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Background Young adults have the lowest rates of blood pressure control compared to older adult age groups. In the United States, over 10 million young adults (1 in 5 men; 1 in 6 women) have hypertension, increasing their risk of heart failure, stroke, and chronic kidney disease. Young adults with hypertension have a higher lifetime… Read more »

Employee, Manager, and Organization Surveys on Breastfeeding Support in the Workplace Issues faced by breastfeeding mothers in the U.S. Despite the many health benefits that breastfeeding offers to both infants and mothers, the rate of mothers who continue to breastfeed their infants for the recommended 12 to 24 months remains low in the United States.… Read more »

  About the Mammo OUTPuT tool The optimal age to initiate breast cancer screening is a source of substantial debate in health care policy, which can lead to uncertainty for healthcare administrators and clinicians seeking to create policies for their organizations. Part of the current dilemma is that the guidelines from major organizations on breast… Read more »

Background Many frail older adults receive burdensome treatments near the end of life that may be inconsistent with their values and goals. We believe improved communication and partnership between surgeons, patients and families can help patients make treatment decisions based on what is important to them. To promote shared decision making in high-stakes decisions, researchers… Read more »

About the Toolkit Stakeholders can provide invaluable feedback in all stages of the patient-centered outcomes research process. Stakeholder engagement can occur at any stage of the research trajectory and can take a variety of forms. Blended stakeholder boards include the diverse perspectives of patients and other populations (which can include hard-to-reach populations like minorities and… Read more »

What is HARPS? How to Approach Recruiting and Retaining Patient Stakeholders: An Engagement Guide (HARPS) is a set of planning materials for researchers and others who want to engage patient stakeholders as advisors on research projects, including patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). HARPS contains the following materials: The roadmap, a fillable workbook that uses 10 guiding… Read more »

About the training The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) defines “engagement in research” as: “The meaningful involvement of patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders throughout the research process—from topic selection through design and conduct of research to dissemination of results. PCORI believes that such engagement can influence research to be more patient centered, useful,… Read more »

Preventing Opioid Prescription Theft and Ensuring Secure Transfer of PHI during Transitions from Hospital to Nursing Homes The goal of this toolkit is to help hospital systems that serve vulnerable populations to improve care coordination and post-discharge outcomes when patients transition from the hospital and into a nursing home setting. Despite the well-documented negative outcomes… Read more »

This site contains several resources to help clinicians publish the results of their quality improvement work within healthcare organizations. UW Health and the Health Innovation Program partnered to create the site based on the SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) Guidelines, Maintenance of Certification requirements, and A3 guidelines for conducting quality improvement projects. The… Read more »

About SA3MPROTM Childhood asthma is a common, chronic pediatric condition, affecting 6.3 million children. Morbidity from childhood asthma adversely affects school performance, with 1 in 2 children reporting school absences due to asthma each year. These asthma related absences influence academic achievement, leading to decreased levels of reading proficiency and increased risk of learning disabilities.… Read more »

About PRISM: A survey for adolescents and parents to identify diabetes self-management barriers It is estimated that over 165,000 children under age 20 have type 1 diabetes, and the number of cases has been increasing over time. Due to the multi-faceted approach that is typically needed to manage diabetes, it is difficult for children and… Read more »

About the Surgical Question Prompt List intervention To improve patient engagement in surgical decision making, we need to bridge the gap between patients’ need to make the consequences of surgery relevant to their lives and the surgeon’s goal of setting realistic expectations. Question prompt lists have proven efficacy in other settings and aim to empower… Read more »