All Articles on Health Services

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  Patient-doctor trust withstands opioid risk reduction

  Risk-reduction initiative for chronic opioid therapy sustains patient-doctor trust, Dr. Karen Sherman finds.
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  How the LHS Program helps us be best at getting better

  One year in, leaders of KPWHRI's LHS Program describe how research-care delivery partnerships drive continuous learning.
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  Community health workers can help make the difference for patients

  Leah Tuzzio, MPH, and colleagues describe an underutilized role that can help primary care become truly patient-centered.
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  Health execs identify barriers and benefits to research that matters

  Drs. Eric B. Larson and Karin Johnson asked delivery system leaders about the challenges and rewards of research. Read their findings in Modern Healthcare.
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  How can radiologists detect breast cancer more accurately?

  Research suggests having radiologists do diagnostic workups of some of their own recalled cases can help improve accuracy.
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  Nurse-led TEAMcare benefits patients with chronic conditions

  Study recommends RNs for greater role in collaborative care
• Collaborative care improves depression in teens

  How best to care for the many adolescents who have depression? In a collaborative care intervention, a care manager continually reached out to teens—delivering and following up on treatment in a primary-care setting (the office of a pediatrician or family doctor, not a psychiatrist or psychologist) at Group Health Cooperative. Depression outcomes after a year were significantly better with this approach than with usual care, according to a randomized controlled trial published in JAMA.