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Michelle Brauer, BS

Latest:

The Potential Impact of CAR T-Cell Treatment Delays on Society

Treatment delays limit the social value generated by chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for the treatment of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.


James M. Dupree, MD, MPH

Latest:

Validation of a Claims-Based Algorithm to Characterize Episodes of Care

The Michigan Value Collaborative has created a claims-based algorithm that categorizes claims into episode components. This manuscript describes the validation of this algorithm.






Sarah Ono, PhD

Latest:

Medical Homes Require More Than an EMR and Aligned Incentives

Primary care teams implementing medical homes experience professional role confusion and interpersonal conflict, and require effective administrative leadership to ensure success during this transition.


Roderick S. Hooker, PhD, MBA, PA

Latest:

Office Procedures for Older Adults by Physician Associates and Nurse Practitioners

The authors probed Medicare Part B data to explore outpatient clinical procedures performed by physician associates and nurse practitioners and report the trends from 2014 through 2021.


Carlos Lavernia, MD

Latest:

Robotic Arm–Assisted Knee Surgery: An Economic Analysis

Compared with manual total knee arthroplasty, patients younger than 65 years undergoing robotic arm–assisted total knee arthroplasty experience fewer days in hospital, less utilization of services, and lower average total costs at 90 days.




Christopher A. Harle, PhD

Latest:

Performance of 2-Stage Health-Related Social Needs Screening Using Area-Level Measures

Limiting health-related social needs screening to lower-income areas would reduce screening burdens; however, this study found a 2-stage screening approach based on geography to be suboptimal.




Jacob W. Dembosky, MPM

Latest:

Patient-Reported Denials, Appeals, and Complaints: Associations With Overall Plan Ratings

Patient ratings of plans and care were lower among beneficiaries filing complaints or reporting denied care. Appeals did not further predict ratings, but successful complaint resolution did.


Christopher H. Mathis, JD, MPA

Latest:

The Arkansas Payment Improvement Initiative: Early Perceptions of Multi-Payer Reform in a Fragmented Provider Landscape

Arkansas has implemented multi-payer payment reform incorporating both episodic and Patient-Centered Medical Home models. Early perceptions of a sample of stakeholders were largely positive to date.


William T. Lester, MD, MS

Latest:

Population-Based Breast Cancer Screening in a Primary Care Network

A health information technology system designed to facilitate population-based breast cancer screening increased mammography rates in overdue women beyond rates achieved with office-based reminders alone.




Kit N. Simpson, DrPH

Latest:

A Longitudinal Examination of the Asthma Medication Ratio in Children

This longitudinal examination of the asthma medication ratio in a national sample of children has determined the predictive accuracy of a rolling 3-month ratio.


Jie Zheng, PhD

Latest:

Hospitals’ Strategies to Reduce Costs and Improve Quality: Survey of Hospital Leaders

Hospitals pursue a broad range of efforts to improve quality, with those participating in bundled payments attempting to reduce postacute care to a greater degree than nonparticipants.


Fadia T. Shaya, PhD, MPH

Latest:

Patient-Centered Teamwork in Care Transitions

Physician-led patient care teams have the potential to impact care transitions to prevent fragmentation of care, and ensure seamless care delivery.


Kate Berry, MA

Latest:

How Health Insurance Providers Are Tackling Social Barriers to Health

When people are healthier, care is more affordable for everyone. For the healthcare industry, it is a common-sense decision to confront nonmedical factors that affect people’s health so dramatically.


Annie Lintzenich Andrews, MD, MSCR

Latest:

A Comparison of Administrative Claims–Based Risk Predictors for Pediatric Asthma

A comparison of claims-based asthma risk predictors in a national sample of children with Medicaid determines accuracy and informs risk predictor choice.


John Edelsberg, MD, MPH

Latest:

Benefits and Risks of Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine in Young Children

Use of live attenuated influenza vaccine in young children has a favorable benefit-risk profile.


Joseph A. Crawley, MS

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.



Kathryn Steckowych, PharmD

Latest:

Analysis of 2016 Connecticut ACO Medicare Shared Savings Program Data to Identify Opportunities for Population Health Pharmacist Services

Publicly reported Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organization (ACO) data can be analyzed to identify cost and medication-related quality performance improvement opportunities to support pharmacist integration into ACO population health services.


Iris I. Wei, DrPH

Latest:

VHA Pharmacy Use in Veterans With Medicare Drug Coverage

Greater Medicare managed care benefit levels reduce both the likelihood and magnitude of Veterans Health Administration pharmacy use by Medicare dually enrolled veterans.


Keiki Hinami, MD, MS

Latest:

Potential Role of Comanagement in Rescue of Surgical Patients

Medical comanagement of patients who had perioperative complications was associated with lower mortality, suggesting that comanagement may facilitate effective rescue.

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