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- Scientific Highlights—April 2014
Group Health Research Institute Scientific Highlights—April 2014
- ‘Glad you’re listening’: SIMBA study brings patients’ voices to the fore
For the three million women in the United States who’ve survived breast cancer, difficult health care choices come with the territory. But even after successful treatment, an important question lingers: Should they consider magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in addition to mammography for ongoing breast cancer screening, or “surveillance”?
- Can we talk?
As a health services researcher, I know the toll society pays when we fail to help patients talk about and plan for eventualities like end-of-life care. Surveys show most Americans would prefer to die peacefully at home—and a recent study shows increasingly more are doing so. But the same study also reports that in their last three months, more patients are being hospitalized—and more often in intensive care units.
- Local heroes: CCHE helps communities show measurable change
CCHE is meeting the challenge of skyrocketing demand for community health evaluation, which is driven by several factors. Rising interest in CCHE services also comes from the national trend toward “place-based” programs that address local health issues.
- 2 spine surgeons are 3 times safer than 1
A new team approach has improved safety—reducing rates of major complications by two thirds—for complex spinal reconstructive surgery for spinal deformity in adult Group Health patients at Virginia Mason Hospital & Seattle Medical Center.
New online care from dietitians helps control weightOverweight Group Health patients with hypertension benefit from ‘pocket dietitian’
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