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Ethnic Differences in the Development of Albuminuria: The DISTANCE StudyDespite uniform access to medical care, Filipinos, blacks, and Asians with diabetes developed albuminuria at higher rates than whites.
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Implementing Effective Care Management in the Patient-Centered Medical HomeA positive deviance approach was used to identify best practices in embedding care management in patient-centered medical home team-based care processes.
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Enhancing Patient and Family Engagement Through Meaningful Use Stage 3: Opportunities and Barriers to ImplementationTwo leading US health systems attempted to implement 4 draft objectives for Meaningful Use Stage 3 within their health IT infrastructure to provide feedback on needed enhancements to the policy.
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Option Pricing: A Flexible Tool to Disseminate Shared Savings ContractsBy pricing options that protect providers from downside risk,health plans can more clearly evaluate different shared savings contracts and expand them to smaller providers.
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Standardization Improves Postoperative Patient Handoff Experience for Junior CliniciansStandardization of operating room to intensive care handoff with a “time-out for sign-out” process for health care providers was beneficial for junior clinicians.
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Health Systems Tackling Social Determinants of Health: Promises, Pitfalls, and Opportunities of Current PoliciesTo improve overall health, and not just healthcare, health systems require policies that fund and promote direct interventions targeting social determinants.
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Care Coordination in Accountable Care Organizations: Moving Beyond Structure and IncentivesIn order to live up to their potential, ACOs should ensure that clinical staff possess the professional skills necessary to effectively coordinate care.
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Scheduled and Unscheduled Hospital Readmissions Among Patients With DiabetesThis population-based study examines socioeconomic and clinical factors associated with scheduled and unscheduled readmissions after discharge among older patients with diabetes.
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Multicancer Detection Assays Remain Largely Elusive for Early-Stage Disease DetectionMulticancer early detection tests are revolutionizing cancer screening by using liquid biopsies to screen for multiple cancers from a single blood sample, enhancing patient outcomes by identifying cancers earlier.
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Analysis of Venous Thromboprophylaxis Duration and Outcomes in Orthopedic PatientsExtended-duration thromboprophylaxis (>14 days) for total hip replacement/total knee replacement was associated with significantly lower risk for thromboembolic and bleeding events than short-duration thromboprophylaxis.
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Lipid Profile Changes Associated With Changing Available Formulary Statins: Removing Higher Potency AgentsWith the exception of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, fasting lipid profiles were not significantly changed after higher potency statins were removed from prescription formularies.
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Statewide Data Infrastructure Supports Population Health Management: Diabetes Case StudyThe use of statewide data infrastructure is effective at identifying criteria for diabetes outreach and management at the whole-population level.
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Insurance Coverage and Diabetes Quality Indicators Among Patients in NHANESIn a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey secondary analysis, privately and publicly insured patients with diabetes were both more likely to meet quality indicators than the uninsured.
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Can Accountable Care Divert the Sources of Hospitalization?Oregon’s Medicaid accountable care organizations led to reductions in preventable hospital admissions, especially unscheduled admissions, among female beneficiaries aged 15 to 44 years.
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Molecular Testing Patterns in Metastatic Non—Small Cell Lung CancerAssessment of the timing of histologic and molecular testing indicates that testing occurred prior to treatment initiation for most patients with metastatic non—small cell lung cancer.
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Physician Utilization by Insurance Type Among Youth With Type 2 DiabetesPhysician utilization during the year before the first indication of type 2 diabetes did not differ between Medicaid-covered and privately insured youth.
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Electronic Health Record Functions Differ Between Best and Worst HospitalsPatterns of electronic health record adoption among highand low-quality hospitals indicated that high-quality institutions had far greater use of most electronic health record functions.
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Health Literacy, Preventive Health Screening, and Medication Adherence Behaviors of Older African Americans at a PCMHA health literacy study of older African Americans aimed to establish whether associations exist between health literacy and preventive health screening behaviors, disease control, and medication adherence. Check out our website’s new table/figure pop-up feature! Click on the name of a table or figure in the text to see it in your browser.
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Potential Role of Comanagement in Rescue of Surgical PatientsMedical comanagement of patients who had perioperative complications was associated with lower mortality, suggesting that comanagement may facilitate effective rescue.
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Clinical Provider Perceptions of Proactive Medication DiscontinuationA qualitative study to understand clinical providers' attitudes and beliefs about polypharmacy and their perceived barriers to and facilitators of appropriate medication discontinuation.
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Improving HCV Cure Rates in HIV-Coinfected Patients - A Real-World PerspectiveThe authors examine real-world hepatitis C virus cure rates with direct-acting antivirals among patients coinfected with HIV.
