Dr. Barbara Bowers, the Founding Director of the Center for Aging Research and Education, recently published the Implementing Change in Long-Term Care Toolkit on HIPxChange. This toolkit was designed to assist organizations, and the staff who work there, to implement changes that will improve care quality and to sustain them. In this toolkit you will… Read more »
HIP Investigator, Dr. Andrew Quanbeck published the toolkit, Decision-framing to Incorporate Stakeholder Perspectives in Implementation. Dr. Quanbeck is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health within the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine & Public Health. This toolkit contains information on how people make decisions, and how common decision-making biases… Read more »
Dr. Margaret “Gretchen” Schwarze and Anne Buffington from the Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Research Program (WiSOR) recently published Question Coding Schema: A Toolkit to Count and Categorize Questions During Surgical Consultation. The toolkit is a measurement tool for characterizing the number and types of questions patients and family members ask during surgical consultations. It enables researchers… Read more »
Dr. Maureen Smith, Director of Health Innovation Program at UW School of Medicine and Public Health recently published the Health Innovation Program DRG Categories toolkit. The goal of this toolkit is to categorize the readmission of patients discharged to a SNF from an inpatient stay by grouping those patients into diagnosis-related group (DRG) clusters based… Read more »
UW Primary Care Academics Transforming Healthcare (PATH) collaborative was featured in an American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) news article highlighting their recently published article titled “A Simple Framework for Weighting Panels Across Primary Care Disciplines.” Read the AAFP article and interview with co-author Dr. Sandra Kamnetz here.
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are an issue of public health importance, as approximately 722,000 people are afflicted by an HAI every year (1 in 25 hospitalized patients) and 75,000 people with HAIs die. Daily bathing treatments with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) for hospitalized patients is one evidence-based intervention targeting HAIs. However, it is often challenging to implement… Read more »
Mammography screening is essential for early detection of breast cancer. However, guidelines vary on recommendations about the age and interval at which women should start receiving mammograms. These conflicts arise from analysis of various observational studies and clinical trials that compared the benefits and harms of different screening recommendations, and drew variable conclusions. To better… Read more »
The PROKids team, led by Elizabeth Cox, MD, PhD, received new NIH funding to develop standard guidance for the use of pediatric PROMIS metrics in ambulatory clinical populations. In collaboration with leadership from prominent child health advocacy organizations and delivery systems nationally, as well as other PROMIS experts and the Institute for Clinical and Translational… Read more »
HIP collaborates annually with the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ) to sponsor a learning event on topics of current importance to health in Wisconsin. This year’s event will showcase several national and state models that are successfully expanding access and integrating behavioral health services into primary care settings. HIP Investigator Rachel Grob will be… Read more »
The Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Research Program (WiSOR) recently released a new tool on HIPxChange, the Shared Decision Making Repository, to enable researchers and clinicians to easily locate and sort through a large collection of current literature on shared decision making instruments and avoid performing redundant literature searches. The tool compiles and catalogs over 70 qualitative… Read more »