Adult patients with diabetes who trust their provider and feel included in treatment decisions are more likely to take a newly prescribed antidepressant medication, according to our study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
The study is the largest and the first in the United States to examine the relationship between detecting adenomas and the future risk of colorectal cancers.
KP and UCSF provided genetic data on 78,000 individuals — including 55 billion bits of discrete genetic data — to researchers worldwide through a National Institutes of Health database.
Our research showed that FIT Tests (fecal immunochemical tests) detect about 79 percent of colorectal cancers. FIT tests are much simpler than a colonoscopy. Patients only have to collect a single stool sample at home and then send it to a lab for analysis.
Implementation of electronic medical records across Kaiser Permanente Northern California during the mid-2000s was linked to a significant reduction in emergency room visits and hospitalizations among nearly 170,000 diabetes patients.
