Functional status is an important predictor of an acute care readmission in patients who have had a unilateral hip fracture.
Local specialty pharmacies collaborated with a charitable assistance organization to provide a safety net and to facilitate care for patients with chronic illnesses, allowing them to focus on receiving and adhering to medication, rather than on financial toxicity.
The authors examined the association of diabetes with self-reported gaps in care coordination and self-reported preventable adverse events using data from a national sample of older adults.
This study assesses the clinical and economic implications from a payer perspective of human papillomavirus genotyping for cervical cancer screening in comparison with existing practices.
The majority of orphan drugs are subject to utilization controls in Medicare Part D plans. The use of utilization controls varies by certain drug characteristics.
Users' acceptance of electronic health record-based asynchronous alerts can negatively impact provider satisfaction, intentions to quit, and ultimately turnover.
This study examined the association between health insurance design features and choice of physical therapy or chiropractic care by patients with new-onset low back pain.
An intervention to increase tobacco treatment rates through care coordination for telephone counseling was effective in raising referral rates and in achieving excellent long-term abstinence.
This study examines the feasibility and utility of using administrative claims from commercial health plans to identify children with chronic conditions in a statewide registry.
Findings of this evaluation of primary care clinic responses in a tiered total cost of care benefit design suggest that clinics respond by reducing prices.
An examination of the asthma medication ratio (≥0.50) as an informative metric in program evaluation and for healthcare organizations to measure quality of care provided to patients with asthma.
Depression often goes unrecognized in primary care among symptomatic diabetes patients, especially in some minorities.
Race/ethnicity was not a predictor of inpatient palliative care consultation or discharge to hospice in 4 hospitals with an inpatient palliative care service.
Between 2005 and 2011, rates of cardiac catheterization laboratory false activation doubled while mean door-to-balloon times for primary PCI declined.
This study found that brand price at launch and generic entry overstates long-run average pharmaceutical costs, with and without accounting for medical cost offsets.