An analysis of nationally representative survey-based data finds that 5.2% of adults with type 2 diabetes were in remission, without bariatric surgery, at the end of the second year.
A systematic review of presenteeism instruments found that most have been validated to some extent, but evidence for criterion validity is virtually absent.
Medicare Advantage customer service supports a less healthy, higher-need population, indicating that it should be designed and staffed to effectively serve complex, high-need patients.
Self-empowering team resource management, when aided by information technology, appears to help reduce adverse drug events in primary care offices.
A continuous quality improvement program, based on Lean concepts and including architectural, managerial, and organizational features, allows the emptying of emergency department corridors and the improvement of time interval measurements/quality indicators.
When we weighted health insurance claims with a disease burden score, we were able to generate valid estimates of disability-adjusted life-years.
The new Accountable Primary Care Model delivers Triple Aim-like outcomes. This model is empirical, measurable, programmatic, scalable, and transplantable.
Disease burden estimates of pneumonia-associated hospitalizations are more sensitive when including pneumonia coded in any diagnosis field vs in only the first discharge diagnosis field.
Functional status is an important predictor of an acute care readmission in patients who have had a unilateral hip fracture.
There are opportunities for and obstacles to adding core biomedical informatics competencies to medical school curricula.
Among patients likely needing mental health care, two-thirds had no discussion or perfunctory discussion of mental health during periodic health exams.
New statin prescriptions at the Veterans Health Administration were reviewed using a cross-sectional study design. Statins were frequently prescribed outside of guideline recommendations.
The authors examined the latest trends in development, implementation, and evaluation of care pathways and the impact of the movement toward value-based care.
Factors most important for successful implementation of collaborative care for depression differ for patient activation versus achieving remission; both are critical to program success.
Electronic kiosks were used to survey patients on their experience with care at the time of care delivery in an urban primary care practice.