Publications
The Center exists in part to create original evidence and information that support and advance conversations around professionalism, value, and other health care issues.
READ about scientific publications, briefs, and reports emerging from the Center and its collaborators below.
Impact of response bias in three surveys on primary care providers’ experiences with electronic health records
Submitted on: June, 2024
Physicians in primary care spend more time documenting care than other physicians and also coordinate care for their patients with other specialists, so it is vital to have high quality data sources about how they use EHRs. In particular, it is important to find policies that maximize the benefits of EHRs while minimizing their potential to add to physicians’ burdens. Thus, in this study, we compared primary care physicians’ (PCPs’) responses to three surveys, each intended to gather information on physicians’ use of EHRs but fielded with substantially different strategies: (1) the 2021 NEHRS; (2) the 2022 Continuous Certification Questionnaire (CCQ) from the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM); and (3) the inaugural version of University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Physician Health IT Survey, which was also fielded in 2022.
Read MoreWhat Complexity Science Predicts About the Potential of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning to Improve Primary Care
- Richard A. Young
Submitted on: May, 2024
Primary care physicians are likely both excited and apprehensive at the prospects for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Complexity science may provide insight into which AI/ML applications will most likely affect primary care in the future. AI/ML has successfully diagnosed some diseases from digital images, helped with administrative tasks such as writing notes in the electronic record by converting voice to text, and organized information from multiple sources within a health care system. AI/ML has less successfully recommended treatments for patients with complicated single diseases such as cancer; or improved diagnosing, patient shared decision making, and treating patients with multiple comorbidities and social determinant challenges.
Read MoreUniversities should experiment to improve caregiver support, U.S. National Academies says New report recommends paid leave, flexible work policies, and changes in academic culture
Submitted on: April, 2024
As academic institutions are facing increasingly fierce competition for a highly skilled workforce, support for caregivers could be a key selling point, committee member Robert Phillips Jr., founding executive director of the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care, pointed out during today’s webinar. “Our universities, our science settings, could really enhance their competitiveness within the country—for funding, for success—by creating a workplace that not just accommodates caregiving, but that embraces it and makes it possible.”
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