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Neuwirth EB, Bellows J, Jackson AH, Price PM. How Kaiser Permanente uses video ethnography of patients for quality improvement, such as in shaping better care transitions. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2012;31(6):1244-50. [Accessed June 6, 2012]. This paper, published by esteemed colleagues at the Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute, describes results from a program that now [...]
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Mccormick D, Bor DH, Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU. Giving Office-Based Physicians Electronic Access To Patients’ Prior Imaging And Lab Results Did Not Deter Ordering Of Tests. Health Affairs. 2012;(March):1-9. This study, being released to the public at the exact same time of this blog post, should generate healthy discussion about whether health information technology, fully [...]
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Iezzoni LI, Rao SR, Desroches CM, Vogeli C, Campbell EG. Survey shows that at least some physicians are not always open or honest with patients. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2012;31(2):383-91. Wolston M. An MS Patient Loses Trust When She Finds Out Her Doctor Is Paid By Drug Companies. Health Affairs. 2011;30(12):2449-2452. These two papers put [...]
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Laveist T, Pollack K, Thorpe R, Fesahazion R, Gaskin D. Place, not race: disparities dissipate in southwest Baltimore when blacks and whites live under similar conditions. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2011;30(10):1880-7. When I was reading about social determinants recently, I came across an error in one of Sir Michael Marmot’s writings, in this JAMA article [...]
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Woolf SH, Braveman P. Where Health Disparities Begin: The Role Of Social And Economic Determinant And Why Current Policies May Make Matters Worse. Health Affairs. 2011;30(10):1852-1859 Social Determinants – they are the difficult stuff to change, however they may be more influential than all of the individually directed approaches that are out there. I covered [...]
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Auerbach DI, Buerhaus PI, Staiger DO. Registered nurse supply grows faster than projected amid surge in new entrants ages 23-26. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2011;30(12):2286-92 This is an update on a paper I commented on a year ago (See: “Now Reading: The changing nursing profession“). That study noted a surge in younger entrance into the [...]
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When I decided to toss most of the slides I was going to show at the Consumer Health Congress in Washington, DC, I knew that I would be able to share that information here, in the social media world, where the conversation never ends. Here is some impressive data regarding the impact of patient-physician e-mail. [...]