Family physician, Senior Scientific Investigator at the MacColl Center @MacCollCenter and Kaiser Permanente WA Health Research Institute @KPWaResearch.
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Exploring Learning Health Systems today reminded me of quote by Larry Green “If we want more evidence-based practice, we need more practice-based evidence.” Context of where we do research matters!
There is great strength in facing and accepting the limits of medicine, and in creating quality time for the work of leaving life: saying goodbye, legacy, symptom management, and being present.
Our new piece with @ytsugawa1 published in HBR @HarvardBiz highlights important limitations of centralized financial and behavioral insights to improve quality: leaders must mind local culture to make durable change #localism@UCLA_GIMHSR https://t.co/NYR0ozxYL1
Exercise and #depression? Greg Simon, MD, MPH, @KPWAResearch senior investigator explores how fairly low levels of exercise — just an hour a week — may have an antidepressant effect: https://t.co/9OBsLFZEBs #mentalhealthawareness#stayactive
Our paper in @bmj_latest
Much of our mental model for global health may not jive with reality:
1 Quality may be a bigger problem than access
2 Much of the care in the world by informal providers
3 Their quality is often as good as trained doctors!
https://t.co/tPTW4m7R9C
Excited to see our @frontiers paper out! From Classification to Causality: Advancing Understanding of Mechanisms of Change in Implementation Science https://t.co/JVMb9oKJLd @impscix@ImpSciUW@kpwashington@unchpm @CaraCLewis @pklasnja @Aaron_Lyon@TuzzioL @CWalshBailey @bjweiner
So happy to share our systematic mixed studies review of the roles and functions of community health workers in primary care led by my colleague @andreahartzler published in @AnnFamMed https://t.co/ZiuBCBP3cv #sdoh @MacCollCenter @KPWaResearch