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- Can we talk?
As a health services researcher, I know the toll society pays when we fail to help patients talk about and plan for eventualities like end-of-life care. Surveys show most Americans would prefer to die peacefully at home—and a recent study shows increasingly more are doing so. But the same study also reports that in their last three months, more patients are being hospitalized—and more often in intensive care units.
- Local heroes: CCHE helps communities show measurable change
CCHE is meeting the challenge of skyrocketing demand for community health evaluation, which is driven by several factors. Rising interest in CCHE services also comes from the national trend toward “place-based” programs that address local health issues.
- 2 spine surgeons are 3 times safer than 1
A new team approach has improved safety—reducing rates of major complications by two thirds—for complex spinal reconstructive surgery for spinal deformity in adult Group Health patients at Virginia Mason Hospital & Seattle Medical Center.
New online care from dietitians helps control weightOverweight Group Health patients with hypertension benefit from ‘pocket dietitian’
- Flu season never ends for Group Health researchers
Although this year’s flu season is pretty typical, we’re seeing more hospitalizations of people under age 65 than normal, probably because H1N1 is the predominant virus and it affects younger people more than other flu strains.
- Greatest hits: How Group Health research changed the world in 2013
How did Group Health research influence care in the real world? Whether our results made an immediate splash or rippled out more gradually, our year-end review shows our work is improving health outcomes, practice, and policy—at Group Health and beyond
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Our Seattle offices sit on the occupied land of the Duwamish and by the shared waters of the Coast Salish people, who have been here thousands of years and remain. Learn about practicing land acknowledgment.