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Joan Carles Contel, MPH

Latest:

Predictive Model for Emergency Hospital Admission and 6-Month Readmission

Predictive models for hospital admissions and readmissions in persons aged >65 years have been developed through a combination of comorbidity and previous healthcare use.



Wansu Chen, MS

Latest:

Step-Up Care Improves Impairment in Uncontrolled Asthma: An Administrative Data Study

Significant clinically meaningful improvements in asthma impairment are documented by administrative data for 1 year after initiation of step-up care in patients with uncontrolled asthma.






Natalie D. Erb, MPH

Latest:

Faster by a Power of 10: A PLAN for Accelerating National Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices

The authors identify a 4-step plan to accelerate the spread of evidence-based practices.





Christina L. Hoffman, MS

Latest:

Areas of Addressable Friction for the Adoption of Greater Healthcare Affordability: Insights from US Physicians

Based on an analysis of Medscape Business of Medicine data, we identify 5 specific areas of friction for the success of payment reform efforts.




Nikki M. Carroll, MS

Latest:

Pharmaceuticals From Development to Practice: Learnings From an Online Curriculum

This article summarizes the outcomes from a pilot online curriculum on off-label prescribing, appraising pharmaceutical information, and talking with patients about advertised medications.



Tom O'Dowd, MD

Latest:

Psychological Family Intervention for Poorly Controlled Type 2 Diabetes

A family-based intervention targeting negative and/or inaccurate illness perceptions in patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes was effective in improving glycemic control.






Kirsten E. Stoner, PhD

Latest:

Baseline and Postfusion Opioid Burden for Patients With Low Back Pain

Patients with low back pain have a high opioid burden, which increases following spinal fusion surgery; 27% of fusion patients filled opioid prescriptions at least 12 months post surgery.


Jared Kaltwasser

Latest:

COVID-19 Risk Remains High for Patients With Hematologic Malignancies

Among patients with hematologic malignancies who were diagnosed with COVID-19, about one-quarter experienced critical illness, and most of those patients died.


John C. Butler, MD

Latest:

It Is Time to Ask Patients What Outcomes Are Important to Them

Patients with abdominal or back pain identified 21 outcomes important to them, but the reported outcomes are quite different from the symptom and function outcomes studied by researchers.



John V. Cox, DO, MBA, FACP

Latest:

Transformation

Journal of Oncology Practice (JOP) and The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC) join efforts to highlight work focusing on issues affecting payers and providers.


Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, president

Latest:

No Longer a Unicorn: Improving Health Through Accountable Care Organizations

Accountable care organizations can play a key role in building a Culture of Health in which every person in America can have the healthiest life possible.


Nick C. Patel, PharmD, PhD

Latest:

Relationship of Diabetes Complications Severity to Healthcare Utilization and Costs Among Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries

This retrospective cohort study in a Medicare Advantage population posits that type 2 diabetes mellitus complications pose an excess burden on healthcare resource use and related costs.



Peter Cunningham, PhD

Latest:

Health Plan Switching and Satisfaction in a Medicaid MLTSS Program

Health plan dissatisfaction was higher among Medicaid managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS) beneficiaries who did not follow through with an intention to change health plans.

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