Health Systems Research

We believe health systems deserve to be healthy as well – committed to value, data transparency, and employee wellness.

Our experts work as health system leaders that help translate science into results that improve patient lives.

Healthcare access

• Patient navigators improve rates of colonoscopy
  • This project showed a 30% increase in colonoscopies through incorporation of patient navigators to encourage patients who are higher than usual risk for cancer.
  • Patient navigation after positive fecal immunochemical test results increases diagnostic colonoscopy and highlights multilevel barriers to follow-up
  • PI: Dr. Folasade P. May
  • Source of funding: UCLA Melvin and Bren Simon GI Quality Improvement Program

High and low value care

• Understanding situations when colonoscopies may not be useful
  • Our team found that 18% of colonoscopies ordered in our health system might not beneficial. This can be used to develop ways to reduce the ordering of unnecessary procedures and making colonoscopy more accessible to those who really need it.
  • Leveraging electronic health records to measure low-value screening colonoscopy
  • PI: Dr. Folasade P. May
  • Source of funding: UCLA Value Based Care Research Consortium

Physician burnout

• Describing burnout among hepatologists involved in liver transplantation
  • Our team found that 40% of transplant hepatologists experience burnout and highlighted multiple factors, such as workload, that can be optimized to improve their wellness.
  • Burnout among transplant hepatologists in the United States
  • PI: Dr. Arpan A. Patel
  • Source of funding: American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases