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Kaiser Permanente’s quest for quality improvement is at the center of a recent study published by the American Journal of Medicine.  Kaiser Permanente Southern California developed Creatinine SureNet, a program designed to ensure that patients with an abnormal kidney function measurement received a follow-up evaluation.

Innovation at KPSC Improves Detection of Diabetes-Related Eye Disease

PASADENA, Calif. – Improving colonoscopy quality through higher detection rates for a particular type of polyp may be associated with as much as a 60 percent lower lifetime risk of colorectal cancer incidence and death without increasing overall care costs, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association ...

PASADENA, Calif. – People who received a vaccination for shingles (also known as herpes zoster) but still contracted shingles had a lower risk of developing post-herpetic neuralgia (or PHN), a potentially long lasting and painful complication of the condition. The Kaiser Permanente study was published today in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. This study demonstrates that ...

Choosing Wisely When it Comes to Cancer Care

PASADENA, Calif. – Children whose mothers developed gestational diabetes by the 26th week of pregnancy were at increased risk of developing autism later in life, according to a new Kaiser Permanente study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers examined the electronic health records of more than 322,000 ethnically diverse children born ...

PASADENA, Calif. – The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) recently awarded Kaiser Permanente $14.4 million to compare strategies for active surveillance of current and former smokers to scan for potentially cancerous small growths in the lungs. Current guidelines recommend that smokers and former smokers undergo lung cancer screening, which can identify these small growths (or ...

PASADENA, Calif.   – Expanding blood pressure screenings to non-primary care settings can help identify more patients with high blood pressure, commonly called  hypertension, and could contribute to better hypertension control and management, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in The Journal of Clinical Hypertension. Researchers examined the electronic health records of 1,076,000 Kaiser Permanente ...