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Burden of Alzheimer's Disease and Association With Negative Health OutcomesCommunity-based persons with Alzheimer’s disease have a higher risk of fractures, hospitalization, and various comorbidities than persons without the disease.
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Healthcare Network Analysis of Patients With Diabetes and Their PhysiciansNetwork analyses of patients with diabetes in Hawaii illustrate structures and links that health plans could leverage to strengthen quality improvement and disease management programs.
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Bowling Alone, Healing Together: The Role of Social Capital in Delivery ReformAs delivery reform unfolds and leads to new models of care delivery, social capital will be a powerful concept to incorporate into their design and evaluation.
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Healthcare Network Analysis of Patients With Diabetes and Their PhysiciansNetwork analyses of patients with diabetes in Hawaii illustrate structures and links that health plans could leverage to strengthen quality improvement and disease management programs.
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The Comparative Effectiveness of 2 Electronic Prescribing SystemsThis is a comparative effectiveness study that evaluates the safety effects of 2 types of commercially available electronic prescribing systems.
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Voice Response System to Measure Healthcare Costs:A STAR*D ReportModerate underreporting biases were found when patient responses to an interactive voice response system were compared with medical records in the STAR*D clinical trial.
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Managing Inappropriate Requests of Laboratory Tests: From Detection to MonitoringThis study shows automatic, practical, simple, and effective strategies designed in the laboratory, in consensus with requesting clinicians, to improve laboratory test appropriateness.
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Primary Care Diabetes Bundle Management: 3-Year Outcomes for Microvascular and Macrovascular EventsUsing a system for primary care management of patients with diabetes may reduce the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, and retinopathy over a 3-year period.
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Provider Use and Expenditures by Cancer Treatment PhaseMore than 26% of cancer patients see CAM providers, primarily for musculoskeletal problems; use does not vary by treatment phase, and associated expenditures are low.
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Cost of Delivering Centralized and Decentralized Reminder/Recall for Vaccinations to Children and Adolescents in an ACOCentralized reminder/recall (R/R) is less costly to deliver than decentralized R/R for both children and adolescents when implemented for patients within an accountable care organization.
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Resource Utilization With Insulin Pump Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes MellitusA retrospective claims analysis of managed care enrollees with type 2 diabetes mellitus showed that insulin pump therapy reduced antidiabetic drug and healthcare resource use.
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Impact of Statin Guidelines on Statin Utilization and Costs in an Employer-Based Primary Care ClinicAdherence to clinical guidelines in practice is often suboptimal and controversial. This study compares actual statin utilization and cost with full adoption of major clinical guidelines in a real-world population.
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Food Insecurity, Healthcare Utilization, and High Cost: A Longitudinal Cohort StudyIn a longitudinal study, the authors find that food insecurity is associated with greater emergency department visits, inpatient admissions, and length of stay. Check out our website’s new table/figure pop-up feature! Click on the name of a table or figure in the text to see it in your browser.
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Are Benefits From Diabetes Self-Management Education Sustained?Conventional individualized diabetes self-management education resulted in sustained improvement in self-efficacy and diabetes distress. Short-term improvements in A1C, nutrition, and physical activity were not sustained.
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Claims Identification of Patients With Severe Cancer-Related SymptomsThe authors established a claims-based mechanism for identifying patients with lung cancer with more severe patient-reported cancer-related symptoms who could benefit from engagement with health care programs.
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Costs of Venous Thromboembolism Associated With Hospitalization for Medical IllnessVenous thromboembolism during or after recent hospitalization for medical illness contributes a substantial economic burden to society across all hospital and ambulatory care delivered.
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Medical Cost Burdens Among Nonelderly Adults With AsthmaPeople with asthma face substantial out-of-pocket costs-even when they take medications to manage their illness. However, many choose to continue treatment despite these costs.
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Pilot-Testing a New Program for Providing Personalized and Patient-Centered Preventive CareProgram that enhances personalized and patient-centered preventive care at a busy inner-city primary care clinic may be associated with improved health outcomes.
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Opening and Continuing the Discussion on Influenza Vaccination TimingA patient-centered medical home with intensive case management and a payer partner can significantly improve hospital utilization and may decrease total medical costs for a Medicare population.
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Is Occupational Type Related to Obesity Risk?Sociodemographic characteristics of blue-collar workers may be attributed to the higher rates of obesity and chronic disease seen among them compared with white-collar workers.
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Diabetes Care Quality: Do Large Medical Groups Perform Better?Large medical groups perform better than medium- or small-sized groups on diabetes quality measures, perhaps because they have more care management processes in place.
