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Rapid Response of an Academic Surgical Department to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Patients, Surgeons, and the Community

Elizabeth M. Lancaster, Julie A. Sosa, Amanda Sammann, Logan Pierce, Wen Shen,  Michael C. Conte, Elizabeth C. Wick

New California nurses have become jobless during coronavirus pandemic

The health care workforce landscape looks different now with elective surgeries postponed, hospitals cross training health care workers to do several jobs, and preparations put into place for surges of COVID-19 patients. “The entire health care system has become disrupted,” UCSF Professor Joanne...

Implementing Community Resource Referral Technology: Facilitators And Barriers Described By Early Adopters

Yuri Cartier, Caroline Fichtenberg, and Laura M. Gottlieb Implementing Community Resource Referral Technology: Facilitators And Barriers Described By Early AdoptersHEALTH AFFAIRS VOL. 39, NO. 4: INTEGRATING SOCIAL SERVICES & HEALTH https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01588

More nurses will needed to be freed to move into intensive care units

Joanne Spetz appointed as the inaugural Brenda & Jeffrey L. Kang Presidential Chair in Healthcare Finance

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Joanne Spetz has been appointed the inaugural Brenda and Jeffrey L. Kang Presidential Chair in Healthcare Finance, by Dean Talmadge King and simultaneously, she will immediately assume the role of Associate Director for Research at the Philip R. Lee...

How to Choose and Initiate a Novel Agent for Patients With CVD and Diabetes

While researchers originally explored sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 receptor agonists for their impact on blood glucose, the two classes of agents were unexpectedly found to have cardiovascular benefits. In this podcast, Ralph Brindis, MD, MPH,...

Now more than ever, schools are a vital resource for vulnerable communities

Ensuring and Sustaining a Pandemic Workforce

Erin P. Fraher, Ph.D., M.P.P.; Patricia Pittman, Ph.D.; Bianca K. Frogner, Ph.D.; Joanne Spetz, Ph.D.;  Jean Moore, Dr.P.H.; Angela J. Beck, Ph.D., M.P.H.; David Armstrong, Ph.D.; and Peter I. Buerhaus, Ph.D., R.N.

Patient and clinician perspectives on a patient‐facing dashboard

Patient and clinician perspectives on a patient‐facing dashboard that visualizes patient reported outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis.

The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Finally Make Telemedicine Mainstream in the U.S.

As of March 3, more than 92,000 people worldwide have been sickened by the virus that causes COVID-19, including more than 100 in the U.S. As both numbers trend upward, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned that increased person-to-person spread in U.S. communities is...