Leah Tuzzio
Group Health Research Institute
47 Papers
217 Citations
Leah Tuzzio is an academic researcher from Group Health Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 40 publications. Previous affiliations of Leah Tuzzio include Kaiser Permanente & Group Health Cooperative.
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Papers
A framework for making patient-centered care front and center.
TL;DR: The proposed framework is designed to enable any health system to identify ways in which care could be more patient-centered and move toward a goal of making it a "systems property."
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Disparities in indigenous health: a cross-country comparison between New Zealand and the United States.
TL;DR: Although differences in national health sector responses exist, New Zealand may be well placed in the future to evaluate the effectiveness of new strategies to reduce these disparities given the extent and quality of Maori-specific health information available.
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Improving modern cancer care through information technology
TL;DR: A review of the challenges of delivering well coordinated, patient-centered cancer care in a complex modern healthcare system and of selected work that is underway to improve communication, coordination, and quality of care is provided.
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How do urban African Americans and Latinos view the influence of diet on hypertension
TL;DR: Focus groups with African American and Latino patients treated for hypertension found clinician-recommended diets difficult to follow in the context of their family lives, social situations, and cultures, suggesting the importance of culturally sensitive approaches to dietary improvements.
The influence of travel time on breast cancer characteristics, receipt of primary therapy, and surveillance mammography.
Tracy Onega,Andrea J. Cook,Andrea J. Cook,Beth Kirlin,Xun Shi,Jennifer Alford-Teaster,Leah Tuzzio,Diana S. M. Buist +7 more
TL;DR: The travel time does seem to influence the type of primary therapy among women with breast cancer, suggesting that women may prefer low frequency services, such as mastectomy, if geographic access to a radiology facility is limited.