Webinar: Enhancing Data Access and Capacity for Childhood Obesity Research
This webinar discussed how the Childhood Obesity Data Initiative (CODI) leverages several innovative techniques to accomplish its goals.
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.
New Checklist Aims to Improve Quality and Consistency in Dissemination
Cochrane creates a new way to improve the quality and consistency of dissemination products that share the findings from Cochrane health evidence.
Research Provides Insights for Quality Improvement Efforts in Primary Care Settings
As primary care practices face tremendous pressure to improve quality and access to care, a recent study points to key considerations for implementing primary care quality improvement efforts.
Creating an Evidence-Based Cancer Survivorship Care Quality Framework
Larissa Nekhlyudov, AcademyHealth member and inaugural NCI/AcademyHealth visiting scholar, highlights her work to develop a cancer survivorship care quality framework.
Reflections on World Patient Safety Day: An Urgent Call for Radical Action
With medical errors causing more than 250,000 deaths annually, Karen Wolk Feinstein of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, an AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, issues a call for change in four key areas to save lives and improve care.
The First World Patient Safety Day: Time for a Moonshot for Health Services Research?
AcademyHealth member and Professor Hardeep Singh and Tejal Gandhi, chief clinical and safety officer at IHI, highlight three considerations for the field of health services research to advance patient safety.
Review Highlights Need for More Holistic Measures around Low-Value Care
A review commissioned by AcademyHealth finds that most efforts to decrease low-value care focus more on the reduction of certain tests and treatments, rather than on assessing unintended consequences, listening to patients and providers, and measuring outcomes.
Evaluating Health Care Innovation in Five Easy Steps
Health Data Leadership Institute speaker and AcademyHealth member Lisa Green encourages consumers and researchers to consider the strengths and shortcomings of data used to measure the effectiveness of health care interventions, models, and policies.