A Phase II Trial for the Treatment of Patients Who Are Unable to Tolerate Allopurinol
Primary Source of Funding: ILEX
Total Project Period: September 2000 – December 2001 Division of Research Principal Investigator: Stephen Sidney, MD, MPH
Description: This study examines allopurinol prescribing habits of Kaiser Permanente physicians to determine the potential feasibility of clinical trial using oxypurinol in patients who are intolerant to allopurinol.
Dietary Supplement Use by Adult Members of Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program of Northern California
Primary Source of Funding: Shaklee Corporation
Total Project Period: March 2000 – April 2001
Division of Research Principal Investigator: Donna M. Schaffer, RD, MPH
Description: A survey of the supplementation practices and health behaviors of respondents to the 1999 Kaiser Permanente Member Health Survey.
Improvement of Wound Care Management by Teledermatology
Primary Source of Funding: The Permanente Medical Group Innovation Program
Total Project Period: January 2000 – December 2001
Division of Research Principal Investigator: Joseph F. Terdiman, MD, PhD
Description: This study seeks to develop a portable teledermatology unit consisting of a digital camera and laptop computer that will be carried by a wound care nurse to patients’ homes and nursing homes. Digital photographs of skin lesions and clinical data will be uploaded to the teledermatology Web site for review by wound care specialists.
Kaiser–Middle School Wellness and Violence Prevention
Primary Source of Funding: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Direct Community Benefit Investment Program
Total Project Period: January 2000 – December 2001
Division of Research Principal Investigator: Annette E. Aalborg, PhD
Description: The aim of this project is to develop parent and youth peer leadership, decrease violence, and improve safety in the school. Students’ perceptions of safety and incidents of fighting, cutting, and suspension are measured.
Lipid Profiles of Kidney Transplant Recipient Patients in a Managed Care Setting
Primary Source of Funding: Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Total Project Period: June 2000 – June 2001
Division of Research Principal Investigator: Mark Alexander, PhD
Description: This study will provide epidemiological data on lipid screening practices and the prevalence of dyslipidemia in patients who received a kidney transplant within Kaiser Permanente, Northern California, between 1989 and 1999.
Looking for Trouble in All the Right Places: Electronic Decision Support for Human Error Reduction in a Large Managed Care Organization
Primary Sources of Funding: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Innovation Program; National Patient Safety Foundation of the American Medical Association
Total Project Period: September 1998 – December 2001
Division of Research Principal Investigator: Gabriel J. Escobar, MD
Description: This project seeks to develop electronic mechanisms for identification of human error at three Kaiser Permanente, Northern California, facilities.
OSCR Database
Primary Source of Funding: University of California San Francisco
Total Project Period: February 2000 – January 2001
Division of Research Principal Investigator: Mark Eisner, MD, MPH
Description: In a cohort of adults with asthma, this project will validate self-reported health care utilization for asthma using Kaiser Permanente computerized databases. In addition, the project will validate self-reported asthma medication use by using PIMS data.
Sociodemographic Database
Primary Source of Funding: Kaiser Permanente Garfield Memorial
Total Project Period: July 2000 – June 2001
Division of Research Principal Investigator: Nancy P. Gordon, ScD
Description: This study, being conducted with the Oakland and Vallejo medical facility service populations, seeks to assess the feasibility of collecting detailed sociodemographic information on all adults in a medical facility service population and to investigate the relationship of member race/ethnicity, education, and language preference to use of health services (especially preventive medicine) and health problems (as identified from Kaiser Permanente’s ICD9-coded OSCR utilization database) in order to make recommendations to health plans and quality reporting of data that will be used to compare across health plans.
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