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Bess T. Schoen
Researcher at Emory University
Publications - 18
Citations - 979
Bess T. Schoen is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Inflammatory bowel disease & Vitamin D and neurology. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 18 publications receiving 844 citations. Previous affiliations of Bess T. Schoen include Boston Children's Hospital.
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ImproveCareNow: The development of a pediatric inflammatory bowel disease improvement network
Wallace Crandall,M Kappelman,Richard B. Colletti,Ian H. Leibowitz,John E. Grunow,Sabina Ali,Howard I. Baron,James Berman,Brendan M. Boyle,Stanley A. Cohen,Fernando del Rosario,Lee A. Denson,Lynn Duffy,Mark Integlia,Sandra C. Kim,David E. Milov,Ashish S. Patel,Bess T. Schoen,Dorota Walkiewicz,Peter A. Margolis +19 more
TL;DR: Improvements suggest that practice sites are learning how to apply quality improvement methods to improve the care of patients.
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Prevalence and epidemiology of overweight and obesity in children with inflammatory bowel disease.
Millie D. Long,Wallace Crandall,Ian H. Leibowitz,Lynn Duffy,Fernando del Rosario,Sandra C. Kim,Mark Integlia,James Berman,John E. Grunow,Richard B. Colletti,Bess T. Schoen,Ashish S. Patel,Howard I. Baron,Esther J. Israel,George Russell,Sabina Ali,Hans H Herfarth,Christopher Martin,Michael D. Kappelman +18 more
TL;DR: One in five children with CD and one in three with UC are overweight or obese, and rates of obesity in UC are comparable to the general population.
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Improved Outcomes in a Quality Improvement Collaborative for Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Wallace Crandall,Peter A. Margolis,Michael D. Kappelman,Eileen C. King,Jesse Pratt,Brendan M. Boyle,Lynn Duffy,John E. Grunow,Sandra C. Kim,Ian H. Leibowitz,Bess T. Schoen,Richard B. Colletti +11 more
TL;DR: Improvements in the outcomes of patients with CD and UC were associated with improvements in the process of chronic illness care, and variation in the success of implementing changes suggests the importance of overcoming organizational factors related to quality improvement success.
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Short pediatric Crohn's disease activity index for quality improvement and observational research
Michael D. Kappelman,Wallace Crandall,Richard B. Colletti,Anthony Goudie,Ian H. Leibowitz,Lynn Duffy,David E. Milov,Sandra C. Kim,Bess T. Schoen,Ashish S. Patel,John E. Grunow,Evette Larry,Gerry Fairbrother,Peter A. Margolis +13 more
TL;DR: The Short PCDAI is a practical and valid tool to measure pediatric CD activity and its use should facilitate quality improvement and observational research.
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Inflammatory bowel disease in African-American children living in Georgia
TL;DR: The pilot study suggests that IBD may be more common in African-American children than previously reported and Prospective population-based studies would be useful to determine whether inheritable factors linked with ethnicity are associated with IBD.