Browsing by Author "Weitzman, Elissa"
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Advancing Surveillance of Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease—A Path Forward
Weitzman, Elissa R.; Waheed, Nadia (University of Illinois at Chicago Library, 2013)Objective: To characterize current and future approaches to surveillance of chronic and non-communicable diseases and establish the agenda for both methodological and condition-specific progress. Introduction: Major global ... -
Family Health History Reporting is Sensitive to Small Changes in Wording
Conway-Pearson, Liam S.; Christensen, Kurt D.; Savage, Sarah K.; Huntington, Noelle L.; Weitzman, Elissa R.; Ziniel, Sonja I.; Bacon, Phoebe; Cacioppo, Cara N.; Green, Robert C.; Holm, Ingrid A. (2016)Purpose Family health history is often collected through single-item queries that ask patients whether or not their family members are affected by certain conditions. The specific wording of these queries may affect what ... -
A Screening Tool for Assessing Alcohol Use Risk among Medically Vulnerable Youth
Levy, Sharon; Dedeoglu, Fatma; Gaffin, Jonathan M.; Garvey, Katharine C.; Harstad, Elizabeth; MacGinnitie, Andrew; Rufo, Paul A.; Huang, Qian; Ziemnik, Rosemary E.; Wisk, Lauren E.; Weitzman, Elissa R. (Public Library of Science, 2016)Background: In an effort to reduce barriers to screening for alcohol use in pediatric primary care, the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA) developed a two-question Youth Alcohol Screening Tool derived ... -
Sharing Data for Public Health Research by Members of an International Online Diabetes Social Network
Weitzman, Elissa R.; Adida, Ben; Kelemen, Skyler; Mandl, Kenneth David (Public Library of Science, 2011)Background: Surveillance and response to diabetes may be accelerated through engaging online diabetes social networks (SNs) in consented research. We tested the willingness of an online diabetes community to share data for ... -
Surveillance of an Online Social Network to Assess Population-level Diabetes Health Status and Healthcare Quality
Weitzman, Elissa R.; Kelemen, Skyler Ellis; Mandl, Kenneth David (University of Illinois at Chicago Library, 2011)Objective: Test a novel health monitoring approach by engaging an international online diabetes social network (SN) in consented health surveillance. Methods: Collection of structured self-reports about preventive and ... -
Willingness to share personal health record data for care improvement and public health: A survey of experienced personal health record users
Weitzman, Elissa R.; Kelemen, Skyler; Kaci, Liljana; Mandl, Kenneth David (BioMed Central, 2012)Background: Data stored in personally controlled health records (PCHRs) may hold value for clinicians and public health entities, if patients and their families will share them. We sought to characterize consumer willingness ...