April 2012

Medication adherence in hyperlipidemia remains poor on a nationally representative level. Predictors of medication adherence from a nationally representative commercial health plan are reported.

Hospital and physician-hospital alignment, but not loyalty, are predictors of integrated electronic health record adoption by admitting physicians in an integrated system.

In an integrated health system, human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C telemedicine clinics are associated with improved access, high patient satisfaction, and reduction in health visit“related time.

The Diabetes Complications Severity Index without laboratory test results is a good measure of diabetes severity, given its ability to explain costs.

This commentary reflects how high-performing healthcare organizations use health information technology to advance patient safety.

We found no consistent associations between physician incentives for quality improvement and 12 measures of ambulatory quality of care.

We examine and quantify patient and physician factors that affect the utilization of outpatient imaging by primary care physicians caring for adult patients.

This cost-effectiveness analysis of care options for group A streptococcus patients is the first to include community pharmacy as a possible point of care.

Criteria used by primary care physicians to select patients for practice-based care management programs were explored in a qualitative study.