All Articles on Health

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  Mental health patients will answer when asked about firearms
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  4 questions for a suicide-prevention researcher

  Julie Richards, PhD, MPH, just published the first paper from a Kaiser Permanente program on firearm injury prevention.
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  2 new scholars to train as learning health systems scientists

  Scholars will study in-home oxygen use for COPD and the use of patient portals for adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
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  Practice facilitators: Boots on the ground for better care

  How LHS Program practice facilitators work with KP Washington care teams to improve care.
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  KPWHRI to launch study on vaccine hesitancy among long-term care workers

  The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute plans to award $4.75 million to compare ways to raise COVID-19 immunization rates
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  Detecting, assessing suicidal ideation during COVID-19

  Drs. Greg Simon and Megan Gary share how new processes improved suicide risk identification when mental health visits went virtual.
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  How infrastructure projects can better accommodate health and equity

  A new brief spotlights health impact assessments as a process to improve planning for major developments.