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CareMore's Togetherness Program Addresses a Symptom of Living With Chronic Illness: LonelinessCareMore's program is a first-in-industry approach to targeting loneliness as a health condition that can be diagnosed and treated through community-based interventions and close engagement with patients.
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Care Coordination to Increase Referrals to Smoking Cessation Telephone Counseling: A Demonstration ProjectAn intervention to increase tobacco treatment rates through care coordination for telephone counseling was effective in raising referral rates and in achieving excellent long-term abstinence.
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Worksite Medical Home: Health Services Use and Claim CostsThis study examined the relationship among availability of an on-site, employer-provided primary care medical home, and health services use and health plan costs.
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Characteristics Driving Higher Diabetes-Related Hospitalization Charges in PennsylvaniaDiabetes-related hospital charges are driven by complications, hospital misadventures, procedures, and other patient and discharge characteristics. Readmission charges are not different from initial admission charges.
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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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Value-Based Payment in Implementing Evidence-Based Care: The Mental Health Integration Program in Washington StateValue-based payment improved fidelity to key elements of the Collaborative Care Model—an evidence-based mental health intervention—and improved patient depression outcomes in Washington state.
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A Meta-analysis Update: Percutaneous Coronary InterventionsMeta-analyses of percutaneous coronary interventions in stable coronary artery disease are updated to include 2 recent large randomized controlled trials.
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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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Managed Care and Cancer Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries With DisabilitiesThis study showed better outcomes for disabled Medicare patients with breast cancer but not those with lung cancer when they were enrolled in HMOs.
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Collaborative DTM Reduces Hospitalization and Healthcare Costs in Patients With Diabetes Treated With PolypharmacyDrug therapy management implementation in 2 health plans resulted in significant cost savings and modest to significant reductions in emergency department visits and inpatient admissions among patients with diabetes.
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Using Sequence Discovery to Target Outreach for Diabetes Medication AdherenceSequence discovery techniques identified sequences of events that led to gaps in diabetic therapies and were used to identify outreach opportunities aimed at improving medication adherence.
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The Potential Impact of CAR T-Cell Treatment Delays on SocietyTreatment 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.
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Association of Physician Coordination With Interfacility Transfer Acceptance TimelinessThe authors reviewed physician-to-physician conversations during emergency transfer of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and found that higher-quality physician coordination was associated with faster time to acceptance.
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Expanding Coverage for Essential Care During COVID-19The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic will exacerbate the financial situations of the millions of Americans who struggle to afford their medical care, but policy solutions are available to quickly mitigate this problem.
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Claims-Based Risk Model for First Severe COPD ExacerbationA health insurance claims-based risk assessment tool to predict patients’ first severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation has been developed and validated.
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Impact of Medical Homes on Quality, Healthcare Utilization, and CostsPatient-centered medical home practices provided better preventive care and disease management with less resource utilization than practices not pursuing PCMH status.
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Optimizing Enrollment in Employer Health Programs: A Comparison of Enrollment Strategies in the Diabetes Health PlanAn automatic enrollment strategy for health insurance programs may not only increase the total number of enrollees but may also decrease some enrollment disparities.
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Dialing In: Effect of Telephonic Wellness Coaching on Weight LossSmall weight loss was reported by overweight/obese individuals targeted for telephonic wellness coaching in this large retrospective study using pre-post design.
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Physician Factors That Influence Patient Referrals to End-of-Life CareThis study used multivariate models to identify physician specialty and comfort with end-of-life discussions, both of which are associated with end-of-life referrals.
