Page 4 – NCAL Research Spotlight

Empowering Data to Improve Health

July 2, 2018
Delivery Science, Health Policy, Prevention, Uncategorized
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The Division of Research's Douglas Corley will be responsible for developing and implementing a new research program in The Permanente Medical Group that will advance the creation of evidence-driven strategies to improve the delivery of health care.

Expensive Insulin Analogs Perform No Better Than Human Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes

June 23, 2018
Comparative Effectiveness Research, Diabetes, Pharmacoepidemiology, Uncategorized
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For patients with type 2 diabetes in usual practice, the use of the more expensive insulin analogs did not appear to result in better safety or better blood sugar control compared with NPH insulin.

5 Questions for…Alyce Adams

June 20, 2018
Delivery Science, Disparities, Feature, Health disparities
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Alyce Adams, PhD, tackles 5 questions about the barriers to health care among vulnerable patient populations and her motivation towards finding solutions.

Large, Diverse Study Identifies 9 New Locations in the Genome Linked with Glaucoma

June 11, 2018
Eye
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Kaiser Permanente research reveals new insights into variability in glaucoma risk within self-reported race/ethnicity groups.

Psychiatric Disorders, Stress-Related Medical Conditions, and Health Care Visits Rise Following Sexual Assault

Kaiser Permanente research provides the best evidence to date on the association between sexual assault, health disorders and healthcare use.

Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitals Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Failure

May 17, 2018
Cardiovascular, Hospital systems, Kidney disease
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Hospitalized patients who experience acute kidney injury face a 44 percent greater risk of heart failure during their first year after leaving the hospital, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study.

Greater Burden of Atrial Fibrillation Linked to Higher Stroke Risk

May 16, 2018
Cardiovascular
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Continuous heart monitoring may help physicians identify patients at higher risk and tailor treatments.

Fighting Strokes at Lightspeed

May 15, 2018
Uncategorized
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Neurologists of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Stroke FORCE team get clot-busting alteplase to patients twice as fast as the national average.

Kaiser Permanente Data Helps Create Street-level View of the Health Impacts of Air Pollution in Oakland

Google’s Street View mapping cars have been mapping more than roads lately. Outfitted with new sensors to measure traffic-related air pollution, the cars roamed the streets of Oakland to create a block-by-block map of air pollution in three neighborhoods.

Division of Research’s Theodore Levin, MD, honored for colorectal cancer screening program

May 7, 2018
Cancer, Digestive system diseases, Prevention, Uncategorized
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DOR's Theodore (TR) Levin, MD, is one of four recipients of The Permanente Medical Group's 2018 Sidney R. Garfield Exceptional Contribution Awards, for pioneering efforts to expand colorectal cancer screening.