

Michael Parchman
263 posts

@DrMParchman
Family physician, Senior Scientific Investigator at the MacColl Center @MacCollCenter and Kaiser Permanente WA Health Research Institute @KPWaResearch.







This decision should absolutely NOT be seen as one of cowardice. The danger of military metaphors around cancer is that inaction can interpreted as weakness. This is not a man surrendering but rather bravely facing his own mortality. You have my utmost respect, Sir #JohnMcCain




Our new piece with @ytsugawa1 published in HBR @HarvardBiz highlights important limitations of centralized financial and behavioral insights to improve quality: leaders must mind local culture to make durable change #localism @UCLA_GIMHSR hbr.org/2018/06/gettin…






Insights into culture change by @jnmafi "the key to culture change may be ongoing sense-making conversations btw clinician peers & team members about...potential for harm from overused services & deidentified...rates of use of these services" @BMJ_Qual_Saf qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/27/5/3…


So happy to share our systematic mixed studies review of the roles and functions of community health workers in primary care led by my colleague @andreahartzler published in @AnnFamMed annfammed.org/content/16/3/2… #sdoh @MacCollCenter @KPWaResearch