Last data update: Sep 23, 2024. (Total: 47723 publications since 2009)
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Beyond content leadership development through a journal club
Kattan JA , Apostolou A , Al-Samarrai T , El Bcheraoui C , Kay MK , Khaokham CB , Pillai P , Sapkota S , Jani AA , Koo D , Taylor WC . Am J Prev Med 2014 47 S301-S305 CDC designed its Health Systems Integration Program to prepare leaders to function-at the interface of public health and health care. Specific Health Systems Integration Program competencies in the areas of communication, analysis and assessment, and health systems were developed to nurture evidence-based decision-making and leadership skills crucial for future public health leaders. The program therefore designed an innovative journal club as part of its competency-based curriculum not only to meet the standard goals for a journal club critical reading, interpretation, and acquiring content knowledge but also to foster leadership development. This report describes the Health Systems Integration Program journal club format, its implementation, challenges, and key elements of success. Other programs using a journal club model as a learning format might consider using the Health Systems Integration Program's innovative approach that focuses on leadership development. |
2009 pandemic influenza A vaccination of pregnant women-King County, Washington State, 2009-2010
Kay MK , Koelemay KG , Kwan-Gett TS , Cadwell BL , Duchin JS . Am J Public Health 2012 102 Suppl 3 S368-74 OBJECTIVES: Our objectives were to estimate 2009 pandemic influenza A (pH1N1) vaccination coverage among pregnant women and identify associated factors. METHODS: We distributed a multimodal survey to 5341 women who gave birth between November 1, 2009, and January 31, 2010, identified by hospitals in King County, Washington State, with maternity services (n = 11). RESULTS: Of 4205 respondents, 3233 (76.9%) reported that they had received pH1N1 vaccine during pregnancy or within 2 weeks after delivery. Women whose prenatal care provider recommended vaccine had a higher vaccination prevalence than women whose provider did not (81.5% vs 29.6%; adjusted prevalence ratio = 2.1; 95% confidence interval = 1.72, 2.58). Vaccination prevalence was lower among women who had received prenatal care from a midwife only compared with women who had received care from other providers (62.9% vs 78.8%; adjusted prevalence ratio = 0.89; 95% confidence interval = 0.83, 0.96). CONCLUSIONS: Among pregnant women in King County, pH1N1 vaccination coverage was high. To improve coverage during nonpandemic seasons, influenza vaccine should be recommended routinely by prenatal care providers and vaccination provided where prenatal care is received. Barriers to midwives providing vaccination recommendations to patients should be explored. |
Vibrio mimicus infection associated with crayfish consumption, Spokane, Washington, 2010
Kay MK , Cartwright EJ , Maceachern D , McCullough J , Barzilay E , Mintz E , Duchin JS , MacDonald K , Turnsek M , Tarr C , Talkington D , Newton A , Marfin AA . J Food Prot 2012 75 (4) 762-4 We report a cluster of severe diarrheal disease caused by Vibrio mimicus infection among four persons who had consumed leftover crayfish the day after a private crayfish boil. Gastrointestinal illness caused by Vibrio mimicus has not been reported previously in Washington State. Three cases were laboratory confirmed by stool culture; using PCR, isolates were found to have ctx genes that encode cholera toxin (CT). Two of the cases were hospitalized under intensive care with a cholera-like illness. The illnesses were most likely caused by cross-contamination of cooked crayfish with uncooked crayfish; however, V. mimicus was not isolated nor were CT genes detected by PCR in leftover samples of frozen crayfish. Clinicians should be aware that V. mimicus can produce CT and that V. mimicus infection can cause severe illness. |
Tattoo-associated Mycobacterium haemophilum skin infection in immunocompetent adult, 2009
Kay MK , Perti TR , Duchin JS . Emerg Infect Dis 2011 17 (9) 1734-6 After a laboratory-confirmed case of Mycobacterium haemophilum skin infection in a recently tattooed immunocompetent adult was reported, we investigated to identify the infection source and additional cases. We found 1 laboratory-confirmed and 1 suspected case among immunocompetent adults who had been tattooed at the same parlor. |
Toscana virus infection in American traveler returning from Sicily, 2009
Kay MK , Gibney KB , Riedo FX , Kosoy OL , Lanciotti RS , Lambert AJ . Emerg Infect Dis 2010 16 (9) 1498-500 To the Editor: Since the discovery of Toscana virus (TOSV) in 1971 in Tuscany (1), sandfly-borne TOSV has become recognized as a leading cause of acute meningitis in central Italy during the summer (2). France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Cyprus have also reported cases of TOSV infection (2). Although TOSV has been detected in sandflies in Sicily (3), we are not aware of any historically documented human infection with TOSV in this southernmost region of Italy. |
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