Publications by authors named "Gregory A Heinonen"
Article Synopsis
- The study explores how health care professionals and surrogates (family members) of patients with severe neurological injuries perceive the use of Cognitive Motor Dissociation (CMD) in making decisions about goals of care (GoC) and research involvement.
- Findings show that 93% of participants would consider research participation if CMD indicated potential for recovery, compared to just 58% if CMD was negative.
- It highlights that health care professionals are more likely to alter GoC based on CMD results compared to surrogates, with religious beliefs influencing how strongly participants might change their goals of care.
In unconscious appearing patients with acute brain injury, wilful brain activation to motor commands without behavioural signs of command following, known as cognitive motor dissociation (CMD), is associated with functional recovery. CMD can be detected by applying machine learning to EEG recorded during motor command presentation in behaviourally unresponsive patients. Identifying patients with CMD carries clinical implications for patient interactions, communication with families, and guidance of therapeutic decisions but underlying mechanisms of CMD remain unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUse of Champions Identified by Social Network Analysis to Reduce Health Care Worker Patient-Assist Injuries.
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf
November 2020
Background: Safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM) programs recommend having champions, but have not indicated how to identify them and have confined their role to peer-based activities, limiting their ability to influence control measures.
Methods: In a pilot program conducted at a community access hospital in Oregon, researchers applied social network analysis (SNA) of safety advice to identify champion candidates. Candidates were invited to complete mobility, communication, and quality improvement (QI) training modules to become champions.
Background: Most studies examining parental behaviors of parents of young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing (TD) children have taken place in free play settings and have primarily focused on examining social behaviors. Motor skill-based play settings, which are distinctly different from free play settings, have not been explicitly studied as it relates to parental behaviors in these environments.
Aims: The purpose of this study was to examine parental behaviors of parents of children with and without ASD in two distinctly different play settings.