Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications places a heavy burden on healthcare budgets in China and will continue to do so.
Many programs attempting to effectively treat high-need, high-cost individuals have not been able to lower spending, improve outcomes, or increase satisfaction. This paper suggests 8 attributes that many successful programs share.
Benefits of a patient-centered multimorbidity care management program occurred early, and were evident only among patients with depression and unfavorable medical control of diabetes and heart disease.
Regardless of the cause of bias, more awareness and scrutiny are needed when utilizing cost-effectiveness studies for healthcare decision making.
The authors examine the origin, benefits, and challenges of pragmatic clinical trials to assess the ultimate value of this research design.
Results for Truxima, recently launched in the United States, and complement inhibitors were presented at the 61st American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition.
Offering home fecal immunochemical tests to eligible patients during influenza vaccination clinic increases colorectal cancer screening rates.
A technology-based, pharmacist-run home blood pressure monitoring program improves health outcomes by investing $20.50 per mm Hg systolic blood pressure lowered and $3300 per life-year gained.
An overview of the FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence-a collaborative approach to the clinical approval process.
The authors report the experience of one of the first Southern US communities to develop a comprehensive health care data repository for tracking processes and outcomes of care and identifying areas of greatest need.
Routine preoperative MRSA screening of cardiac surgery patients could provide substantial economic value to third-party payers and hospitals under a wide range of circumstances.
Using data from a nationwide registry, this study revealed significant variation in the use and cost of contemporary regimens for colorectal cancer.
A randomized controlled trial found that plain-language, illustrated medication lists improved medication understanding among Latinos.
Racial/ethnic minorities are disproportionately at risk for adverse health and financial consequences due to lower health insurance literacy compared with white enrollees.
Use of live attenuated influenza vaccine in young children has a favorable benefit-risk profile.
Compared with Japan, the United States has substantially less geographic variation in surgical outcomes, but it has higher variation in cost.