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Dani L. Zionts, MScPH

Latest:

Beyond Satisfaction Scores: Exploring Emotionally Adverse Patient Experiences

This study explores the causes of emotionally adverse patient experiences in cancer care and presents a taxonomy for analyzing free-text patient data.



Amy Compton-Phillips, MD

Latest:

Clinical Outcomes and Healthcare Use Associated With Optimal ESRD Starts

Optimal end-stage renal disease (ESRD) starts were associated with lower 12-month morbidity, mortality, and inpatient and outpatient utilization in an integrated healthcare delivery system.


Christopher B. Forrest, MD, PhD

Latest:

Medication, Diagnostic, and Cost Information as Predictors of High-Risk Patients in Need of Care Management

Predictive models from diagnostic or medication data identify care management candidates who are more amenable to clinical interventions than groups identified using prior cost alone.





Ahva Shahabi, PhD

Latest:

Cost Variation and Savings Opportunities in the Oncology Care Model

Geographic variation in cancer treatment spending reveals that chemotherapy and hospital inpatient care may offer opportunities for savings for practices participating in the Oncology Care Model.



Patricia Kipnis, PhD

Latest:

Factors Associated With Persistent High Health Care Utilization in Managed Medicaid

Schizophrenia, chronic pain, and multiple medical diagnoses at enrollment into a large managed Medicaid system are associated with long-term high health care utilization.


Machelle D. Wilson, PhD

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Health Information Technology Adoption in California Community Health Centers

This study examined the adoption of health information technology-electronic health records, health information exchange, and patient engagement-by California state community health centers.


Richard A. Rosiello, MD

Latest:

Adherence to Inhaled Corticosteroid Use and Local Adverse Events in Persistent Asthma

This study evaluated the association between patient-reported and medical record–abstracted local adverse events and patient-reported and claims-based adherence to inhaled corticosteroid therapy.




Patrick J. F. Killinger, MA

Latest:

Effect of Multiple Chronic Conditions Among Working-Age Adults

Multiple chronic conditions among working-age adults lead to high costs over many years. Understanding how to effectively manage such patients is an important challenge.


Barbara E. Lewis, PhD

Latest:

Impact of Compliance With Proton Pump Inhibitors on NSAID Treatment

Patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease who are compliant with proton pump inhibitor therapy stay on NSAIDs longer than noncompliant patients.


Rachel C. Woods

Latest:

Diabetes Care Quality: Insurance, Health Plan, and Physician Group Contributions

Reporting physician group performance in addition to health plan performance may stimulate greater improvement in diabetes care.


Mary F. Rank, RN, FNP

Latest:

Prevalence of Osteoporosis in Men in a VA Rehabilitation Center

Men in a VA rehabilitation unit who had osteoporosis were older and thinner, but otherwise similar (metabolic and functional status) to control subjects.


pez-Garrig&oacute

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Managing Inappropriate Requests of Laboratory Tests: From Detection to Monitoring

This study shows automatic, practical, simple, and effective strategies designed in the laboratory, in consensus with requesting clinicians, to improve laboratory test appropriateness.


Taylor Ballenger, MD

Latest:

Testing of a Tethered Personal Health Record Framework for Early End-of-Life Discussions

Pilot testing demonstrates the use of a novel, personal health record—based framework used in primary care settings may improve presence and quality of advance care planning documentation in the electronic health record.


Peter Lee, BS

Latest:

Evaluation of the Quality Blue Primary Care Program on Health Outcomes

Implementation of the Quality Blue Primary Care program in Louisiana was associated with a shift in primary care delivery and reductions in overall cost.


Dennis Meletiche, PharmD

Latest:

Reconsidering the Economic Value of Multiple Sclerosis Therapies

Availability of multiple sclerosis (MS) therapies provides substantial value to the currently healthy (who may contract MS in the future), particularly when treatment is fully covered by insurance.


Ann Hanson, BS

Latest:

Are Benefits From Diabetes Self-Management Education Sustained?

Conventional individualized diabetes self-management education resulted in sustained improvement in self-efficacy and diabetes distress. Short-term improvements in A1C, nutrition, and physical activity were not sustained.



Elizabeth Montgomery, BS

Latest:

Leveraging Patient Activation to Improve Kidney Health in High-Risk Patients

Frequency of patient-provider conversations and patient activation are the 2 most significant predictors of a high-risk patient’s behaviors to prevent kidney disease.


Ashley R. Bergeron, MPH

Latest:

Impact of Electronic Prescribing on Medication Use in Ambulatory Care

Both potential benefits and unexpected consequences were found as a result of the rollout of electronic prescribing.


Kendall Cortelyou-Ward, PhD

Latest:

To Report or Not Report Health Care Data Breaches

This study presents information regarding the decisions that health care privacy officers make about reporting a data breach, including factors that can affect the decision process, such as personal/organizational knowledge, prior breach status, and framed scenarios.


Gil Haugh, MS

Latest:

A Health Plan's Investigation of Healthy Days and Chronic Conditions

Linking administrative claims to health-related quality of life measured in Healthy Days provides a new vision into the health of populations.



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