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Papers by Tamala Bradham
Perspectives on Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood, 2013
Perspectives on Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood, 2011
Language, speech, and hearing services in schools, Jan 9, 2018
The purpose of the Listening and Spoken Language Data Repository (LSL-DR) was to address a critic... more The purpose of the Listening and Spoken Language Data Repository (LSL-DR) was to address a critical need for a systemwide outcome data-monitoring program for the development of listening and spoken language skills in highly specialized educational programs for children with hearing loss highlighted in Goal 3b of the 2007 Joint Committee on Infant Hearing position statement supplement. The LSL-DR is a multicenter, international data repository for recording and tracking the demographics and longitudinal outcomes achieved by children who have hearing loss who are enrolled in private, specialized programs focused on supporting listening and spoken language development. Since 2010, annual speech-language-hearing outcomes have been prospectively obtained by qualified clinicians and teachers across 48 programs in 4 countries. The LSL-DR has been successfully implemented, bringing together the data collection efforts of these programs to create a large and diverse data repository of 5,748 ...
Co-Enrollment in Deaf Education, 2019
This chapter chronicles the 70-year history of the Tucker Maxon School in Portland, Oregon, as a ... more This chapter chronicles the 70-year history of the Tucker Maxon School in Portland, Oregon, as a reflection of the evolution of the field of oral deaf education, including advances in hearing technology, as well as legal and social changes, with a focus on the school’s decision to co-enroll students with hearing loss with their typically hearing peers beginning in the early 1980s and more formally in 2002. As of 2018, more than 65% of the school’s students have typical hearing, creating a mainstream environment for their deaf and hard-of-hearing peers. While a minority of students at the school have hearing loss, Tucker Maxon provides many supports for these students to help them achieve their full potential, including on-site audiology, speech therapy, and teachers of the deaf.
As audiologists, we learn about anatomy, physiology, psychoacoustics, pathologies, technologies, ... more As audiologists, we learn about anatomy, physiology, psychoacoustics, pathologies, technologies, and interventions. We are experts in assessing hearing sensitivity, diagnosing hearing loss, and providing audiological (re)habilitation with technologies and counseling.
According to my dusty hardcover Webster's dictionary, a family is defined as: All the people ... more According to my dusty hardcover Webster's dictionary, a family is defined as: All the people living in the same house; household, 2) a social unit consisting of parents and the children they rear…” (Neufeldt, V, 1988).
The American journal of emergency medicine, Jan 7, 2017
Emergency department (ED) crowding is associated with patient safety concerns, increased patients... more Emergency department (ED) crowding is associated with patient safety concerns, increased patients left without being seen (LWBS), low patient satisfaction, and lost ED revenue. The objective was to measure the impact of a revised triage process on ED throughput. This study took place at an urban, university-affiliated, adult ED with an annual census of 70,000 and admission rate of 34%. The revised triage approach included: identifying eligible patients at triage based on complaint, comorbidities, and illness acuity; and reallocating a nurse practitioner (NP) into our triage area. We trialed the intervention from 1100-2300 on weekdays from January 13-26, 2016. Adult patients who were not likely to require intensive evaluations were eligible. Primary outcomes were throughput measures including: time to provider, ED length of stay (LOS), and LWBS. Pre- and post-intervention metrics were compared using the Mann-Whitney U test, given the non-normal distribution of the metrics. The NP eva...
American Journal of Public Health
To determine whether privately insured female rape victims were billed for charges associated wit... more To determine whether privately insured female rape victims were billed for charges associated with a specific rape in the United States. We examined 2013 de-identified patient data from Truven Analytics Health MarketScan database for an assault that occurred by using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, code E960.1. Analysis of insurance providers' payment patterns for 1355 incident events to female victims aged between 16 and 61 years revealed that victims remit, on average, 14% or 948oftherapecost,whereasinsuranceproviderspay86948 of the rape cost, whereas insurance providers pay 86% or 948oftherapecost,whereasinsuranceproviderspay865789 of the total cost. Hospital billing procedures for privately insured victims of rape across the United States are not separate from billing procedures for privately insured nonrape patients. This standardized procedure leads hospitals to bill victims directly for services not paid under the victims' insurance policy. Public Health Implications. The Violence Against Women Act (passed in 1994, reauthorized in 2000, 2005, and 2013) must be amended to mandate that all costs incurred because of rape are not passed on to the victim.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of South Carolina, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (leaves ... more Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of South Carolina, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-99). Microfilm.
Perspectives on Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood, 2013
Perspectives on Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood, 2011
Language, speech, and hearing services in schools, Jan 9, 2018
The purpose of the Listening and Spoken Language Data Repository (LSL-DR) was to address a critic... more The purpose of the Listening and Spoken Language Data Repository (LSL-DR) was to address a critical need for a systemwide outcome data-monitoring program for the development of listening and spoken language skills in highly specialized educational programs for children with hearing loss highlighted in Goal 3b of the 2007 Joint Committee on Infant Hearing position statement supplement. The LSL-DR is a multicenter, international data repository for recording and tracking the demographics and longitudinal outcomes achieved by children who have hearing loss who are enrolled in private, specialized programs focused on supporting listening and spoken language development. Since 2010, annual speech-language-hearing outcomes have been prospectively obtained by qualified clinicians and teachers across 48 programs in 4 countries. The LSL-DR has been successfully implemented, bringing together the data collection efforts of these programs to create a large and diverse data repository of 5,748 ...
Co-Enrollment in Deaf Education, 2019
This chapter chronicles the 70-year history of the Tucker Maxon School in Portland, Oregon, as a ... more This chapter chronicles the 70-year history of the Tucker Maxon School in Portland, Oregon, as a reflection of the evolution of the field of oral deaf education, including advances in hearing technology, as well as legal and social changes, with a focus on the school’s decision to co-enroll students with hearing loss with their typically hearing peers beginning in the early 1980s and more formally in 2002. As of 2018, more than 65% of the school’s students have typical hearing, creating a mainstream environment for their deaf and hard-of-hearing peers. While a minority of students at the school have hearing loss, Tucker Maxon provides many supports for these students to help them achieve their full potential, including on-site audiology, speech therapy, and teachers of the deaf.
As audiologists, we learn about anatomy, physiology, psychoacoustics, pathologies, technologies, ... more As audiologists, we learn about anatomy, physiology, psychoacoustics, pathologies, technologies, and interventions. We are experts in assessing hearing sensitivity, diagnosing hearing loss, and providing audiological (re)habilitation with technologies and counseling.
According to my dusty hardcover Webster's dictionary, a family is defined as: All the people ... more According to my dusty hardcover Webster's dictionary, a family is defined as: All the people living in the same house; household, 2) a social unit consisting of parents and the children they rear…” (Neufeldt, V, 1988).
The American journal of emergency medicine, Jan 7, 2017
Emergency department (ED) crowding is associated with patient safety concerns, increased patients... more Emergency department (ED) crowding is associated with patient safety concerns, increased patients left without being seen (LWBS), low patient satisfaction, and lost ED revenue. The objective was to measure the impact of a revised triage process on ED throughput. This study took place at an urban, university-affiliated, adult ED with an annual census of 70,000 and admission rate of 34%. The revised triage approach included: identifying eligible patients at triage based on complaint, comorbidities, and illness acuity; and reallocating a nurse practitioner (NP) into our triage area. We trialed the intervention from 1100-2300 on weekdays from January 13-26, 2016. Adult patients who were not likely to require intensive evaluations were eligible. Primary outcomes were throughput measures including: time to provider, ED length of stay (LOS), and LWBS. Pre- and post-intervention metrics were compared using the Mann-Whitney U test, given the non-normal distribution of the metrics. The NP eva...
American Journal of Public Health
To determine whether privately insured female rape victims were billed for charges associated wit... more To determine whether privately insured female rape victims were billed for charges associated with a specific rape in the United States. We examined 2013 de-identified patient data from Truven Analytics Health MarketScan database for an assault that occurred by using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, code E960.1. Analysis of insurance providers' payment patterns for 1355 incident events to female victims aged between 16 and 61 years revealed that victims remit, on average, 14% or 948oftherapecost,whereasinsuranceproviderspay86948 of the rape cost, whereas insurance providers pay 86% or 948oftherapecost,whereasinsuranceproviderspay865789 of the total cost. Hospital billing procedures for privately insured victims of rape across the United States are not separate from billing procedures for privately insured nonrape patients. This standardized procedure leads hospitals to bill victims directly for services not paid under the victims' insurance policy. Public Health Implications. The Violence Against Women Act (passed in 1994, reauthorized in 2000, 2005, and 2013) must be amended to mandate that all costs incurred because of rape are not passed on to the victim.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of South Carolina, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (leaves ... more Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of South Carolina, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-99). Microfilm.