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Authors


Thomas E. Gant, MS

Latest:

Pilot of Urgent Care Center Evaluation for Acute Coronary Syndrome

A formal protocol for urgent care center evaluation of potential acute coronary syndrome safely precluded emergency department visits among 84% of those eligible.





Michael Cousins, PhD

Latest:

Prioritized Post-Discharge Telephonic Outreach Reduces Hospital Readmissions for Select High-Risk Patients

A randomized control study that analyzes the impact of a postdischarge prioritization case management strategy on readmissions for select high-risk patients that are commercially insured.



Sherry M. Mentor, MPH

Latest:

Identifying Favorable-Value Cardiovascular Health Services

Health improvements are usually expensive. If healthcare does not encourage high-value care and discourage low-value care, insurance premiums will continue to outpace inflation.


M. Thomas Bateman Jr, PharmD

Latest:

Linked Pharmacist-Provider New Patient Visits in Primary Care

This manuscript describes a new interdisciplinary model for scheduling new patients with a clinical pharmacist and a primary care provider to increase productivity.




Ashley Rutherford, PhD, MPH

Latest:

Data Breach Locations, Types, and Associated Characteristics Among US Hospitals

Despite the high level of hospital adoption of electronic health records and the federal incentives to do so, the most common type of data breach in hospitals occurred with paper records and films.


Marisa K. Dowling, BA

Latest:

Care Coordination Agreements: Barriers, Facilitators, and Lessons Learned

Primary care providers have developed standing agreements with other healthcare providers and community-based organizations to coordinate care. Early experiences with these agreements are discussed.



Issah Younossi, MPH

Latest:

Outcomes of Liver Transplantation by Insurance Type in the United States

Patients with publicly sponsored insurance who were listed for liver transplantation have worse wait-list and posttransplant outcomes, as shown using the US Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (2001-2017).


Nancy Perrin, PhD

Latest:

Automated Telephone Calls to Enhance Colorectal Cancer Screening: Economic Analysis

Automated telephone calls can increase colorectal cancer screening rates at a cost of about $40 per additional screen.





Adam J. Atherly, PhD

Latest:

Patient Preferences for Provider Choice: A Discrete Choice Experiment

The authors used a discrete choice experiment to analyze patient preferences for attributes of provider choice, including wait time, breadth, travel time, continuity of care, and monthly premium.


Carrie M. Davino, MD

Latest:

Effect of a Patient Panel-Support Tool on Care Delivery

A panel-support tool in a managed care setting improved the percentage of care recommendations met for patients with diabetes mellitus or cardiovascular disease.


J. Otis Smith, EdD

Latest:

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Negative Co-Payments: The CHORD Trial

This study extends value-based insurance design concepts in testing the impact on blood pressure control of rewards that provided negative co-payments for blood pressure medication.



David Grembowski, PhD

Latest:

Outcomes Among Chronically Ill Adults in a Medical Home Prototype

This study investigated healthcare quality, utilization, and costs among patients with common chronic illnesses in a patient-centered medical home prototype redesign.


Roy Pardee, JD, MA

Latest:

Primary Care Physician Resource Use Changes Associated With Feedback Reports

Implementing systemwide dissemination of feedback reports to primary care physicians in an integrated delivery system may be associated with changes in medical resource use.


Adan Z. Becerra, PhD

Latest:

Medicare Annual Wellness Visit Association With Healthcare Quality and Costs

In the context of 2 primary care physician–led accountable care organizations, Medicare Annual Wellness Visits were associated with lower healthcare costs and improved clinical care quality for beneficiaries.


Donna Dugan, PhD, MS

Latest:

Solutions for Filling Gaps in Accountable Care Measure Sets

Gaps in accountable care measure sets can be addressed efficiently using priority measure types and innovative approaches to measurement.



Jaime Davidson, MD

Latest:

Previously Unrecognized Trends in Diabetes Consumption Clusters in Medicare

Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes who are at the lowest levels of healthcare consumption often become some of the highest level consumers in subsequent years.


Jill Rubin Hummel, JD

Latest:

Impact of Medical Homes on Quality, Healthcare Utilization, and Costs

Patient-centered medical home practices provided better preventive care and disease management with less resource utilization than practices not pursuing PCMH status.


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