All Articles on Safety

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  As Obamacare expands access, clinics use team care to adapt

  When more people are covered, clinics have more patients. Maggie Jones writes that safety net clinics are adjusting, supported by private foundations.
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  Finding safer ways to treat behavioral disorders in kids and teens

  With $10 million from NIMH, KPWHRI is leading a multi-site study to ensure safe prescribing of antipsychotic drugs for youth with behavioral disorders.
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  Prince’s apparent opioid-linked death shows need for new plan for pain

  For over a decade, Dr. Michael Von Korff and others have been working on a strategy to stop the opioid epidemic. Here’s an outline.
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  Sometimes ‘less care’ feels like ‘better care’

  Mother and Group Health Research Institute project manager Casey Luce sees first-hand how research improved her daughter’s health care.
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  Starting sleeping pills? Risk of car crash may double

  A UW-Group Health study linked sleeping pills to nearly twice as many car crashes in Group Health patients. Clinicians should take precautions or try nondrug approaches to insomnia.
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  Mexican meds: Tempting but potentially toxic

  A GHRI researcher worries about easy access to prescription meds after seeing for herself how common they are across the border.
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  Medical Care special issue features Safety Net Medical Home Initiative

  Progress report on landmark initiative to improve care for vulnerable populations.