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Electronic Health Record Functions Differ Between Best and Worst HospitalsPatterns of electronic health record adoption among highand low-quality hospitals indicated that high-quality institutions had far greater use of most electronic health record functions.
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The Social Value of Childhood Vaccination in the United StatesVaccination of children born in the United States in 2009 will save 1.2 million quality-adjusted life-years, generating $184 billion in social value net of vaccination costs.
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Predicting Nursing Home Placement Among Home- and Community-Based Services Program ParticipantsThe authors developed a model to identify participants in a home- and community-based services program who are at highest risk for long-term nursing home placement.
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US Insurance Program's Experience With a Multigene Assay for Early-Stage Breast CancerThis study presents Humana's experience with a multigene breast cancer assay and provides an analysis of the clinical utility and economics of this technology.
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Payer Effects of Personalized Preventive Care for Patients With DiabetesWe examine the effects of MD–Value in Prevention (MDVIP) enrollment on Medicare expenditures and utilization among fee-for-service beneficiaries with diabetes over a 5-year period.
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Testing of a Tethered Personal Health Record Framework for Early End-of-Life DiscussionsPilot testing demonstrates the use of a novel, personal health record—based framework used in primary care settings may improve presence and quality of advance care planning documentation in the electronic health record.
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Nurse Practitioner Comanagement for Patients in an Academic Geriatric PracticeNurse practitioner comanagment improved quality of care for 5 chronic conditions in an academic geriatrics practice.
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Continuity of Outpatient Care and Avoidable Hospitalization: A Systematic ReviewHigher continuity of care was statistically significant and was associated with fewer ambulatory care–sensitive condition hospitalizations.
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Evaluation of Value-Based Insurance Design With a Large Retail EmployerRetrospective analysis of value-based insurance design (VBID) showed the potential for VBID to improve adherence and reduce utilization and costs with active disease management counseling.
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Increasing Preventive Health Services via Tailored Health CommunicationsThe authors describe and apply a methodology for defining tailored health communications in order to increase the number of completed colorectal cancer screenings.
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Characteristics, Utilization, and Concentration of Outpatient Care for Dual-Eligible Medicare BeneficiariesOutpatient care for dual-eligible beneficiaries is concentrated among a small group of physicians, and these beneficiaries receive less subspecialty care despite having more chronic conditions.
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Real-Time Video Detection of Falls in Dementia Care Facility and Reduced Emergency CareAn artificial intelligence–enabled video fall detection system using visual science reduced emergency department visits by 80% in 6 communities over 3 months.
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Simple Errors in Interpretation and Publication Can Be CostlyA recent AJMC study contained overstatements and small but importantly placed errors that have the potential to cause unwarranted on-the-ground cost problems.
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The Wider Public Health Value of HCV Treatment Accrued by Liver Transplant RecipientsAdvances in treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) have the potential to generate considerable spillover benefits to patients awaiting transplants, especially among those with non—HCV-mediated liver failure.
