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With support from a $1.4 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a team of U-M researchers led by Christopher Friese, Ph.D., R.N., M.A., M.S., professor of nursing, and Milisa Manojlovich, Ph.D., R.N., associate professor of nursing, will investigate clinician communication processes and technologies and how they may influence safe chemotherapy administration. The researchers will work in collaboration with the Michigan Oncology Quality Consortium (MOQC), directed by Jennifer Griggs, M.D., M.P.H., a professor of hematology/oncology and health management and policy, and a co-investigator on the grant, which is the first R01 to work with the MOQC platform.

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Having major surgery comes with many risks, including problems that can crop up hours, days or even weeks after the patient leaves the operating room. These complications can be deadly, or require far more care in the hospital and beyond before the patient recovers. A new study shows just how much that care can cost, in the hospital and beyond.

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One of the earliest widespread applications of precision medicine in cancer care is helping patients and physicians decide whether chemotherapy is needed, a new study finds. Researchers looked at a test available to help assess the risk of breast cancer recurrence and whether chemotherapy is likely to help lower that risk in women with early stage disease. The idea is to avoid chemotherapy in those women at such low risk that they aren't likely to benefit from it and to ensure chemotherapy is recommended for women with higher risk. The idea of precision medicine is to give patients the treatments that are the most likely to help and avoid needless side effects," says study author   Christopher Friese, Ph.D., R.N,, M.A., M.S. a professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.

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Nia Heard-Garris, M.D., U-M clinical lecturer of pediatrics and communicable diseases, penned an article for The Conversation around her concern as a pediatrician regarding acts of vicarious racism experienced by African Amercians, especially in light of increased media scrutiny. Vicarious racism traditionally refers to experiencing racial discrimination indirectly through close contacts, such as family members and peers. Heard-Garris also lays out actions steps parents can take, such as seeking mental health care, talking to children in an age-appropriate way, gauging their knowledge and dispelling rumors or heightened fears, discussing concerning behavior with a child's pediatrician or primary care provider, and monitoring and limiting exposure of violent events on TV, radio, internet and social media.

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Glaucoma medications work ---- if people take them. But an evidence review found at least half of glaucoma patients do not take their prescribed medications, putting older adults at higher risk for causing a car accident or potentially losing their sight. "Just telling people to take their medications isn't working. We've been doing that for years," says IHPI member Paula Anne Newman-Casey, M.D., M.S., a specialist in glaucoma, cataract and anterior segment disease at the University of Michigan's Kellogg Eye Center.

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The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) called on more than 100 leading researchers, scientists, and policy makers from across the United States to provide expert guidance on 19 priority focus areas for U.S. health policy. Several IHPI members and leaders from the IHPI's National Advisory Board co-authored papers for the initiative. Contributing U-M IHPI members include Mark Fendrick, M.D., professor of internal medicine, and Julia Adler-Milstein, Ph.D., associate professor of information, and IHPI National Advisory Board members include David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., president and chief executive officer, Commonwealth Fund, Lewis Sandy, M.D., M.B.A., F.C.P., executive vice president, clinical advancement, UnitedHealth Group, and Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., senior fellow, Project HOPE.

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