Denver Health–branded graphic featuring a study on medical education and shared decision-making. The image shows three clinicians walking and talking in a hospital hallway. Text includes the study title and citation from Academic Medicine, December 2025.

Better conversations with patients are taught and practiced.

A study including #DenverHealthMedical researcher shows reflection, storytelling and structured training shape shared decision-making skills.

#Learninghealthsystem in action.

Denver Health graphic highlighting a study on fear of death in patients with severe eating disorders, with a softly blurred clinical setting and a plant in the foreground conveying a calm, reflective environment.

A new study including #DenverHealthMedical researchers explores how patients facing life-threatening medical crises understand fear, meaning and illness.

Listening to these experiences can help clinicians deliver more compassionate, patient-centered care. bit.ly/4uBYZRh

Graphic with the Denver Health logo on a blue background featuring a quote from a study published in Military Medicine (February 2026): “Veterans with chronic lung disease report unmet information needs about exposures, causes of lung disease and managing their illness. Future work should explore how to address veterans’ Serious Illness Communication needs.”

#DenverHealthMedical pulmonologist Anuj Mehta, MD, co-authored a qualitative study exploring how veterans with lung disease experience conversations about disease progression. Study revealed unmet info needs about exposures, disease cause and planning for future care. bit.ly/3Pv1qVy

Graphic featuring the study title “A Safe Step Toward Opioid Stewardship: Standardized Low-Dose Discharge Opioid Prescriptions After Minimally Invasive Outpatient Appendectomy and Cholecystectomy” with an image of a clinician writing a prescription next to a pill bottle and tablets.

💊 Safer opioid prescribing advances one study at a time.

A #DenverHealthMedical study found most patients used ≤3 opioid tablets after minimally invasive appendectomy or cholecystectomy.

21% used none. 4% needed a refill. bit.ly/4u4Vbro

Paramedics in red uniforms transferring a patient into an ambulance at night, representing emergency medical services and research on EMS clinician experience and trauma survival published in JAMA Surgery.

In @jamasurgery.com, higher annual trauma volume per EMS clinician was associated with lower early mortality after injury.

Findings from a national LITES/DOD cohort highlight the importance of experience in prehospital trauma care.
bit.ly/4reO25r #DenverHealthMedical

Denver Health graphic summarizing a study published in Substance Use & Addiction Journal evaluating a real-time, EHR-embedded chat tool that provides addiction medicine support to clinicians across general medical settings.

Real-time support at the point of care matters.
A #DenverHealthMedical
study evaluated an EHR-embedded chat tool that helps clinicians deliver addiction care across general medical settings. bit.ly/4jLxhN2