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Primary Care Video and Telephone Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Treatment and Follow-up Health Care UtilizationTelephone visits may offer a simple and convenient option to address patient primary care needs without raising safety concerns.
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Cost-Effectiveness of Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine Among Healthcare Workers During an Influenza PandemicPneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination of healthcare workers during an influenza pandemic is cost-effective from a societal perspective but not from a hospital perspective without external subsidy.
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Cost-Related Barriers to Care Among Near-Poor Beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage vs Traditional MedicareAmong near-poor Black and Hispanic individuals, Medicare Advantage was associated with increased vision care and some, although not uniform, reductions in access disparities vs traditional Medicare.
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Comorbidities and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Older Breast Cancer SurvivorsEffective management of the comorbidities of diabetes and hypertension may increase survival in older breast cancer survivors.
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Claims Identification of Patients With Severe Cancer-Related SymptomsThe authors established a claims-based mechanism for identifying patients with lung cancer with more severe patient-reported cancer-related symptoms who could benefit from engagement with health care programs.
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Patient-Centered Medical Home Features and Expenditures by Medicare BeneficiariesAnalysis of the impact of individual features of the patient-centered medical home care model on future healthcare expenditures among Medicare beneficiaries.
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Change in Claims-Based Diabetes Medications Is a Diabetes Improvement IndicatorWithout clinical information, a decrease in use of medications can serve as a proxy for clinical improvement.
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Performance Measurement for People With Multiple Chronic Conditions: Conceptual ModelThe Performance Measurement for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions conceptual model can facilitate development and refinement of quality measures for a medically complex population.
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ED-Based Care Coordination Reduces Costs for Frequent ED UsersResults of our pilot randomized controlled intervention involving emergency department (ED)-based care coordination and community health workers demonstrated a trend toward fewer ED visits, fewer hospitalizations, and lower costs among intervention patients.
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Impact of Medical Care Coordination Intervention on Patient ActivationThis observational evaluation compared an adult medical care coordination intervention with usual care and found that the intervention was associated with significant improvements in patient activation.
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Effect of Multiple Chronic Conditions Among Working-Age AdultsMultiple chronic conditions among working-age adults lead to high costs over many years. Understanding how to effectively manage such patients is an important challenge.
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Impact of a Pharmacy-Based Transitional Care Program on Hospital ReadmissionsPatients receiving postdischarge care from pharmacists had a 28% lower risk of readmission at 30 days and a 31.9% lower risk at 180 days compared with usual care.
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Effective Implementation of Collaborative Care for Depression: What Is Needed?Factors most important for successful implementation of collaborative care for depression differ for patient activation versus achieving remission; both are critical to program success.
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Pilot-Testing a New Program for Providing Personalized and Patient-Centered Preventive CareProgram that enhances personalized and patient-centered preventive care at a busy inner-city primary care clinic may be associated with improved health outcomes.
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Lynch Syndrome Screening Implementation: Business Analysis by a Healthcare SystemThis study synthesized published evidence on Lynch syndrome screening and expanded that evidence to match the decision needs of internal decision makers.
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Turnover Among New Medicare Advantage Enrollees May Be Greater Than PerceivedEnrollees who join Medicare Advantage undergo significant turnover in the years following enrollment.
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Hospital Readmission Among Participants in a Transitional Case Management ProgramCostly new breast cancer therapies augment the significant burden this disease places on healthcare resources, but in context they may still provide value to society.
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Impact of Cost-Sharing on Treatment Augmentation in Patients With DepressionHigher patient cost-sharing is associated with a lower likelihood of treatment augmentation in patients with depression who are treated with antidepressants.
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Inpatient Electronic Health Record Maintenance From 2010 to 2015In the 6 years following inpatient electronic health record (EHR) implementation, an average of 2.5 significant EHR changes per day were made for maintenance and improvement.
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Health System Correlates of Receipt of Radiation Therapy After Breast-Conserving Surgery: A Study of Low-Income Medicaid-Enrolled WomenOmission of radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery leads to poor outcomes. Geographic isolation and scarcity of healthcare specialists correlate with low adjuvant radiation therapy use.
