New Research Explores Shared Decision Making with Patients and Drivers of Overuse Boston, MA—Dr. Lauren Taylor, a general surgery resident at the University of Wisconsin, won this year’s Best Abstract Award at the Lown Institute annual conference, May 5-7 in Boston. This year’s research symposium focused on two main themes: drivers of over-testing and -treatment […]
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5th Annual Lown Conference combines research and social action in effort to create a health care system that is patient-centered, universal, and cost-effective Boston, MA—“Health is not a market commodity,” says Jeffrey Sachs, world-renowned economist and keynote speaker at the 5th annual Lown Institute Conference, which took place May 5-7 at the Boston Marriott Quincy. […]
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March 16, 2017 (Boston, MA)—Clinicians, researchers, patient advocates, trainees and policymakers will address the ineffective, wasteful and unsafe practices within the U.S. health system at the 5th Annual Lown Institute Conference, Beyond the Bottom Line: Defending the Human Connection in Health Care. The conference takes place May 5-7 at the Boston Marriott Quincy.
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January 9, 2017 (London)— A five-part series of papers on medical underuse and overuse, commissioned by The Lancet, and led by the Lown Institute in Boston, calls for health policy makers and providers to take urgent action and expand research to tackle underuse and overuse together, factors leading to widespread poor health care across the globe. The papers, titled The Right Care Series, are authored by 27 international experts and are available online and at a special all-day launch event at King’s College London today.
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December 2, 2016 (Boston, MA)–More than 20 percent of respondents to an informal study conducted by the Right Care Alliance*, a grassroots network of clinicians, patients and community leaders affiliated with the Lown Institute, indicated that access to medical care was their greatest health care worry.
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November 9, 2016 (Washington, DC)—Vikas Saini, MD, president of the Lown Institute, is testifying today at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s public hearing against the proposed industry marketing of unapproved uses of approved or cleared medical products, citing patient safety concerns.
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September 21, 2016 (Boston, MA) – Physicians, nurses and other clinicians have known for generations that listening is the bedrock of good health care. But these days, finding time to listen fully to a patient’s history and concerns has become nearly impossible, a trend that’s more than just frustrating. It’s dangerous. That’s why the Lown Institute has teamed up with more than a thousand clinicians, as well as members of the public, to promote listening during the second annual national Right Care Action Week, October 16-22.
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April 14, 2016 (Chicago)—Joanne Lynn, MD, believes major changes are necessary to care for the growing population of Americans who are living longer, many who are experiencing multiple chronic conditions and progressive disabilities.
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April 14, 2016 (Chicago)—The Lown Institute today announced at its 4th Annual Conference, at the JW Marriott Chicago, that applications from chief residents are now being accepted for the second Right Care Educator program, an initiative designed to encourage clinicians to improve patient care by exploring and eliminating the drivers of medical overuse and promoting appropriate care for patients.
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April 14, 2016 (Chicago)—The recent rise in physician burnout and suicides compelled Nneka Sederstrom, PhD, MPH, FCCP, last year to investigate moral distress with the support of a Right Care Alliance Young Innovator grant, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her findings add to the growing body of evidence demonstrating the inextricable and bi-directional link between medical overuse and physician burnout.
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