Media Mentions & Publications
Dr. Newton named one of Prebys Foundation 2024 “Leaders in Belonging” Initiative Awardees
“Revolutionizing patient care through medical innovation…Dr. Isabel Newton fosters a healthcare environment where patients truly belong as informed participants in their care journey. Everything we do is about patient empowerment,” said Newton. “This means ensuring that every individual has access to the best medical solutions and the knowledge and support to choose them confidently.”
Endovascular Today Interviews Dr. Newton about Public Awareness of Embolization Therapies
“Public awareness of embolotherapies is poor, which is no surprise given that public awareness of interventional radiology (IR) in general is poor… The Interventional Initiative started with the production of the docuseries Without a Scalpel, which raises public awareness about minimally invasive, image-guided procedures (MIIPs). We have had excellent engagement and feedback related to the docuseries….”
Forbes Highlights the Importance of our Patient Decision Aids
“Dr. Srinivas and colleagues noted that the key was well-vetted instructional material aimed at the “sixth- to eighth-grade health literacy level.” Unfortunately, they observe that most hospitals and medical centers typically provide educational material to patients “written above the mean reading level, with readability scores that were assessed as fairly difficult or difficult.””
Interventional News Highlights Dr. Keller’s Talk on Patient-Centered Care
“Eric Keller (Stanford University, Stanford, USA) underlined how “there is more to healing than what we do with our catheters and our wires”. Keller conveyed that “patients’ perspectives of the quality of our work has a lot to do with […] how nice the facility is, our body language, tone of voice and [whether] they can get hold of you for questions and concerns”. Therefore, how a patient feels their experience with a healthcare practitioner has gone is influenced by how it is framed.”
IR Quarterly Interviews II Board Members about Informed Care
“While obtaining informed consent is necessary from an ethical and legal standpoint, it’s also a chance for clinicians to engage with their patients and build a connection, Ms. Rockwell says. Providing patient education material and being willing to educate yourself are key to the patient interaction, says Dr. Newton, who is working on a curriculum for clinicians on how to engage in compassionate consent communication with patients.”
Imaging Technology News Features our Patient Decision Aids
According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), incorporating patient decision aids (PDAs) into clinical workflows can enhance patients’ overall sense of empowerment after informed consent conversations for image-guided procedures—without requiring additional time or effort from radiologists.
Patient Engagement HIT Features our Patient Decision Aids
“Well-vetted plain-language PDAs provided before image-guided procedure consent conversations improve patients’ self-perceived understanding of the procedure and satisfaction with the conversation,” corresponding author Eric J Keller, MD, MA, from the division of interventional radiology at Stanford University in California, said in a press release.
Prospective Trials of our Patient Decision Aids Published
This prospective study included patients awaiting an interventional radiology clinic visit to discuss and obtain informed consent for an image-guided procedure. The study was conducted at two academic medical centers. The trials showed that well-vetted plain-language PDAs provided before image-guided procedure consent conversations improve patients' self-perceived understanding of the procedure and satisfaction with the conversation.
IO Learning Interviews Dr. Newton
IO Learning spoke with Isabel G. Newton, MD, PhD, Chief of Interventional Radiology at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of California, San Diego, and co-founder of the Interventional Initiative, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to engaging the public with credible and comprehensible information about minimally invasive, image-guided procedure.
The II Team Publishes a Study of Barriers to Consent in IR
“Results revealed four key barriers to adequate informed consent: limited procedural experience/knowledge by the consenting clinician, unclear division of responsibilities, inconsistent approaches to assessing capacity and surrogate decision making, and wide variation in patients’ baseline understandings.”
BackTable Podcast on Patient Decision Aids
In this episode, host Dr. Eric Keller interviews a panel of leaders from the Interventional Initiative, a not-for-profit organization devoted to raising awareness of minimally invasive image-guided procedures (MIIPs) among patients and referring clinicians. Our guests are interventional radiologists Drs. Susan Jackson and Isabel Newton and nurse and hospital administrator Margaret Simor.
Interventional News Features Dr. Keller
“Studies suggest that consent practices tend to be limited in quality and completeness across healthcare. This is important not only ethically, but because poor periprocedural communication and understanding is a common source of medical mistakes and lawsuits…. To improve consent practices, we have not only been working to develop more engaging educational resources on ideal consent practices for IR, but also better patient decision aids (PDA).”
BackTable Podcast on The Interventional Initiative
An interview with Interventional Initiative founders Isabel Newton and Susan Jackson taking us through the journey behind the awe-inspiring Without A Scalpel documentaries, including some funny stories and more exciting things to come.
The II Study Highlights Limited Public Awareness of Interventional Radiology
“65% of radiology department outpatients had no prior knowledge of IR. Of the general population surveyed, 72% could not identify an interventional radiologist as a physician. Relative annual IR-related Google search volumes peaked in 2004 and were at their nadir in 2011. After normalizing for number of practicing physicians, IR was the subject of substantially fewer Google searches than similar specialties….”