Embedded Pragmatic Trials for Alzheimer’s Disease: Difficult to Define and Implement, but Desperately Needed
Embedded Pragmatic Trials for Alzheimer’s Disease: Difficult to Define and Implement, but Desperately Needed
Pre-Pregnancy Care for Women with Diabetes is Critical, but Inadequately Delivered
AcademyHealth members Cassondra Marshall and Laura Britton highlight their recently published commentary in Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation about how health systems can better support diabetes-specific preconception care.
Trust and Respect in the Patient-Clinician Relationship: Preliminary Development of a New Scale
This study aimed to develop and report preliminary psychometric analyses of a new brief measure to evaluate a patient’s level of trust and respect for their clinician.
Issue Brief Highlights Importance of Implementation Science to Address Opioid Epidemic
AcademyHealth member Sarah Shoemaker-Hunt outlines the growing body of research on opioid interventions and points to an opportunity for more work describing the strategies used and what makes them successful.
Focus on Patients is a Key to Reducing Low-Value Care
AcademyHealth staff reflect on the continuing need to advance research on low value care, following a Health Affairs blog post urging a focus on vulnerable populations in broader efforts to reduce low-value care.
Challenges in Health Data Do Not Exist in a Vacuum
Co-located Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference co-chair Niall Brennan highlights the importance of diverse perspectives to solve our most pressing health care challenges in the first of a series of blog posts prior to the February meeting.
Study Points to Opportunity to Decrease Clinical Intensity through Training in Difficult Conversations
New research finds that while care provider characteristics are unrelated to clinical work intensity, difficult discussions around terminal prognosis, chemotherapy and level of service is directly associated with higher clinical intensity.
Mastering Health Care Improvement: Lessons Learned from AcademyHealth Delivery System Science Fellows
2018 AcademyHealth Delivery System Science Fellows outline the benefits of the fellowship for both students and host sites.
12th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health
Raising the bar on the rigor, relevance, and rapidity of dissemination and implementation science.
Webinar: 2019 Child Health Services Research IG Abstract Session
This webinar will be a research abstract presentation panel, providing a forum for child health services researchers to share their work with peers.