In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn researchers have looked at factors that might lead to gender disparities in emergency medicine (EM), and found that gender played a role in both the content and quality of feedback. In a study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers analyzed narrative comments for EM residents from EM attending physicians over a three-year period, across five EM training programs nationwide.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Electronic health records (EHR) data are often incomplete, creating a significant challenge for researchers, and data gaps may be unequally distributed across patient groups: People with less access to care, often people of color or with lower socioeconomic status, tend to have more incomplete EHRs. A new study from Penn LDI finds that predictive models trained using incomplete EHR data performed poorly for patients with lower access to care.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency has awarded grants to three community violence prevention and intervention programs across Penn Medicine: The School District of Philadelphia’s Safe Path to School Program, the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program, and the Prolonged Exposure to Address Community Violence (PEACE) Project.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Two prominent free-speech experts and Penn GSE professors, Sigal Ben-Porath and Jonathan Zimmerman, have each published new books that explore the current “cancel culture” phenomenon and how it impinges on students’ learning, American culture, and constructive discourse.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
New research by LDI senior fellow Courtney finds that immigrant workers who are naturalized U.S. citizens report less use of health care and greater barriers to treatment, and offers recommendations for how policymakers can improve the health of immigrants.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Customers are unhappy when their favorite retailers make it harder to earn rewards, as Starbucks, Dunkin’ and Best Buy have recently done. But firms have to walk a fine line between customer loyalty and profits, says Wharton’s Raghuram Iyengar.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The University of Pennsylvania is now home to the inaugural March of Dimes Research Center for Advancing Maternal Health Equity, making it a focal point for maternal health equity research and racial disparity solutions.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Data shows that unless the pattern of furnishing primary health care, particularly to underserved groups in both urban and rural areas, is drastically improved, these groups will suffer in inequitable and unnecessary ways. It is clear that the primary care workforce must be expanded and diversified.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
The Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative at Penn’s School of Nursing is partnering with Gaingels, an LGBTQIA+/Allies private investment syndicate, to provide their portfolio of companies access to Penn’s academic research to make an impact into the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ communities.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
The Fund for Health, a joint initiative of Penn Medicine and the Environmental, Social, and Governance Initiative at the Wharton School is backing Twentyeight Health, which uses its online platform to increase access for women in underserved communities to reproductive health care.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
