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BOSTON, MA – Across the United States, millions of individuals face serious, life-limiting illness like cancer, heart disease and stroke, respiratory disease and diabetes. The final year of life with serious illness can be filled with emotional distress and uncertainty about treatment options. When people with serious illness have conversations with their doctors and nurses… Continue reading New study on Serious Illness Care Program underscores significant benefit of more, better, and earlier conversations between clinicians and patients

BOSTON – The U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world, with spending projected to rise by more than five percent each year through 2026, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. What can be done to turn the tide?    Rhode Island may have a solution. Researchers from Ariadne… Continue reading Price controls and increased primary care lower healthcare spending, according to new study

At dawn on the fifth day after Christine Poland was admitted to the hospital, a doctor and team of nurses and midwives approached her bed. Having been up all night from yet another labor induction treatment, Poland was emotionally and physically drained. The doctor, she says, told her the latest treatment had failed and to… Continue reading Birth right: Health care experts convene to analyze tactics for bettering safety and dignity during childbirth

Dr. Joanna Paladino’s commitment to palliative care runs deep. As a palliative care physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she has initiated meaningful conversations with patients facing a serious illness about what matters most to them. She’s coached other clinicians on doing the same by using the Serious Illness Conversation… Continue reading Ariadne physician-researcher aiming to improve serious illness care receives prestigious grant

FEBRUARY 4, 2019 BOSTON – A targeted effort to make hospital cesarean delivery rates transparent and understood by women increased their awareness of this important quality measure, but did not drive them to choose hospitals with lower rates, according to a new study. The randomized controlled trial of 18,293 women was published Monday in the… Continue reading Study finds campaign to educate women on hospital C-section rates does not change their choice of hospitals

With 2.5 million new research articles published annually, clinicians cannot possibly stay abreast of every new discovery. Moreover, those in resource-limited settings can be geographically and professionally isolated and lack access to the latest educational tools. These clinicians also care for some of the largest, sickest patient populations in the world. They must know and… Continue reading Ariadne Labs Welcomes the Better Evidence Project

For immediate release: Monday, November 5, 2018 BOSTON – Time, flexibility and engagement are the keys to successfully implementing patient safety initiatives at scale, according to new recommendations published today for policy makers at the hospital, hospital association, state and national levels. The recommendations emerge from a new study published in Health Affairs Monday of… Continue reading Study offers recommendations for scaling patient safety initiatives

At the Global Conference on Primary Health Care and the Declaration of Astana, a series of brief country case studies on various Primary Health Care (PHC) reforms over the past four decades were completed and published.  The Ariadne Labs Primary Health Care team collaborated with our partners and the WHO to support the development these… Continue reading Newly Published WHO Case Studies on Primary Health Care Share Global Lessons in PHC