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Jan 8, 2025 | 
harvardlawreview.org | Michael Stein |Benjamin A. Barsky |Lisa I. Iezzoni
June 2024 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) decision in Olmstead v. L.C. holding that the unnecessary institutional segregation of people with disabilities constitutes discrimination. Olmstead established the principle that people with disabilities must receive state-funded supports in the “most integrated settings” — that is, within the communities where they live.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
harvardlawreview.org | Michael Stein |Benjamin A. Barsky |Lisa I. Iezzoni
Author Lisa I. Iezzoni Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, MSc is Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and based at the Health Policy Research Center, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Iezzoni has conducted numerous studies examining the health care experiences of persons with disability, focusing on primary, reproductive health, and cancer care. She has also explored home-based supportive services.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
harvardlawreview.org | Michael Stein |Benjamin A. Barsky |Lisa I. Iezzoni
Author Benjamin A. Barsky Benjamin A. Barsky is Associate Professor of Law at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and Consortium Advisory Board member of the UCSF-UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. Barsky’s work sits at the intersection of law, health care policy, and public health ethics.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Alan Schwartz |Lisa I. Iezzoni |Kate Higgins
Service Animals To the Editor Dr Iezzoni and Ms Higgins’ recent JAMA Insights article1 reviews the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) rules for patients, visitors, and individuals bringing service animals into health care settings. Expanding the audience to include clinicians, whose educational deficit about the ADA rules is striking, is an important first step.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Lisa I. Iezzoni
As described by Altamirano and colleagues,1 in late 2020—more than 30 years after the July 1990 signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)—researchers conducted an online anonymous survey of all 28 000 faculty, staff, students, and trainees across Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Children’s Hospital.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Benjamin A. Barsky |Michael Stein |Lisa I. Iezzoni
Over the coming decades, physicians in the US can expect to see more patients with disabilities as medical advances extend the lives of persons with complex congenital or early-onset conditions and as the population ages with a higher incidence of multimorbidities and functional impairments.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Lisa I. Iezzoni |Michael Stein
During typical office visits, practice assistants generally first measure patients’ vital signs and weight and then clinicians perform indicated physical examinations, with patients positioned on examination tables. However, due to inaccessible medical diagnostic equipment (MDE), patients with a substantial mobility disability often do not receive these routine services.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
jamanetwork.com | Lisa I. Iezzoni |Johns Hopkins
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)—the $45 billion, federal medical research agency—is considering changing its mission statement.1 Its current mission statement is as follows: “To seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.” The proposed revised mission statement eliminates language about reducing disability: “To seek fundamental knowledge about the...
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
jamanetwork.com | Dimitri A. Christakis |Lisa I. Iezzoni
The mission of the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is to make evidence-based recommendations about effective interventions to prevent disease, improve health, and extend life of people nationwide.1 Established in 1984, this independent, volunteer panel of national experts—convened by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality since 1998—rigorously examines evidence from peer-reviewed preventive medicine and primary care research.
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
healthaffairs.org | Lisa I. Iezzoni
Michael Ogg and I met on the Princeton Junction train platform on October 29, 2009, the day my first scooter wheelchair died. I had flown from Boston, Massachusetts, my hometown, to attend a meeting in Princeton, New Jersey, and the scooter stopped dead, never to roll on its own again, on the New Jersey Transit train platform at Newark Airport. Michael, who lived in Princeton Junction, saw conductors pushing me off the train and approached me, offering to help.
