Rapid Response of an Academic Surgical Department to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Patients, Surgeons, and the Community
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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
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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
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https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01588 Joanne Spetz appointed as the inaugural Brenda & Jeffrey L. Kang Presidential Chair in Healthcare Finance
April 30, 2020
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
April 22, 2020
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,... Ensuring and Sustaining a Pandemic Workforce
April 15, 2020
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
April 14, 2020
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.
April 13, 2020
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...