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tzer, MD, MPH, MA

Latest:

Value-Based Payment in Implementing Evidence-Based Care: The Mental Health Integration Program in Washington State

Value-based payment improved fidelity to key elements of the Collaborative Care Model—an evidence-based mental health intervention—and improved patient depression outcomes in Washington state.


Kelly J. Hunt, PhD, MSPH

Latest:

Differential Impact of Mental Health Multimorbidity on Healthcare Costs in Diabetes

Assessment of prevalence and specific costs associated with discrete multimorbid mental health disease clusters in adults with diabetes.


Niccie L. McKay, PhD

Latest:

Determinants of Diagnostic Imaging Utilization in Primary Care

We examine and quantify patient and physician factors that affect the utilization of outpatient imaging by primary care physicians caring for adult patients.



Joshua J. Nubla, PharmD

Latest:

Patient Satisfaction Surveys: A Continuous NCODA Initiative for Improvement Within the Oncology Dispensing Practice

NCODA presents findings from over 700 patient responses across the country to determine patient satisfaction over 4 categories: time, convenience, staff interaction, and overall satisfaction.


Tsofia Eilat-Tsanani, MD

Latest:

Quality of End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients: Does Home Hospice Care Matter?

Palliative principles were applied to the care of more HH patients than non-HH patients, but no differences were found in their utilization of healthcare services.


Ira Feldman, MPS

Latest:

Enhanced Care Coordination Improves HIV Viral Load Suppression Rates

Enhanced care coordination in New York City that leveraged surveillance data with a health plan’s Medicaid managed care roster improved its HIV viral load suppression rate.


Deo S. Bencio, BS

Latest:

Medicaid Beneficiaries With Congestive Heart Failure: Association of Medication Adherence With Healthcare Use and Costs

Higher medication adherence among Medicaid beneficiaries with congestive heart failure was associated with lower healthcare utilization and lower costs, and the relationship to costs was graded.





James M. Naessens, ScD

Latest:

Impact of Advance Care Planning Consults on Advance Directives Completion

Implementing advance care planning consults can increase advance directive completion rates. The authors demonstrate the impact of consults on completed advance directives in the medical record.


Jeffrey P. Laux, PhD

Latest:

Patients Discharged From the Emergency Department After Referral for Hospitalist Admission

Hospitalization is costly and associated with the potential for adverse medical events. Hospitalists are uniquely positioned to help avoid unnecessary emergency department admissions through consultation.




Patricia Lin Fu, MPH

Latest:

Reference-Based Pricing: An Evidence-Based Solution for Lab Services Shopping

Reference-based pricing combined with employer education and an online shopping tool significantly improved members' utilization of lab services at or below the reference price



Jean Abraham, PhD

Latest:

High-Risk Centers and the Benefits for Lower-Risk Transplants

There does not appear to be any comparative advantage for low-risk hematopoietic cell transplantation patients to seek care from high-risk centers.





Xinke Zhang, MS

Latest:

Cost Per Response Analysis of Strategies for Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenia

This decision tree model estimates the cost per response and incremental cost per additional responder for romiplostim, eltrombopag, and “watch and rescue” for immune thrombocytopenia.


Sharon Davis, MPH

Latest:

Guideline-Based Peer-to-Peer Consultation Optimizes Pegfilgrastim Use With No Adverse Clinical Consequences

Active expert peer-to-peer consultation with prescribing oncologists can promote adherence to guidelines and lead to cost reductions without risk of neutropenic fever, with or without hospitalization, for patients with cancer.



Judith A. Ricci, ScD, MS

Latest:

Prescriber Compliance With Black Box Warnings in Older Adult Patients

Elderly patients prescribed drugs with a drug-laboratory black box warning (BBW) had lower rates of prescriber BBW compliance than patients prescribed drugs with a drug-disease warning.


Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes, RD, CDE

Latest:

CHAPTER 3. Guideline for Detection and Management of Diabetes in Pregnancy

From the Adult Diabetes and Clinical Research sections, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts




Victoria M. Rizzo, PhD

Latest:

Effectiveness of Care Coordination and Health Counseling in Advancing Illness

This prospective trial suggests that specialized care coordination and health counseling for patients coping with advanced stages of 4 life-limiting illnesses can be beneficial.


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