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Shardool Patel, PharmD

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VA Geriatric Scholars Program’s Impact on Prescribing Potentially Inappropriate Medications

Primary care teams reduced their prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications to older veterans after participation in the Veterans Affairs (VA) Geriatric Scholars Program.


Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH

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Pediatric Integrated Delivery System's Experience With Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1)

Experience of a pediatric integrated delivery system with the surge from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic is described, emphasizing scale, scope, and flexibility at multiple locations.




Marisa E. Domino, PhD

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Patient-Centered Medical Homes and Preventive Service Use

Preventive service use was better in patients with a usual source of care but little improved by patient-centered medical home status.


Pooja Chandrashekar, AB

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Stopping the Flood: Reducing Harmful Cascades of Care

Reducing cascades while maintaining our commitment to high-quality care requires equipping patients and clinicians with the information, tools, and support to embrace uncertainty.


George A. Andrews, MD, MBA, CPE

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Inefficiencies in Osteoarthritis and Chronic Low Back Pain Management

This study identified inefficiencies in drug and medical service utilization related to pain management among Medicare members with osteoarthritis and chronic low back pain.



Patricia R. Salber, MD, MBA

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Impact of Dementia on Costs of Modifiable Comorbid Conditions

Alzheimer disease and other dementias (ADOD) have a substantial impact on the prevalence and costs of certain comorbid conditions compared with matched beneficiaries without ADOD.



Neeraj Bhandari, MD

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Are Healthcare Quality "Report Cards" Reaching Consumers? Awareness in the Chronically Ill Population

Using longitudinal data, this paper examines to what extent comparative quality information in the form of healthcare "report cards" is reaching chronically ill adults.



Ann Huston, MHS

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Service Line Care Delivery Model for COVID-19 Patient-Centric Care

The authors provide steps hospitals can take to align their care delivery model to effectively meet the demands of a public health crisis such as the current pandemic.


Andrew Mackenzie, BS

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Population-Based Return on Investment of Deploying Transient Elastography

Deploying vibration-controlled transient elastography/controlled attenuation parameter devices at the population level is a financially advantageous solution to address the epidemic of fatty liver disease.


Steven M. Brunelli, MD, MSCE

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Predicting Hospitalizations for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease

The authors developed an algorithm that uses medical claims to identify patients with chronic kidney disease who are at greatest risk of being hospitalized within 90 days.


Rina Lokaj

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Second-Line Axi-Cel Prolongs Survival Over Standard of Care in Elderly Patients With R/R LBCL

The administration of axicabtagene ciloleucel in the second-line setting improved overall survival and progression-free survival vs standard-of-care treatment in patients with relapsed/refractory large B-cell lymphoma who are at least 65 years of age.


Seuli Bose Brill, MD

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Integrating Primary Care and Public Health for Advance Care Planning

This article proposes a new model, Public-Primary ACP, that leverages coordination between primary care and public health workforces to improve delivery of advance care planning.


Aria Xiong, MS

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An Accelerated Hospital Observation Pathway to Reduce Length of Stay for Patients With COVID-19

For select patients hospitalized due to COVID-19, an academic urban hospital implemented an observation pathway that incorporated mobile health technology, reducing hospital length of stay by more than 2 days.


Stefanie Turner, MHI

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Patient Assignment and Quality Performance: A Misaligned System

This article explores the congruence between payer patient assignment and quality performance and the implications for incentive payments in alternative payment models.


Michael C. Leo, PhD

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Impact of Expanded Carrier Screening on Health Care Utilization

This study shows little evidence of harms or increased health care utilization for people receiving negative (normal) results of expanded carrier screening through genome sequencing.


Lu Ban, PhD

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Bleeds and Resource Use in Hemophilia B: Retrospective Observational Study

This real-world US study describes individuals with hemophilia B who experience bleeds despite factor replacement therapy and quantifies the associated comorbidity and health care resource utilization burden.


Matthias Arnold, Dr Oec Publ

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Cost-effectiveness of Case Management: A Systematic Review

This systematic review found that studies of case management interventions have adequate quality and, in many cases, show cost-effective or even cost-saving results.


Mark Newsom, MS

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Post-SNF Outcomes and Cost Comparison: Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare

Patients enrolled in Medicare Advantage had better outcomes and lower cost following skilled nursing facility (SNF) discharge than patients enrolled in traditional fee-for-service Medicare.


Janke Mains-Mason, MPH

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Empiric Segmentation of High-risk Patients: A Structured Literature Review

Data-driven segmentation of high-risk patient populations may inform health system interventions, but results are dependent on the data sources and methods applied.


Riccardo Lemini, MD

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Impact of Travel Distance on Quality Outcomes in Colorectal Cancer

This study identified characteristics of patients with colorectal cancer who traveled farther for surgery and found that those who traveled tended to stay longer at the hospital.

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