AJMC
Issue:
April 2010
Volume:
16
Number:
4
AJMC
Peter J. Neumann, ScD; Hannah R. Auerbach, BA; Joshua T. Cohen, PhD; and Dan Greenberg, PhD

Building negative incentives into value-based insurance design programs to discourage use of low-value care will involve a number of challenges.

Tomas J. Philipson, PhD; Essy Mozaffari, PharmD, MPH; and John Ross Maclean, MD

This article studies the association of pharmacy cost sharing with antiplatelet therapy utilization and health outcomes for patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Dean G. Smith, PhD

Provision of quality healthcare covered in a quality way requires both information and courage.

Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, PhD

The relationship between higher cost sharing and reduced medication use may be confounded by patients’ healthy lifestyles or their health choices.

Amy M. Lischko, DSc; and James F. Burgess Jr, PhD

Educating employees about their cost-sharing responsibilities could lead to more efficient use of the healthcare system.

CLINICAL
Sylvia Brandt, PhD; Sara Gale, MPH; and Ira B. Tager, MD, MPH

An asthma case management program increased preventive care but did not significantly decrease markers of exacerbations.

John P. Jameson, PharmD; and Philip J. Baty, MD

Pharmacist management of poorly controlled diabetes mellitus in this randomized trial resulted in more patients decreasing their glycosylated hemoglobin level by at least 1.0%.

POLICY
Jayashri Sankaranarayanan, PhD; Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, PhD; Junfeng Sun, PhD; Fang Qiu, MS, PhD; Eugene C. Boilesen, BS; and Alan G. Thorson, MD

Older patients with colorectal cancer were less likely to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy; rural patients with colon cancer were less likely to undergo chemotherapy.

WEB EXCLUSIVE
Rafia S. Rasu, PhD; Christine M. Hunter, PhD; Alan L. Peterson, PhD; Heather M. Maruska, BSc, PharmD(Cand); and John P. Foreyt, PhD

An Internet-based weight management program provides a cost-effective alternative for weight management.

Chien-Wen Tseng, MD, MPH; Robert H. Brook, MD, ScD; G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS; Allen L. Hixon, MD; Emmett B. Keeler, PhD; Carol M. Mangione, MD, MSPH; Randi Chen, MS; Eric A. Jackson, PharmD; and R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA

High rates of health information technology use by physicians were only modestly associated with better knowledge of drug costs.

Aileen M. Soper, BA; C. E. (Gene) Reeder, RPh, PhD; Loreen M. Brown, MSW; Ana Stojanovska, BS; and Barbara J. Lennert, RN, BSN, MAOM

This article highlights the work of the National Oncology Working Group (NOW) Initiative.