• Our Mission

    KPWHRI improves health, well-being, and health equity for our members and all communities through collaborative research and evaluation.

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  • Our Research

    Discovering what works best for health and health care.

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    Read about our latest news and findings.

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    Practical findings for everyone's health.

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Welcome to Kaiser Permanente Washington
Health Research Institute

We discover ways to prevent illness and improve treatment.
We're making health and health care better for everyone.


Research

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Latino families inform training for caregivers of people with dementia

Maggie Ramirez, PhD, and Robert Penfold, PhD, culturally adapt an online program.

New findings

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Better tools for assessing substance use disorder

A simple checklist developed at KPWHRI does well at measuring symptoms of substance use disorder.

Healthy findings blog

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How do you make sense of a mountain of evidence?

KPWHRI researchers answer questions about systematic reviews and their impact on health care guidelines.


Our research

We study health and health care as it happens in everyday settings by everyday people, producing results that are built to work in the real world. We share our results in the public domain to benefit people everywhere.