News & Events

• News

  April 30

  Electronic Health Records Help Researchers Harness Data

  Issue 3, April 2012
  
  EHC Inside Track
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Emerging initiatives funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)’s Effective Health Care Program are exploring how electronic health records (EHRs) and their connections to other databases can be used by scientists to conduct comparative effectiveness research. The projects will establish and enhance computerized clinical data systems to address limitations encountered in observational studies and in randomized controlled trials. For example, while well-designed trials may yield valid conclusions, their findings are based on studies of highly selected groups of patients. Therefore, their conclusions can rarely be generalized to real-world clinical practice.
  
  Read More >> http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/insidetrack/#art1
  

  April 28

  Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care has released Medicare spending data for 2009

  The data are available for two adjustment levels: age, sex and race only, and age, sex, race and price.
  
  The data can be found on the website: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/data/topic/topic.aspx?cat=21
  

• Upcoming Events

  May 21

  CHASE Works-in-Progress - 3pm to 5pm in room H670

  Speaker: Jeffrey R. Harris, MD, MPH, MBA; Professor, UW Department of Health Services; Director, Health Promotion Research Center
  
  Christian D. Helfrich, MPH, PhD; Implementation Research Coordinator, VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative on Ischemic Heart Diseases; Research Assistant Professor, UW Department of Health Services
  
  Topic: The science of dissemination and implementation: What it is; why it’s important; and some examples of how it’s done
  
  Time: 3pm - 5pm
  
  Room: Health Sciences Bldg. H670

  May 18

  Harborview Injury Prevention Research Center, Works-In-Progress

  Speaker: Jeffrey G. Jarvik, MD, MPH - Professor of Radiology and Neurosurgery, University of Washington, Director, Comparative Effectiveness, Cost and Outcomes Research Center
  
  Topic: Lumbar Image Reporting with Epidemiology
  
  Time: 9:30-10:30am
  
  Location: HIPRC Conference Room (Pat Steele Bldg. 401 Broadway, Suite 4075

  May 14

  CHASE Works-In-Progress - 3pm to 5pm in H371 (Health Sciences Building)

  Speaker: Sarah Ringold, MD, MS, K12 Scholar - Rheumatology, Seattle Children's Hospital
  
  Topic: Integrating PRO's into our national registry of children with rheumatic diseases
  
  Time: 3-4pm
  
  Speaker: Josh Carlson, PhD, MPH, K12 Scholar - Assistant Professor, UW Department of Pharmacy
  
  Topic: Aligning Genomic Testing with Patient and Physician Preferences in NSCLC (AGENT-P)
  
  Time: 4-5pm
  
  Adobe Connect instructions:
  Go to http://confer.uw.edu/deptpharm .
  Login as a guest. Type your name into the field and click Enter Room.
  Click the Request Entry button.
  
  To join the call, dial 1-800-379-6841 Participant Code: 394654
  

  May 11

  CANCELLED: Harborview Injury Prevention Research Center, Works-In-Progress

  Speaker: Ryan Hansen, PharmD, PhD, RPh
  Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program, UW
  
  Topic: Sedative Hypnotics and Motor Vehicle Crashes
  
  We will discuss the findings of a cohort study evaluating the association between three sedative hypnotic medications and motor vehicle crashes in the Group Health Cooperative population.
  
  Time: 9:30am - 10:30am
  
  Location: HIPRC Conference Room (Pat Steele Bldg. 401 Broadway, Suite 4075)

  April 27

  Harborview Injury Prevention Research Center, Works-In-Progress

  Speaker: Lorri A. Lee, MD - Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, UW
  
  Topic: Utilizing National Databases of Complications for Case Control Studies
  
  Determination of risk factors for rare, but high severity complications is typically too costly
  for prospective studies, and may lack power in retrospective studies when limited to single or
  multiple institutions. A unique study design will be presented to study these rare events.
  
  Time: 9:30am-10:30am
  
  Location: HIPRC Conference Room (Pat Steele Bldg 401 Broadway, Suite 4075)

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