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Yelena Rozenfeld, MPH

Latest:

Oral Antidiabetic Medication Adherence and Glycemic Control in Managed Care

In this retrospective study of patients with diabetes, adherent patients were more likely to achieve glycemic control than nonadherent patients.


Mark Sostek, MD

Latest:

Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Utilization, and Costs of Chronic Opioid Treatment for Non-Cancer Pain in the United States

Healthcare utilization and costs increased in the 6 months after patients started opioid therapy for chronic pain; they then decreased but never reverted to baseline levels.


Jean-Christophe A. Leveque, MD

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Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes and Satisfaction for Quality Assessments

Understanding the relationships among patient-reported outcomes, satisfaction, and quality is the first step in drawing meaningful conclusions that can then be translated into policy.




Paula H. Song, PhD

Latest:

Implications of Eligibility Category Churn for Pediatric Payment in Medicaid

Analyses of Ohio Medicaid claims data from 2013 to 2015 reveal that instability among eligibility categories is common and affects average capitation but not health service use.


Deron Galusha, MS

Latest:

Process of Care Compliance Is Associated With Fewer Diabetes Complications

Adherence to process of care measures was associated with reduced risk of 2 diabetes complications or any of 4 complications in a national industrial cohort.


Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD, FACP

Latest:

Examining the Reality of What Insulin Costs Do to Patients

The editor-in-chief of Evidence-Based Diabetes Management™ introduces the special issue, Perspectives on Insulin Pricing, and shares that he has seen rationing among his own patients.



Somesh Nigam, PhD

Latest:

Reduced Medical Spending Associated With Integrated Pharmacy Benefits

Members covered by an integrated pharmacy benefit (as opposed to a pharmacy carve-out) experienced slower growth in medical spending.




Marie A. Hunsinger, RN, BSHS

Latest:

Factors Associated With Timeliness in Academic General Surgery Clinics: A Prospective Quality Assessment

The participation of residents and physician assistants significantly increased patient wait time without reducing the attending surgeon’s consultation length in outpatient surgery clinics.


Molly Billstein Leber, PharmD, BCPS, FASHP

Latest:

Formulary Considerations: The Past, Present, and Future

The hospital formulary system is an ongoing process that evaluates and selects the safest, most effective, and most economical care for hospitalized patients. As healthcare continues to change, so will the formulary management process.


Carlin Senter, MD

Latest:

Referring Wisely: Orthopedic Referral Guidelines at an Academic Institution

The authors used the modified Delphi method to develop local orthopedic referral guidelines, enabling detailed decision support and non—face-to-face consultation at the point of referral.


Su-Ying Liang, PhD

Latest:

Primary Care Physician Practice Styles and Quality, Cost, and Productivity

Primary care physicians who address multiple problems during acute care visits achieve better clinical scores, comparable patient experience, and lower annual cost.



M. Kate Bundorf, PhD

Latest:

Why Are Medicare and Commercial Insurance Spending Weakly Correlated?

The weak correlation between Medicare and commercial insurance spending is due to negative correlations between each sector's price and the other sector's volume.


Paul N. Pfeiffer, MD

Latest:

Depression Care Following Psychiatric Hospitalization in the Veterans Health Administration

Different patient characteristics predict adequate antidepressant treatment after hospitalization, received by 58.7% of patients, versus adequate psychotherapy, received by 12.9% of patients.


Christopher L. Bryson, MD, MS

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Massachusetts Health Reform and Veterans Affairs Health System Enrollment

Health reform increased Medicaid enrollment, but was not associated with Veterans Health Administration and private insurance enrollment among Massachusetts veterans.


Albert Wu, MD, MPH

Latest:

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing After Adverse Patient Safety Events

The authors explore the potential value of providing critical incident stress debriefing for health professionals involved in adverse patient safety events and the instances in which this could be routinely implemented.


Bonnie J. Addario

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Patient Engagement Is Mandatory at Our Table

The Bonnie Addario Lung Cancer Foundation has developed a registry that can serve as a repository for data on patients with lung cancer-a means to empower patients and assist care providers to deliver personalized medicine in a patient-centered manner.


Zhou Yang, PhD, MPH

Latest:

The Value of Virtual Physical Therapy for Musculoskeletal Care

This counterfactual simulation study on a nationally representative sample of the working population with musculoskeletal conditions estimated the value of patient-initiated virtual physical therapy.




Samuel Wagner, PhD

Latest:

An Expanded Portfolio of Survival Metrics for Assessing Anticancer Agents

A novel, simplified cost-value analysis tool was created to better differentiate the value of anticancer agents and further characterize the expected survival benefit of all patients.


Francois de Brantes

Latest:

Bending the Curve Through Health Reform Implementation

Authors from The Brookings Institution update their recommendations by focusing on 3 concrete objectives to slow spending and improve quality of care within the next 5 years.



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