Authors


Nupur Mehta, MD

Latest:

Impact of Complex Care Management on Spending and Utilization for High-Need, High-Cost Medicaid Patients

Complex care management for high-need, high-cost Medicaid patients significantly reduced total medical expenditures and inpatient utilization in a randomized quality improvement trial.


Scott E. Sherman, MD, MPH

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Care Coordination to Increase Referrals to Smoking Cessation Telephone Counseling: A Demonstration Project

An intervention to increase tobacco treatment rates through care coordination for telephone counseling was effective in raising referral rates and in achieving excellent long-term abstinence.


Siting Zhou, PhD

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.



Baria Hafeez, MS

Latest:

Socioeconomic Disparities in Adoption of Personal Health Records Over Time

Over 4 years, rates of personal health record use increased rapidly across the board, but a digital divide remained evident.


Louis Hochheiser, MD

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US Insurance Program's Experience With a Multigene Assay for Early-Stage Breast Cancer

This study presents Humana's experience with a multigene breast cancer assay and provides an analysis of the clinical utility and economics of this technology.



Rolin L. Wade, MS

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Two-Year Adherence and Costs for Biologic Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Adherence to newly initiated biologic therapy for rheumatoid arthritis is important for long-term adherence.






Nicole Wick, AS

Latest:

Changing Demographics Among Populations Prescribed HCV Treatment, 2013-2017

From 2013 to 2017, the population of US patients prescribed treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) changed, becoming predominantly treatment-naïve and having received care in nonacademic centers.




Nancy L. Davis, PhD

Latest:

Physician ePortfolio: The Missing Piece for Linking Performance With Improvement

Clinical data should contribute to practice-based learning and improvement, resulting in improved patient care as well as meeting increasingly rigorous physician accountability requirements.



Anupam Jena, MD, PhD

Latest:

Therapeutic Choice and Outcomes at the Physician Level

Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Healthcare Policy, Harvard Medical School, presented research on how therapeutic choice and patient outcomes vary at the physician level.


Meei-Shyuan Lee, DPH

Latest:

Dietary Diversity Predicts Type of Medical Expenditure in Elders

Greater dietary diversity is associated with lower emergency and hospitalization utilization and expenditures, and identifies a policy direction for nutritionally disadvantaged groups.







Nasser Redjal, MD

Latest:

Adaptation of an Asthma Management Program to a Small Clinic

The authors adapted a successful large-scale, specialist-run asthma management program to an existing multi-specialty clinic utilizing existing resources and achieving similar outcomes.




Hassen Abdulkerim, MS

Latest:

How Pooling Fragmented Healthcare Encounter Data Affects Hospital Profiling

Incomplete records of patient history can bias hospital profiling. Completing health records for Medicare-covered patients in VA hospitals resulted in modest changes in hospital performance.


Nancy E. Oriol, MD (*Joint first authors)

Latest:

Mobile Health Clinics in the Era of Reform

This article reviews the mobile clinic sector's impact on access, quality, and costs, and explores postreform opportunities for leveraging them nationally.


Carolyn Kim, MPH

Latest:

Changes in Hospital Admissions for Urgent Conditions During COVID-19 Pandemic

Admission rates during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic were lower than in 2019 for acute medical conditions, suggesting that patients may be deferring necessary medical care.

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