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Evelyn Sarnes, PharmD, MPH

Latest:

Costs Associated With Long-Acting Insulin Analogues in Patients With Diabetes

Findings from a literature review indicate that overall costs of long-acting insulin analogues are not significantly different from those of intermediate-acting human insulin and oral antidiabetic agents.


Lillian Min, MD, MSHS

Latest:

Evaluating Alternative Methods of Comparing Antihypertensive Treatment Intensity

Medication dose captures modification of hypertension treatment intensity more precisely than medication count, and this measure should be preferred in studies that aim to improve hypertension management.



Yihe G. Daida, PhD

Latest:

Late Diagnosis of Hepatitis C Virus Infection, 2014-2016: Continuing Missed Intervention Opportunities

Late hepatitis C virus infection diagnosis points to a need for earlier screening and treatment before the onset of severe liver disease leading to high cost and diminished outcomes.


Stuart R. Lipsitz, ScD

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Geographic Variation in Medicare and the Military Healthcare System

Geographic variation in healthcare spending and utilization within the Military Health System is higher and significantly correlated with Medicare across hospital referral regions.


Jaan Sidorov, MD, MHSA

Latest:

Designing Programs for Populations with Chronic Care Needs: A Blanket or a Quilt?

Health policy must promote the ability of smaller systems to use sophisticated, rigorous, and less-than-perfect study designs to evaluate the impact of their local programs.


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Patient Assistance: Implementing Preventative Steps to Ensure Financial Wellness

An overview of patient assistance programs at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, including their innovative hospital-based explanation of benefits form, which can eliminate patient responsibilities and help expedite the turnaround times for payment processing with copay assistance.


Dean F. Sittig, PhD

Latest:

Availability of Prices for Shoppable Services on Hospital Internet Sites

Only 60% of hospitals display their cash prices and 5% display their minimum negotiated charges on their public websites; many hospitals are in violation of new federal legislation.










Susan D. Goold, MD, MHSA, MA

Latest:

Factors Influencing Primary Care Providers’ Decisions to Accept New Medicaid Patients Under Michigan’s Medicaid Expansion

In the era after Medicaid expansion, primary care providers placed importance on practice capacity, specialist availability, and reimbursement when deciding whether to accept new Medicaid patients.


Rebecca S. Lipner, PhD

Latest:

The Role of Internal Medicine Subspecialists in Patient Care Management

Most internal medicine subspecialists report the majority of their clinical time is spent in principal care or longitudinal consultative care patient management roles.



Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH

Latest:

High-Cost, High-Need Patients: The Impact of Reported Penicillin Allergy

A reported penicillin allergy was common and was associated with suboptimal antibiotic choices and increased healthcare utilization in high-cost, high-need patients.


Ariel Linden, DrPH

Latest:

A Comprehensive Hospital-Based Intervention to Reduce Readmissions for Chronically Ill Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

A hospital-based transitional care program for patients with heart failure or pulmonary disease failed to reduce 30- or 90-day readmissions or emergency department visits.


Nathalie A. Kulin, MSc

Latest:

Do Economic Evaluations of Targeted Therapy Provide Support for Decision Makers?

Economic evaluations of adjuvant trastuzumab were reviewed. Three primary shortcomings were identified including incorporation of local data and estimation and representation (visual) of decision uncertainty.



Paul F. Hughes-Cromwick, MA

Latest:

Cost-effectiveness of Telephonic Disease Management in Heart Failure

This study shows that telephonic disease management was not cost-effective in a broadly representative sample of community-dwelling patients.


Wade M. Aubry, MD

Latest:

Understanding and Improving Value Frameworks With Real-World Patient Outcomes

New value frameworks should incorporate real-world evidence that reflects patient treatment behavior, adherence to medication, and equity concerns arising from disparities in care.



Zirui Song, PhD

Latest:

Guidance for Structuring Team-Based Incentives in Healthcare

Team-based performance incentives may improve healthcare team performance, but provider organizations face a number of structural, technical, and cultural barriers to adopting them.


Kiran E. Laxman, BSc

Latest:

Impact of Bipolar Disorder in Employed Populations

This systematic review examines the impact of bipolar disorder on employee attendance and functioning at work, along with the associated economic burden to US employers.



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