Initiatives

Please take a moment to review some of our recent grants and current initiatives.

Grants

  • Reducing Pre-Operative Testing for Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery (Funder: NIH/NIA)
  • An Electronic Health Record-based Intervention to Reduce Low-value Antipsychotic Prescriptions among Older Adults with ADRD (Funder: NIH/NIA)
  • Machine Learning to Guide Diuresis Dosing for Patients with ADRD (Funder: DGSOM)
  • U.S. Deprescribing Research Network (Funder: NIH/NIA)
  • Examining the role of race/ethnicity in low-value (avoidable) hospital admissions during the Covid-19 pandemic (Funder: Covid-19 Health Equity and Disparities DGSOM)
  • Leveraging EHRs to Measure and Reduce Harmful, Low-Value Care Among Older Adults (Funder: NIA Beeson Emerging Leaders K76 Career Development Award)
  • Identifying Approaches to Measure and Reduce Harmful, Low-Value Care for Older Americans with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (Funder: NIH/NIA)
  • Pragmatic Trial to Reduce Unnecessary and Potentially Harmful Preoperative Care in Virginia (Funder: Arnold Ventures)
  • UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) (Funder: NIH/NCATS)
  • Pragmatic Trial of an Electronic Health Record/Behavioral Economics Intervention to Reduce Pre-operative Testing for Cataract Surgery (Funder: NIH/NIA)
  • EHR Intervention to Reduce Anti-psychotic Medication among 0lder Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease and its Related Dementias (Funder: NIH/NIA)
  • Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research IV/Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly IIl (RCMAR IV/CHIME IIl) (Funder: NIH/NIA)
  • Multi-ethnic Multi-Level Strategies and Behavioral Economics to Eliminate Hypertension Disparities in LA County (Funder: NIH-National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
  • UCOP Population Health/UCLA Healthcare Value Analytics and Solutions (UVAS) Collaboration (Funder: Systemwide Funded Research Grant)

Current Initiatives

  • Evaluation of Machine Learning Risk Model to Improve Care Coordination for High-risk Patients (Partnership with UCLA OPHAC)
  • Natural Experiments in Telemedicine due to COVID-19 at UCLA Health (Partnership with UCLA Department of Medicine Quality Team, Greater Los Angeles VA, and OPHAC)
  • Colonoscopy overuse at UCLA Health, Long-term PPI appropriateness at UCLA Health, Low-value care in EGD for GERD patients at UCLA Health (Partnership with UCLA Digestive Diseases)