American Heart Association

Assessing Value of Behavioral Interventions: Designing Cost-Effectiveness Analyses for Food-Is-Medicine Interventions

Food-is-Medicine (FIM) interventions, including medically tailored meals, medically tailored groceries, and produce prescriptions, represent a promising approach to prevent, manage, and treat diet-related diseases. As the evidence base for FIM interventions expands through large-...

Validation of AACN’s Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool–Team

Background In 2024, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) updated the Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool (HWEAT), renamed HWEAT-Team. Objective Validating HWEAT-Team for interprofessional use. Methods This was a multisite, descriptive, nonexperimental corr...

Toward a Deeper Understanding of Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events for 10‐Year Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk: Subgroup Fairness and Predictive Value of Social Determinants of Health

BACKGROUND: The American Heart Association's Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events model offers a modern, race-free approach to risk prediction, but its subgroup fairness and the added value of social determinants of health (SDOH) remain underexplored. METHODS: To eval...

Optimal Data Collection in Lifestyle Medicine at the Point of Care: A Position Statement From the American College of Lifestyle Medicine

The full potential of lifestyle medicine has yet to be realized within the healthcare system, and it is hindered by the lack of systematic data collection focused on modifiable lifestyle factors that influence chronic disease. It is the position of the American College of Lifesty...