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The UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research in partnership with the Division of Health Policy and Management in the Department of Public Health Sciences will launch a new Applied Methods Journal Club in 2025. Participants will discuss the latest innovative methods in applied health services research.

Spinal imaging for back pain may not be needed, but patients might still ask for it. A program designed to help clinicians engage patients with back pain did not help reduce imaging rates, found a study from the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research.

The Center for Healthcare Policy and Research hosted a who’s who of state and national thought leaders and physicians eager to improve the declining state of primary care.

Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research received an award to help address the opioid overdose crisis by assessing a unique emergency department service. The $1.05 million, 3-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will support an evaluation of CA Bridge, an initiative to expand medication for addiction treatment in emergency departments.   

Researchers have received a grant from the Rosenfeld Foundation to support a “whole health” approach to improve the health and well-being of heart failure patients. The grant builds on a recent Center for Healthcare Policy and Research pilot project.

A Center for Healthcare Policy and Research study focused on patients prescribed buprenorphine in emergency departments explores the effectiveness of telehealth visits in boosting long-term use of the medication for treating opioid addiction.

Led by family medicine physician Na’amah Razon, researchers are conducting a study to better understand the impact transportation and different modes of transportation have on dialysis patient outcomes.

September marks Women in Medicine Month, an annual event celebrating the significant contributions of women in the healthcare field. In honor of this occasion, we spotlight three exceptional women working with the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research.

A study by the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research explored workplace support programs during the COVID-19 pandemic and their relationship to frontline physician burnout.

UC Davis received a $1.25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to focus on health equity. Courtney Lyles, director of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, is a co-principal investigator on the grant with Center affiliate and nursing professor Leigh Ann Simmons.

Yi Zhang, a senior statistician at the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, is working to collect and analyze data from multiple California counties as part of the EPI-CAL project. The project's goal is to transform mental health care in California.

Two studies are being conducted by researchers at the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research to advance equity and improve access to hypertension treatment. Both studies are in partnership with UC San Francisco.

New guidance recommends all women get screened for breast cancer every other year starting at age 40. The recommendation issued by the United States Preventive Services Task Force comes alongside a new systematic evidence review and modeling study published in JAMA that helped inform the updated recommendations.