Community engagement in research is a concept currently gaining ground in health services research with many finding it integral to the success of their projects. And with more federal funding institutions like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) looking for that component in grant proposals, avenues for connecting […]
In an emergent setting, compilations of quantifiable data can help providers make decisions quickly and confidently about what next steps to take. Many scoring systems have been developed but have also proven unwieldy in real-life situations. Dr. Spyridon Fortis, Clinical Assistant Professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, and a team of researchers […]
Marin Schweizer, PhD, Associate Professor in General Internal Medicine and of Epidemiology, has been awarded a three-year, $959,440 Merit Award, as part of the VA’s HSR&D Investigator-Initiated Research program. Dr. Schweizer will use this grant to study how best to reduce unnecessary testing and prescription of antibiotics. She and her co-investigator, Dr. Kalpana Gupta, a […]
Cutting-edge research into how health care is delivered safely, efficiently, and with the greatest benefit to the patient has been happening at the Iowa City VA Medical Center, conducted by members of the Center for Access and Delivery Research & Evaluation (CADRE), for more than five years. Led by Director Eli Perencevich, MD, MS, and […]
The Iowa City VA Health Care System will remain one of 9 locations in the United States to offer subspecialty fellowships to physicians and nurses in quality improvement and patient safety through the VA Quality Scholars (VAQS) program. The Iowa City VAQS is directed by Hilary Mosher, MD, Associate Professor in the Division of General […]
Marin Schweizer, PhD, thinks a lot about how to make effective change stick. For about the last eight years, she has been working on ways to reduce the incidences of hospital-acquired infections (HAI), particularly those that come during and after surgeries. An Associate Professor of Internal Medicine in General Internal Medicine and of Epidemiology, Dr. […]
Dr. Mary Vaughan-Sarrazin, Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine, has been awarded a three-year, $950,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to evaluate the use of four FDA-approved anticoagulants for stroke prevention in individuals with atrial fibrillation (AF). Since 2010, dabigatran, rivaroxaban, apixaban, and edoxoban, which are collectively known as non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants (NOACs), have […]
A team of researchers led by Dr. Michihiko Goto within the VA’s Comprehensive Access & Delivery Research & Evaluation (CADRE) has just completed a study of the largest cohort of individuals infected with Staphylococcus aureus bacterium (SAB) ever. The team’s resulting article on their findings appears this week in JAMA Internal Medicine. SAB infections have […]
Dr. Eli Perencevich, Associate Chair for Clinical and Health Services Research and Professor of General Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). For more than 100 years, the ASCI has counted the most respected leaders in academic medicine in its 3,000-member body. These physician scientists from every […]