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Amy Faith HoMD, MPH
Research

The evidence under the argument.

Peer-reviewed work spanning clinical outcomes, ED operations, health informatics, and health policy.

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Peer-reviewed publications

2024Recommendations for Updates to Emergency Medical Kits for Commercial AviationRajagopal AB, Pissaris A, Clark K, Merrill A, Glatter R, Ho A, Towle DC, Yanuck J, Lahham S, Ulin L, Fischetti C, Apisa L. Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance. 2024;95(10):794-796. doi:10.3357/AMHP.6505.20242024What explains differences in average wait time in the emergency department among different racial and ethnic populations: A linear decomposition approachWang H, Sambamoorthi N, Robinson RD, Knowles H, Kirby JJ, Ho AF, Takami T, Sambamoorthi U. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open. 2024;5(5):e13293. doi:10.1002/emp2.132932023Factors Associated with Reducing Disparities in Electronic Personal Health Records Use Among Non-Hispanic White and Hispanic AdultsWang H, Manning SE, Ho AF, Sambamoorthi U. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 2023;10(3):1201-1211. doi:10.1007/s40615-022-01307-52023The status of patient portal use among Emergency Department patients experiencing houselessness: A large-scale single-center observational studyHolmes C, Holmes K, Scarborough J, Hunt J, d’Etienne JP, Ho AF, Alanis N, Kirby R, Schrader CD, Wang H. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2023;66:118-123. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2023.01.0292023A Multi-Level Analysis of Individual and Neighborhood Factors Associated with Patient Portal Use among Adult Emergency Department Patients with MultimorbidityWang H, Shen C, Barbaro M, Ho AF, Pathak M, Dunn C, Sambamoorthi U. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023;20(2):1231. doi:10.3390/ijerph200212312022Patient Portal Use Among Diabetic Patients With Different Races and EthnicitiesWang H, Kirby R, Pierce A, Barbaro M, Ho AF, Blalock J, Schrader CD. Journal of Clinical Medicine Research. 2022;14(10):400-408. doi:10.14740/jocmr48222022Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic associated with anxiety and depression among non-Hispanic whites with chronic conditions in the USWang H, Paul J, Ye I, Blalock JR, Wiener C, Ho AF, Alanis N, Sambamoorthi U. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. 2022;8:100331. doi:10.1016/j.jadr.2022.1003312021Causal Effect Analysis of Demographic Concordance of Physician Trust and Respect in an Emergency Care SettingHo AF, Zhou Y, Kirby JJ, Rahman MM, Tessitore K, Abdel-Raziq Y, d’Etienne JP, Schrader CD, Wang H. Open Access Emergency Medicine. 2021;13:503-509. doi:10.2147/OAEM.S3344952021The Association of Mobile Health Applications with Self-Management Behaviors among Adults with Chronic Conditions in the United StatesWang H, Ho AF, Wiener RC, Sambamoorthi U. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021;18(19):10351. doi:10.3390/ijerph1819103512021A Simplified Comorbidity Evaluation Predicting Clinical Outcomes Among Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019Kirby JJ, Shaikh S, Bryant DP, Ho AF, d’Etienne JP, Schrader CD, Wang H. Journal of Clinical Medicine Research. 2021;13(4):237-244. doi:10.14740/jocmr44762021Association between burnout and wellness culture among emergency medicine providersJyothindran R, d’Etienne JP, Marcum K, Ho AF, Robinson RD, Tijerina A, Graca C, Knowles HC, Zenarosa NR, Wang H. Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine. 2021;8(1):55-64. doi:10.15441/ceem.20.0742021Two-step predictive model for early detection of emergency department patients with prolonged stay and its management implicationsd’Etienne JP, Zhou Y, Kan C, Shaikh S, Ho AF, Suley E, Blustein E, Schrader CD, Zenarosa NR, Wang H. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2021;40:148-158. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2020.01.0502020Initiation of the ABCD3-I Algorithm for Expedited Evaluation of Transient Ischemic Attack Patients in an Emergency DepartmentDahlquist R, Young J, Reyner K, Moleno RB, Gandham G, Ho AF, Wang H. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2020;38(4):741-745. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2019.06.0182019Common step-wise interventions improved primary care clinic visits and reduced emergency department discharge failures: a large-scale retrospective observational studySchrader C, Robinson R, Blair S, Shaikh S, Ho AF, d’Etienne J, Kirby J, Cheeti R, Zenarosa N, Wang H. BMC Health Services Research. 2019;19(1):451. doi:10.1186/s12913-019-4300-12019Emergency Medicine Resident Efficiency and Emergency Department CrowdingKirby R, Robinson RD, Dib S, Mclarty D, Shaikh S, Cheeti R, Ho AF, Schrader CD, Zenarosa NR, Wang H. AEM Education and Training. 2019;3(3):209-217. doi:10.1002/aet2.103272018The social media index as an indicator of quality for emergency medicine blogs: a METRIQ studyThoma B, et al. (incl. Ho AF). Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2018;72(6):696-702. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2018.05.0032017Individual gestalt is unreliable for the evaluation of quality in medical education blogs: a METRIQ studyThoma B, et al. (incl. Ho AF). Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2017;70(3):394-401. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2016.12.025

Posters & abstracts

2021

PNS109 Reducing the Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Personal Health Record (PHR) Adoption in the US

Wang H, Ho AF, Sambamoorthi UValue in Health, 24:S192

2020

Different risks predicting patient satisfaction between near-time and traditional satisfaction surveys

Ho A, Smith K, Kirby J, Huggins C, Schrader C, Wang HIES Quality Summit, John Peter Smith Hospital, Fort Worth, TX

2020

Inconsistent Patient Satisfaction Response Delivered Between Near Real-Time and Remote Surveys

Kirby J, Abdel-Raziq Y, Ho A, Schrader C, Wang HIES Quality Summit, John Peter Smith Hospital, Fort Worth, TX

2020

The impact of multi-modal analgesia in the Emergency Department

Kirby J, Johnson L, d’Etienne J, Wang H, Ho A, Schrader C, Cross GIES Quality Summit, John Peter Smith Hospital, Fort Worth, TX

2018

A Novel Transitional Care Strategy Improving Health Care Utilization in Diabetes Patients

Ho ATexas College of Emergency Physicians, Fort Worth, TX

Encore oral abstract, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, May 2018

Encore oral abstract, American College of Emergency Physicians, October 2018

2017

Pediatric Nicotine Toxicity and Recommendations on Harm Reduction with E-Cigarette Use

Ho AUniversity of Chicago Medicine Research Symposium, Chicago, IL

2015

Acquired methemoglobinemia in patients treated with dapsone and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole

Ho AUniversity of Chicago Medicine Research Symposium, Chicago, IL

2013

Mercury poisoning in a hypertensive child with abnormal compulsive behaviors, weight loss, transient rash, and generalized pain: a case report

Feng S, Goto C, Ho AUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Encore presentation, AMA Research Symposium, November 2014

2012

Optic Nerve Rim Area Pattern of Healthy Subjects with Spectral Domain OCT

Wang A, Whitson J, Ho AOphthalmology Alumni Day, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

2011

Perioperative Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Complex Resections of Intraabdominal and Extremity Malignancy

Mansour J, Ho AUT Southwestern Research Symposium, Dallas, TX

Encore presentation, AMA Interim Conference, 2012

2010

Establishing a Procedure for Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis (MLVA) of Escherichia coli O157:H7

Ho A, Benfield A, Field LTexas Department of State Health Services / University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Submitted as Dean’s Scholars thesis in Biology, UT Austin College of Natural Sciences