Posted January 29th, 2021 for Group Health CATALyST scholars Linnaea Schuttner, Maggie Ramirez, and Yates Coley KPWHRI’s K12 scholar program is accepting letters of interest from early-career scientists to train in learning health systems research Health systems face many challenges in consistently delivering high-quality, safe, patient-centered, equitable, and affordable care. In the past year, the pandemic and ensuing economic crisis have stressed health systems to the brink and have brought a heightened focus on undoing systemic racism in health care and reducing health inequities. The health systems most capable of meeting these daunting challenges are
learning health systems (LHS) those that actively engage in real-time learning, drawing on the latest evidence, relevant data, and the engagement of stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, and health system leaders. Through partnerships between research and care delivery, LHS research delivers
Covid-19 patients are doing their own research
Citizen science, the name given to a range of scientific projects in which patients participate, covers myriad experiences.
(Bloomberg)
Amy Dockser Marcus
, The Wall Street Journal
To advance scientific knowledge of the disease, lay people are organizing to generate data about their experiences
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A month after her Covid-19 diagnosis last March, Lisa McCorkell wanted to know why she was still struggling with a cough, shortness of breath and other debilitating symptoms. Her doctors didn’t have answers, so she and a group of other Covid patients took matters into their own hands. They formed a research group on a Slack channel and launched their own study.
A daily alcoholic drink for women or two for men might be good for heart health, compared to drinking more or not drinking at all. But while there is some evidence that drinking in moderation might prevent heart attacks, now a randomized, double-blinded clinical study of 100 heart patients has added a new wrinkle to the contours of the debate over alcohol and heart disease.Â
UC San Francisco researchers found that alcohol has an immediate effect on the heart in patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib), the most common life-threatening heart-rhythm disorder.Â
In the study, published online Jan. 27, 2021, in the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Clinical Electrophysiology, electrical properties that drive the muscles of the heart to contract changed immediately in patients who were randomly assigned to an infusion of alcohol maintained at the lower limit of legal intoxication, compared to an equal number of control subjects who instead received a placebo infusion
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