“The Transparency Revolution: Inside Transperra’s Mission to Fix Healthcare” — Southern Medicine Podcast is Now Available

In this episode of the “Southern Medicine Podcast”, J.P. Barta, CEO of Legacy Benefits Group, and Randy Glick, Executive Director of SMA, explore how Transperra is reimagining healthcare delivery in a system that has grown increasingly complex, costly, and opaque.

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Original Article

How Do Healthcare Executives Understand and Make Decisions about Spiritual Care Provision?

Objectives: This pilot study explores how healthcare leaders understand spiritual care and how that understanding informs staffing and resource decisions. Methods: This study is based on interviews with 11 healthcare leaders, representing 18 hospitals in 9 systems, conducted between August 2019 and February 2020. Results: Leaders see the value of…

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Waiting in the Accident and Emergency Department: Exploring Problematic Experiences

Objectives: To investigate the relation between perceived waiting times and patients’ overall ratings of accident and emergency departments (A&Es) and to explore which patients view waiting times as problematic. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was held in 21 A&Es in the Netherlands. From each A&E, a random sample of patients was…

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Review Article

CME Article: Cross-Cultural Barriers to Health Care

Culturally sensitive health care represents a real ethical and practical need in a Western healthcare system increasingly serving a multiethnic society. This review focuses on cross-cultural barriers to health care and incongruent aspects from a cultural perspective in the provision of health care. To overcome difficulties in culturally dissimilar interactions…

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Factors Associated with Delayed Initiation of HIV Medical Care Among Infected Persons Attending a Southern HIV/AIDS Clinic

Background: Despite the proven benefits conferred by early human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diagnosis and presentation to care, delays in HIV medical care are common; these delays are not fully understood, especially in the southern United States. Methods: We evaluated the extent of, and characteristics associated with, delayed presentation to HIV…

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