mentz et autres

BACKGROUND: Pragmatic trials commonly use remote follow-up to reduce participant burden and costs. However, these approaches may increase the risk of lost to follow-up (LTFU). We identified patient- and site-level factors associated with LTFU in 2 large, pragmatic heart failure (HF) trials. …

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Implementation of a Digital Patient Activation Tool to Engage Patients With Heart Failure in Intensification of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapies

Stephanie G. Barnes, Robert J. Mentz, Julie Thompson, Jill R. Engel et autres

Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction treatment with quadruple therapy reduces hospitalizations and improves patient survival. Despite evidence-based recommendations to initiate and up-titrate guideline-directed medical therapy to target doses, a gap remains in the achievement of target doses of guideline-directed medical therapies. …

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Telephone Outreach and Skill‐Based Group Education Improves Blood Pressure in Patients at a Community Health Center

Caroline Metz, Perisa Ashar, Jada Allen, Camryn Johnson et autres

OBJECTIVES: This study aims to evaluate a dual approach to reduce blood pressure among patients at a Community Health Center in the Southeast through telephonic outreach and skill-based self-management classes. METHODS: A pre-post single cohort design was implemented over five months. Trained …

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Building Our Finance Muscle

Lori Armstrong, Pamela Hunt, Bradi B. Granger, Kelly Kester

Telephone Outreach Is Associated With Improved Blood Pressure in Patients at an Urban Community Health Center

Nishka A. Dalal, Elliot Yoon, Jada Allen, Perisa Ashar et autres

PURPOSE: Hypertension (HTN) disproportionately affects marginalized communities due to persistent healthcare disparities and socioeconomic barriers. Less than half of patients with HTN achieve blood pressure (BP) control, with Black Americans on antihypertensive medication experiencing lower rates of BP control (34.9%) compared to …

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Making Value Visible Through Measurement: Creating Actionable Measurement Maps for Nursing Care Processes and Outcomes

Bradi B. Granger

In a 2024 call to action for change in acute and critical care nursing, Martha Curley and colleagues emphasized the need to link the value of nursing care to visible, measurable outcomes.1 The call to action asked us to change the nature …

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Hidden Structure of Care Coordination in Heart Failure Care Transitions: A Mixed-Method Network Analysis of Clinical Notes

Sijia Wei, Eleanor S. McConnell, Kirsten Corazzini, James Moody et autres

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Using Innovative Software to Address the Puzzle of Sustainable Workforce Stability

Kelly Kester, Joseph Kelly, Mary Lindsay, Gregory Flynn et autres

AIM: The aim of this study was to describe the 6-month outcomes of a pilot study testing a web-based decision-making tool for nurse managers (NMs) to use in determining RN hiring needs, and to evaluate the effect on workforce stability and NM …

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Statistical Process Control Charts to Improve Health Care: Hypertension Case

Elliot Yoon, Anna Tharakan, Camryn Johnson, Bradi B. Granger

Established national standards for patient care safety and quality help hold health care systems accountable and ensure the delivery of consistent, impactful medical care across diverse clinical settings from acute care to ambulatory care, skilled nursing facilities, and home care.1–3 These standards …

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Longitudinal Evaluation of Implementation of AACN’s Healthy Work Environment Framework in an Intensive Care Unit

Philip Parker, Heather Pena, Jason R. Stokes, Jessica Seabrooks et autres

BACKGROUND: Bedside nurse turnover in the United States is 22.5%, representing a national challenge that has been attributed to poor work environments. Poor work environments result in decreased nurse satisfaction and retention as well as poor patient outcomes. Healthy work environments have …

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