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Shirley Cohen-Mekelburg, MD, MS

Latest:

Distinct Health Care Use Patterns of Patients With Chronic Gastrointestinal Diseases

Patients with complex chronic disease can be grouped by varying propensity for health care continuity patterns, which could be harnessed to personalize health care utilization interventions.


Haihong Hu, MS

Latest:

Increasing Hepatitis C Screening in a Large Integrated Health System: Science and Policy in Concert

The success of recommendations to improve screening often rests on the availability of efficacious therapies, coverage policies, and other factors that enable and justify screening.




Michael R. Shainline, MS, MBA

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Optimizing Number and Timing of Appointment Reminders: A Randomized Trial

Two text message or phone reminders were more effective in reducing missed primary care appointments than a single reminder, particularly in patients at high risk of missing appointments.





Felicity B. Enders, PhD

Latest:

Flunking Asthma? When HEDIS Takes the ACT

Asthma control, rather than compliance with the HEDIS asthma measure, is the most useful quality indicator of asthma care.


Tushar Sharma, MD

Latest:

Telemetry: Appropriateness of Initial Assignment and Duration in Nonintensive Setting

The authors report overutilization of telemetry monitoring in a community setting, increasing the cost of health care and potential harm to patients with unnecessary interventions.


Timothy G. Ferris, MD, MPH

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Physician-Initiated Payment Reform: A New Path Toward Value

Physician groups have begun designing alternative payment models for their own specialties, proposing that CMS include financial risk, funding for new technologies, and legal waivers.


Christopher A. Nicita, MBA

Latest:

Characteristics of and Trends in the Late-stage Biopharmaceutical Pipeline

Research on characteristics of the biopharmaceutical pipeline and on changes since 2003 includes a description of new features and recommendations for health policy decision makers.



Shira H. Fischer, AB

Latest:

Quality Measurement of Medication Monitoring in the Meaningful Use Era

Shifting from claims to integrated electronic health records to calculate quality metrics will improve reported quality attributable to data capture changes, not true quality improvements.


Amy W. Baughman, MD, MPH

Latest:

Medical Home Transformation and Breast Cancer Screening

Breast cancer screening may not improve in early medical home implementation.



Sandhya K. Rao, MD

Latest:

The Evolving Role of Subspecialties in Population Health Management and New Healthcare Delivery Models

This article explores the role of subspecialists in new care delivery models and argues compensation should recognize the range of ways subspecialists provide value to populations.




Albert G. Crawford, PhD

Latest:

A Predictive Model of Hospitalization Risk Among Disabled Medicaid Enrollees

Predictive modeling can be used to identify disabled Medicaid beneficiaries at high risk of future hospitalizations who could benefit from appropriate interventions.


Yuhua Bao, PhD

Latest:

Medicare Coverage of Buprenorphine-Naloxone Film Surrounding Generic Entry

Medicare plans are replacing brand-name buprenorphine-naloxone film with its generic equivalents, resulting in a decrease in out-of-pocket cost faced by enrollees with opioid use disorder.



Alexandra R. Brown, BA

Latest:

Employer-Led Efforts to Improve the Value of Health Spending

Findings from a systematic review show that employer-led efforts to date have produced few promising strategies for improving the value of health spending.



Inga Aksamit, RN, MBA

Latest:

Rates of Guideline Adherence Among US Community Oncologists Treating NSCLC

US community oncologists treating NSCLC were significantly more likely to be guideline adherent when providing first-line rather than adjuvant treatment.


Thomas E. Feasby, MD

Latest:

Automated Patient Assessments After Outpatient Surgery Using an Interactive Voice Response System

Using an interactive voice response system to contact patients after outpatient surgery will likely result in improved efficiency without a decrease in assessment quality.



David Keschner, MD, JD

Latest:

Low-Value Care for Acute Sinusitis Encounters: Who's Choosing Wisely?

Acute sinusitis is a common acute illness and offers an opportunity to eliminate low-value care. The authors describe current practices, comparing primary care, urgent care, and the emergency department.


Hillary R. Bogner, MD, MSCE

Latest:

Measuring Concurrent Oral Hypoglycemic and Antidepressant Adherence and Clinical Outcomes

Self-reported adherence tended to overestimate medication adherence compared with electronic monitoring. Electronic monitoring of oral hypoglycemic agents but not self-reported adherence predicted glycemic control.

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