This project will examine patient and community-level correlates of housing instability and homelessness using observational data sources. These formative analyses will develop variables to operationalize housing instability using administrative and clini...
Funder: Community Benefit (not Benefits)
Investigator: Schmittdiel, Julie
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The benefit of teledermatology for triaging skin rashes is not adequately understood. The study will assess how implementation of teledermatology (technology and staffing) improves the effectiveness and efficiency of diagnosis, including wait time to diag...
Funder: The Permanente Medical Group
Investigator: Herrinton, Lisa
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Sepsis is the most common illness leading to hospitalization in the United States, affecting more than 1 million Americans each year. While short-term mortality has improved over prior decades, sepsis survivors face numerous post-hospital sequelae that ne...
Funder: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Investigator: Liu, Vincent
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Rapid expansions in the use of electronic health record (EHR) systems also contribute to large expansions in the availability of metadata. These highly granular metadata may prove particularly useful for understanding how frontline clinicians interact wit...
Funder: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Investigator: Liu, Vincent
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Conducted with co-investigator Dustin G. Mark, MD, this study helps emergency physicians with estimates of individual patient risk for patients with chest pain. The research team will evaluate impacts on guideline-supported acute coronary syndrome evaluat...
Funder: The Permanente Medical Group
Investigator: Reed, Mary
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This project aims to develop a set of algorithms for generic error detection, prevention, and mitigation in the hospital setting. The goal is to develop algorithms that can operate in real time so as to support an existing infrastructure (the eHospita...
Funder: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel
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In a population of adults with newly diagnosed, early onset type 2 diabetes, this study will identify patient-, provider-, and system-level predictors of inadequate glycemic control within one year following diagnosis. A longitudinal, retrospective co...
Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Investigator: Gopalan, Anjali
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This study will examine whether significant differences across Asian ethnic groups in prevalence of chronic diseases, behavioral/psychosocial risk factors, preventive service use, and patient portal use are masked when statistics are reported for “Asi...
Funder: Northern California Community Benefit Programs
Investigator: Gordon, Nancy
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A relatively small proportion of patients with complex needs represent a major source of cost and utilization. The fundamental principle that distinguishes complex needs patients from other high-cost patients with well-defined medical issues is that &...
Funder: Garfield Memorial Fund
Investigator: Grant, Richard
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Diabetes remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and it is a significant burden to the U.S. health care system, patients, and their families. The knowledge and skills necessary to overcome the final translational block from evidence into pract...
Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Investigator: Grant, Richard; Schmittdiel, Julie
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This administrative supplement solicited by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) will provide two to six medical students with summer training opportunities in translational research. This supplement allows the exis...
Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Investigator: Grant, Richard; Schmittdiel, Julie
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The clinical and financial impact of diabetes-related interventions and policies may not be quantifiable without the use of simulation models that reflect the long-term course of disease and its complications. Models of diabetes complications are used...
Funder: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Investigator: Karter, Andrew
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This project is designed to pursue pre-sepsis opportunities to identify patients at high-risk for sepsis and develop risk prediction models to mitigate the impact of impending sepsis by leveraging granular electronic health record data.
Funder: National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Investigator: Liu, Vincent
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In this study, Kaiser Permanente Northern California researchers will serve as consultants for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers to evaluate the utility of template matching techniques, compared with standard regression techniques, ...
Funder: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Investigator: Liu, Vincent
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The purpose of this project is to examine quality indicators for key chronic conditions such as diabetes and asthma for the Medi-Cal population served by Kaiser Permanente Northern California and to see how these indicators vary by different population de...
Funder: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
Investigator: Schmittdiel, Julie
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This project aims to determine whether fields included in the National Institutes of Health’s Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement System (PROMIS) questionnaires for cognition and physical function, as well as those in the Your Current Life Situation (YC...
Funder: Kaiser Permanente Program Offices
Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel
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This study has three primary aims: 1) to evaluate the effectiveness of Testicular Cancer Redesign on rates of use of guideline-adherent and avoidable utilization; 2) to evaluate users’ ability to adopt and maintain use of Testicular Cancer Redesign wo...
Funder: The Permanente Medical Group
Investigator: Herrinton, Lisa
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The new Kaiser Permanente Your Current Life Situation (YCLS) screening questionnaire will be mailed to a random sample of 7,000 adult members of Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC), oversampling patients at low to medium risk for hospitalization....
Funder: Kaiser Permanente Program Offices
Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel; Gordon, Nancy
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This study aims to employ machine learning methods to develop predictive models for adverse drug events, or ADEs, that result in patients using the emergency department and/or being hospitalized (non-nosocomial ADEs, NNADEs). Based on work with a pharmaci...
Funder: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel
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This study aims to determine whether specific items from two questionnaires currently in use at Kaiser Permanente Northern California (the Your Current Life Situation questionnaire and selected functional status questionnaires from the National Institutes...
Funder: Kaiser Permanente Program Offices
Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel
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Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Investigator: Reed, Mary
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This project is proposed by University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) gastroenterology fellow Suzanne Sharpton, who is also earning an M.S. in public health. She is supported by Kaiser Permanente gastroenterologist Varun Saxton and bariatric surgeon ...
Funder: East Bay Community Foundation
Investigator: Herrinton, Lisa
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This project consists of tasks required for data partners in the Food and Drug Administration’s Sentinel Initiative under the initiative’s “Year 4 Infrastructure” statement of work. Most of the requirements involve data partner staff running data requests...
Funder: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Investigator: Herrinton, Lisa
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This study will examine whether significant differences across Asian ethnic groups in prevalence of chronic diseases, behavioral and psychosocial risk factors, preventive service use, and patient-portal use are masked when statistics are reported for Asia...
Funder: Northern California Community Benefit Programs
Investigator: Gordon, Nancy
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Patients with type 2 diabetes are increasingly living with multiple concurrent conditions and complicated medical regimens. For these patients, diabetes management decisions and treatment goals must be addressed within the larger context of other competin...
Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Investigator: Grant, Richard
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