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Using CAHPS Patient Experience Data for Patient-Centered Medical Home TransformationThe Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Patient-Centered Medical Home survey assists practices by targeting improvement, standardizing care delivery, discussing best practices, improving provider-patient communication, coordinating care, and supporting patient self-management.
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Contributor: The Role of Patient Engagement in Creating Active PatientsAs health care shifts reimbursement models from fee-for-service to value-based care, new terms and phrases have been surfacing across the industry. Two of the terms emerging with increased usage are “patient engagement” and an “active patient.” But what do they mean? And why are they important?
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Implementing Clinical Informatics Tools for Primary Care–Based Diabetic Retinopathy ScreeningThe authors describe a primary care–based diabetic retinopathy screening program incorporating telemedicine, strong health information technology engagement, and development of clinical informatics tools.
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Implementing Team-Based Telemedicine Workflows in Safety-Net Primary CareTelemedicine in safety-net primary care faces particular challenges. Consistent, team-based workflows can support video visit implementation and health care maintenance in telemedicine visits.
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Using a Brief Tool to Assess Healthy School Environments: A Pilot StudyThe authors evaluated a brief assessment tool that accountable care organizations can use to help elementary schools improve student nutrition and increase physical activity.
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Diagnosis Patterns and Stress Testing Trends After Implementing High-Sensitivity Troponin AssayThis study found that switching from a conventional troponin assay to a high-sensitivity troponin assay resulted in changes to diagnosis patterns and stress testing trends.
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Patient Value Co-creation Behavior Scale Based on the DART ModelThis study aimed to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of a scale measuring patient value co-creation behavior based on the DART (Dialogue, Access, Risk assessment, Transparency) model.
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Premium Tax Credits in the American Rescue Plan and Off-Marketplace EnrolleesWe estimate that the median 2021 premium tax credit for off-marketplace enrollees in California would be $311 if they switched to marketplace plans, with wide variation by age and plan size.
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Fixed-Duration Epcoritamab Is Active, Safe in Older Patients With Newly Diagnosed LBCLEpcoritamab-bysp showed a 69% objective response rate and 62% complete response rate in older patients with large B-cell lymphoma who were ineligible for anthracycline-based therapy.
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Burden of EPS in Commercial Patients With Schizophrenia Initiating Atypical AntipsychoticsThis study investigated the 1-year incidence of extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS), as well as the incremental economic burden, in patients with schizophrenia initiating atypical antipsychotics.
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Economic Burden of Nonadherence to Standards of Diabetes CareUsing propensity score matching in a US nationally representative sample, authors found the effect of nonadherence to diabetes guidelines on health care expenditures of patients with diabetes.
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A Scoping Review of US Insurers’ Use of Patient-Reported OutcomesThis scoping review found 350 articles that discuss US health insurance providers’ use of patient-reported outcomes about health-related quality of life.
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Incidence and Cost of Potentially Avoidable Emergency Department Visits for UrolithiasisThis study characterizes the incidence and associated factors of urolithiasis-related emergency department visits that are potentially preventable with appropriate ambulatory care and calculates their cumulative costs.
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mCRC Treatment Access: IRA Cost Cap Impact and Final InsightsMedical experts discuss how the Inflation Reduction Act’s out-of-pocket prescription drug cost cap, effective in 2025, may impact access to oral chemotherapy options for metastatic colorectal cancer.
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Rising Use of Surveillance Colonoscopy and Potential ImpactsThe proportion of colonoscopies performed for postpolypectomy surveillance has increased significantly, particularly among older patients with limited life expectancy, raising concern for possible overuse.
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The Relationship Between Provider Age and Opioid Prescribing BehaviorHolding other factors constant, the authors find that older providers prescribe significantly more opioids, with the gap between older and younger providers increasing from 2010 to 2015.
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Proactive Care Management of AI-Identified At-Risk Patients Decreases Preventable AdmissionsProactive care management for artificial intelligence (AI)–identified at-risk patients reduced potentially preventable hospital admissions.
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Variation in Early Diffusion of Sacubitril/Valsartan and Implications for Understanding Novel Drug DiffusionRates of sacubitril/valsartan diffusion have been slow and there has been significant geographic variation, highlighting the importance of local prescribing patterns in early drug diffusion.
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Reducing Low-Value Care Is a Feasible Approach to Enhancing Access and Affordability of High-Value Care for Older AmericansThe authors advocate for a strategy that reallocates the substantial workforce effort and financial resources currently devoted to low-value care to enhance access and affordability of high-value services.
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Advancing Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Research in the Asia-Pacific RegionSarah Anderson, oncology strategy lead director, Novotech, discusses the significance of triple-negative breast cancer research in the Asia-Pacific region, and the importance of clinical trial diversity in this region.
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Premium Tax Credits in the American Rescue Plan and Off-Marketplace EnrolleesWe estimate that the median 2021 premium tax credit for off-marketplace enrollees in California would be $311 if they switched to marketplace plans, with wide variation by age and plan size.
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Care Fragmentation Predicts 90-Day Durable Ventricular Assist Device OutcomesThis analysis evaluates the relationship between hospital care delivery network fragmentation and in-hospital and 90-day outcomes. These networks may be novel targets for improving outcomes.
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Understanding Physicians’ Work via Text Analytics on EHR Inbox MessagesThis study leverages text analytics to identify work themes managed by primary care physicians in their electronic health record (EHR) inbox messages and inform managers on workflow redesign.
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Considerations to Increase Rates of Breast Cancer Screening Across PopulationsAuthors from the Community Oncology Alliance and Avalere Health present data that show breast cancer screening rates recovered more slowly among some racial/ethnic groups following on the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Teamwork Enhances Patient Experience: Linking TEAM and Net Promoter ScoresIn 1386 providers, better teamwork related to higher patient Net Promoter Score (NPS), and the relationship between provider experience and NPS was mediated by teamwork.
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Sacubitril/Valsartan in Medicare Alternative Payment ModelsOptimizing utilization of sacubitril/valsartan for treatment of heart failure could improve provider performance in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative and the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
