Click here to download the presentation Across the US, patients of color have a lower rate of flu vaccination than white patients. These disparities are consistent regardless of the overall flu vaccination rate, and with increased attention on the impact of health disparities due to COVID, multiple explanations are proposed for lower vaccination rates among…
Lu, E., Solovyeva, K., Hebert, Z., Kietzer, L., Griffiths, S., Eid Antoun, Z., Keeley, T., & Alfonso-Cristancho, R., (2021, September 5-8). Shared decision making in severe asthma therapy: Qualitative study of physician-patient communication [Poster]. European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress. Patient engagement in biologic treatment of severe asthma becomes a driving force after first starting…
COVID-19 has radically changed healthcare. Some of these changes are temporary workarounds. Some are here to stay. And some already were in place, with COVID accelerating the changes. All of the changes have had an impact on patient behavior: how they approach their conditions; talk about their conditions; and make decisions around their conditions. We…
Whitepaper When the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020, there was widespread concern about how fast an effective vaccine could be developed – if one could be developed at all. As we move into Spring 2021 with multiple authorized vaccines on hand, the conversation has changed: the challenge expressed by public health experts is not…
Whitepaper In the exam room, discussion of risks associated with COVID-19 are evolving as we learn more about the underlying characteristics of the virus and disease. Through the analysis of exam room conversations with specific discussion of COVID-19, Verilogue compared HCP-PT conversations collected early in the pandemic against more recent conversations, exploring how discussions of…
In the exam room, discussion of COVID-19-related risks are evolving as we learn more about the underlying characteristics of this virus and disease. Through the analysis of >1,400 exam room conversations with specific discussion of COVID-19, our research team has identified tactics that physicians are using to educate patients on personal states of risk (e.g.…
The concept of risk education and management has always been an important topic in the field of healthcare, and is particularly critical in the age of COVID-19. In the exam room, discussion of risk is evolving as we learn more about the underlying characteristics of this virus and disease, which provides opportunity to educate patients…
To provide these insights, Verilogue engaged in voice-enabled pulse surveys with healthcare professionals and analyzed 54 responses collected July 30 – August 3, 2020 Verilogue is chronicling the impact of COVID-19 across the care continuum, focusing on the shared experiences of healthcare providers and their patients. To further understand the impact of COVID-19 at the…
Over the past few weeks, Verilogue has been chronicling the impact of COVID-19 across the care continuum, with a focus on the perspectives of community and ER physicians to date. In addition to the healthcare provider perspective, we believe it is important to listen to the voices and concerns from another critical population: patients who…
In this Sound Insight Podcast, we invite you to listen to Jim Hickey (Vice President, Client Services) and Jeff Troy (Group Director, Client Services) describe the continued tightrope that physicians navigate in this pandemic, weighing the preference to ‘stay the course’ on existing treatments due to lack of routine monitoring and testing, against concerns about…