New tool for early identification of COVID-19 surges
Kaiser Permanente develops a simple method to help hospitals and communities identify early signs of a large community spread of infectious diseases.
Making predictions during a pandemic
Permanente physicians have played a key role in developing forecasting and surveillance information to help Kaiser Permanente plan for hospital space, staffing, and supply needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kaiser Permanente leaders describe capabilities to suppress COVID-19 in NEJM Catalyst
In an article published this week in NEJM Catalyst, Kaiser Permanente physicians and leaders acknowledge the conundrum of reopening the country for business while preventing successive waves of coronavirus infection, and describe the next strategic phase in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic: disease suppression.
Vincent Liu, MD, comments on Kaiser Permanente study showing global differences in COVID-19 hospitalization
Vincent Liu, MD, a specialist in critical care medicine with The Permanente Medical Group, commented on a Kaiser Permanente study that found important differences in outcomes among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the western United States and other parts of the world.
New Kaiser Permanente study provides information on coronavirus planning for health systems
A new Kaiser Permanente study of COVID-19 patients published today as a research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) provides estimates for the percentage of test-positive patients requiring hospitalization and admission to the ICU.
JAMA features viewpoint by TPMG’s Stephen Parodi, MD, and Vincent Liu, MD, on coronavirus mitigation
Stephen M. Parodi, MD, and Vincent Liu, MD, both of The Permanente Medical Group, published a peer-reviewed viewpoint online in JAMA on the urgent need for public health officials and large health care systems to move from containment to mitigation of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Pursuing questions about poorly understood killer of hospital patients
Vincent Liu, MD, MSc, discusses his research on sepsis, a stealthy killer of people of all ages who are hospitalized.
New paper outlines a roadmap for machine learning in clinical care
A group of physicians, including Vincent Liu, MD, MS, research scientist at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Northern California, recently published a roadmap for the responsible use of machine-learning-based interventions.