Study results indicate that outreach interventions performed by trained student pharmacists assist Medicare beneficiaries to effectively navigate their Part D benefit, thereby reducing out-of-pocket costs.
To promote future partnerships among colleges of pharmacy and accountable care organizations, this article describes several initial challenges to partnership formation, including those related to agenda setting and resource utilization.
There is no significant association between unfavorable patient satisfaction and opioid reductions for chronic pain, but encounters with unestablished providers may slightly impair satisfaction when reducing opioids.
Availability of electronic health records among advanced practice nurses and physicians in California is concentrated among large practices with fewer Medicaid patients.
In this longitudinal comparative effectiveness study of different chronic disease self-management support approaches within 1 system, both pharmacist- and nurse-led patient-centered medical home approaches improved diabetes care.
Examination of factors associated with discharge lag time and how this metric plays an important role in managing hospital throughput.
To address the lack of standards in public reports of provider performance, the authors outline a model to ensure the integrity and transparency of reports.
Study Finds African Americans Less Likely to See Obesity as Harmful to Quality of Life
Cervical cancer screening underuse and overuse occur commonly in clinical practice and identifiable patient and physician factors can be targeted for quality improvement.
Small increases and decreases in pharmacy copayments have little influence on patients’ switching to generic drugs or on improving adherence to medication regimens.
A limited distribution network is a pharmaceutical distribution strategy that some drug companies have capitalized upon to obstruct generic and biosimilar competition.
This article highlights the work of the National Oncology Working Group (NOW) Initiative.
Bruce A. Feinberg, DO; Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, MS, MBA; Thomas Ollis, MS, RPh; and Joseph Mikhael, MD, discuss the future treatment landscape for the management of multiple myeloma.
Clinical pathways have been emphasized as a means to deliver efficient, quality care and to ensure better outcomes at lower costs. The Oncology Medical Home takes this to the next, more comprehensive, step of quantifying and improving quality and value in cancer care while lowering overall costs.
To promote future partnerships among colleges of pharmacy and accountable care organizations, this article describes several initial challenges to partnership formation, including those related to agenda setting and resource utilization.