Tanabe Featured in AHRQ News Article

Paula Tanabe was recently featured in a news article entitled "Improving Treatment and Care Processes for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease" published on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) website. 

Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), an inherited red blood cell disorder, often have intense pain that brings them to hospital emergency departments (EDs) for immediate treatment. Their care can be fragmented, with frequent hospitalizations and specialist care, little follow-up with primary care doctors, and repeat ED visits. 

Until recently, providers did not have evidence-based guidelines to help them effectively manage SCD patients’ care.  Today, some of these challenges to improving patient outcomes and care processes are being overcome, thanks to the work of AHRQ-funded researcher, Paula Tanabe, Ph.D., R.N.