Use of secure electronic messaging with providers in KPNC
We will examine patient use of secure electronic messaging services (e.g., "Email my doctor"), and survey responses about experience with and perceptions of secure electronic messaging.
Funder: Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit Program
Principal Investigator: Reed, Mary
Learnings in Diabetes Prevention from an Integrated Delivery System
Includes evaluation studies of a health plan employer partnership that identifies employees at high risk for diabetes on intervenes using outreach and communication, feedback, incentives, and health coaching to change behaviors and reduce risk; a broader evaluation of a new telephone health coaching program that will ultimately be available to all adult members; and the Regional Perinatal Service Centers region-wide program for reducing risk among women who have had gestational diabetes mellitus.
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Principal Investigator: Selby, Joe
Effectiveness of medical therapy, endovascular therapy, and surgery for peripheral arterial disease
The objective is to inform current practice regarding peripheral arterial disease (PAD) treatment as follows: 1) to assemble a registry of PAD patients (n=60,000) in 2 integrated healthcare delivery systems and collect detailed chart abstracted procedural data (n=3,000) for those who undergo endovascular or surgical revascularization; 2) to describe demographics, co-morbidities, medications, and risk factor control of diagnosed PAD patients by medical therapy only, endovascular therapy or surgery; and 3) to assess the comparative effectiveness of surgery versus endovascular therapy for PAD.
Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Principal Investigator: Go, Alan
Effect of Intimate Partner Violence on Women's Health Care Utilization
This project will (1) Determine the patterns of current health care utilization (mental health, primary care, specialty care, emergency department, inpatient, pharmacy, laboratory and radiology) and costs among women who are and are not experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV); (2) test the hypothesis that women currently experiencing IPV have lower rates of receipt of routine preventive care (PAP smear, mammogram, CRC screening) than those not experiencing IPV; and (3) determine how clinical identification of IPV-affected women affects health care utilization.
Funder: Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit Program
Principal Investigator: Ahmed, Ameena
Diverse Autism Registry for Effectiveness Studies
The goal of the study is to create a large, comprehensive and dynamic
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) registry across several integrated health
systems. The first phase of the study will look at variability across
the participating health plans in the prevalence of ASD, in medical and
psychiatric co-morbidities in the ASD population, and in the use of
psychotropic medications to treat children and adolescents with ASDs.
The second phase will look at different treatment approaches, and
treatment burdens for families of children with ASD, and parental
perceptions of the efficacy of different treatments. During the second
phase of the study, parents of children diagnosed with an ASD who are
Kaiser Permanente members will be invited to complete a Web survey and
contribute a blood or saliva sample for future ASD research.
Funder: National Institute of Mental Health
Principal Investigator: Croen, Lisa
Comparing the long-term and real world effectiveness of initial management strategies for DCIS
Use data from the DCIS study (initially funded via the Cancer Research Network) to generate real world evidence regarding risk of recurrence and treatment for recurrence after initial diagnosis and treatment. Specifically, we will 1) Determine type of surgery and the rate of complications from surgery including reconstructive surgery after recurrence, 2) Use the variables in the study to create a personalized risk score for use in predicting the rate of recurrence in an individual patient and 3) Study the timing, side effects, compliance of tamoxifen therapy and the relationship between duration of tamoxifen on timing of local recurrence and the use of tamoxifen at diagnosis of DCIS recurrence.
Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Principal Investigator: Habel, Laurel
Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks (ACTION II)
Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Principal Investigator: Schmittdiel, Julie
Increasing Participation in Cancer Clinical Trials: Diversity Supplement
To test an organizational intervention to increase participation in national, cooperative group, cancer clinical trials.
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Principal Investigator: Somkin, Carol
Developing an HMORN Collaboratory
In collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, the Collaboratory will strengthen the HMORN research ceners' partnerships with their parent health systems, enabling more robust evidence translation capabailities.
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Principal Investigator: Habel, Laurel
Randomized Screening Trial for Melanoma in a Large Cancer Research Network
The specific aims of this project are to produce a state-of-the-art, web-based educational program for primary care clinicians (PCCs) to screen for skin cancer by full body skin examination (FBSE).
Funder: Melanoma Research Alliance
Principal Investigator: Asgari, Maryam
UCSF/Kaiser-DOR Program for Developing Independent Women's Health Researchers
Funder: Nat. Inst. of Child Health and Human Dev.
Principal Investigator: Selby, Joe
Development and Implementation of Novel Molecular Diagnostic Tools to Guide Combination Therapy for Malignant Glioma Patients
Funder: Ivy Foundation
Principal Investigator: Peak, Scott
Patient Safety Screening Study
Funder: Univ. of Massachusetts
Principal Investigator: McCormick, Mark
Improving Health Care Access in Native American Communities: What Can Tribes Do
The research team will use case studies to examine the conditions under which tribal control is productive and those healthcare strategies that appear to be working. The projects eight case studies will focus on how healthcare strategies and access vary across different levels of tribal control among tribes in MI, MS, NM, and two additional states. The objective will be to characterize successful management strategies and to determine the role of tribal control and other key factors in their success.
Funder: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Principal Investigator: Adams, Alyce
Barriers to Adherence in Patients Prescribed a Statin
This study will examine patient-reported barriers to adherence to statin medication therapy and potential approaches for improving adherence among patients prescribed statins for primary prevention, secondary prevention, and coronary risk equivalents using structured telephone interviews in adult Kaiser Permanente Northern California members.
Funder: Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit Program
Principal Investigator: Jaffe, Marc
Does primary stroke center certification change ED diagnosis,
utilization, and disposition of patients with acute stroke?
Ballard, D. W.;
Reed, M. E.;
Huang, J.;
Kramer, B. J.;
Hsu, J.;
Chettipally, U.;
Nov 17 2011
PubMed abstract
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Ethnic Differences in Appointment-Keeping and Implications for the
Patient-Centered Medical Home-Findings from the Diabetes Study of
Northern California (DISTANCE)
Parker, M. M.;
Moffet, H. H.;
Schillinger, D.;
Adler, N.;
Fernandez, A.;
Ciechanowski, P.;
Karter, A. J.;
Oct 27 2011
PubMed abstract
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The impact of maternal characteristics on the moderately premature
infant: an antenatal maternal transport clinical prediction rule
Dukhovny, D.;
Dukhovny, S.;
Pursley, D. M.;
Escobar, G. J.;
McCormick, M. C.;
Mao, W. Y.;
Zupancic, J. A.;
Nov 10 2011
PubMed abstract
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Innovative policy strategies need empirical evaluation
Weisner, C.;
Addiction
106
(12):
2069-70
Dec 2011
PubMed abstract
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Adverse outcomes associated with delayed intensive care unit
transfers in an integrated healthcare system
Liu, V.;
Kipnis, P.;
Rizk, N. W.;
Escobar, G. J.;
Oct 28 2011
PubMed abstract
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Clinician awareness and knowledge of breast cancer-related
lymphedema in a large, integrated health care delivery setting
Tam, E. K.;
Shen, L.;
Munneke, J. R.;
Ackerson, L. M.;
Partee, P. N.;
Somkin, C. P.;
Andre, M.;
Kutner, S. E.;
Thiadens, S. R.;
Kwan, M. L.;
Oct 29 2011
PubMed abstract
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Predictors of recruited melanoma families into a behavioral
intervention project
Bowen, D. J.;
Hay, J. L.;
Mayer, J.;
Kuniyuki, A.;
Meischke, H.;
Harris, J.;
Asgari, M.;
Shoveller, J.;
Press, N.;
Burke, W.;
Oct 8 2011
PubMed abstract
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Continuing care and long-term substance use outcomes in managed
care: early evidence for a primary care-based model
Chi, F. W.;
Parthasarathy, S.;
Mertens, J. R.;
Weisner, C. M.;
62
(10):
1194-200
Oct 2011
PubMed abstract
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Patient-Reported Racial/Ethnic Healthcare Provider Discrimination and Medication Intensification in the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE)
Lyles, C. R.;
Karter, A. J.;
Young, B. A.;
Spigner, C.;
Grembowski, D.;
Schillinger, D.;
Adler, N.;
Journal of general internal medicine
26
(10):
1138-44
Oct 2011
PubMed abstract
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Patient-Reported Racial/Ethnic Healthcare Provider Discrimination
and Medication Intensification in the Diabetes Study of Northern
California (DISTANCE)
Lyles, C. R.;
Karter, A. J.;
Young, B. A.;
Spigner, C.;
Grembowski, D.;
Schillinger, D.;
Adler, N.;
26
(10):
1138-44
Oct 2011
PubMed abstract
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Provision of Contraceptive Services to Women with Diabetes Mellitus
Schwarz, E. B.;
Postlethwaite, D.;
Hung, Y. Y.;
Lantzman, E.;
Armstrong, M. A.;
Horberg, M. A.;
Sep 16 2011
PubMed abstract
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Provision of Contraceptive Services to Women with Diabetes Mellitus
Schwarz, E. B.;
Postlethwaite, D.;
Hung, Y. Y.;
Lantzman, E.;
Armstrong, M. A.;
Horberg, M. A.;
Journal of general internal medicine
Sep 16 2011
PubMed abstract
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Postacute care and ischemic stroke mortality: findings from an
integrated health care system in northern california
Wang, H.;
Sandel, M. E.;
Terdiman, J.;
Armstrong, M. A.;
Klatsky, A.;
Camicia, M.;
Sidney, S.;
3
(8):
686-94
Aug 2011
PubMed abstract
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Diagnosis, Comorbidities And Management Of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
In Patients In A Large Health Maintenance Organization
Ladabaum, U.;
Boyd, E.;
Zhao, W. K.;
Mannalithara, A.;
Sharabidze, A.;
Singh, G.;
Chung, E.;
Levin, T. R.;
Aug 23 2011
PubMed abstract
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Slowing demand for total joint arthroplasty in a population of 3.2
million
Bini, S. A.;
Sidney, S.;
Sorel, M.;
J Arthroplasty
26
(6 Suppl):
124-8
Sep 2011
PubMed abstract
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