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Reference-Based Pricing: An Evidence-Based Solution for Lab Services ShoppingReference-based pricing combined with employer education and an online shopping tool significantly improved members' utilization of lab services at or below the reference price
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High-Risk Centers and the Benefits for Lower-Risk TransplantsThere does not appear to be any comparative advantage for low-risk hematopoietic cell transplantation patients to seek care from high-risk centers.
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Cost Per Response Analysis of Strategies for Chronic Immune ThrombocytopeniaThis decision tree model estimates the cost per response and incremental cost per additional responder for romiplostim, eltrombopag, and “watch and rescue” for immune thrombocytopenia.
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Guideline-Based Peer-to-Peer Consultation Optimizes Pegfilgrastim Use With No Adverse Clinical ConsequencesActive expert peer-to-peer consultation with prescribing oncologists can promote adherence to guidelines and lead to cost reductions without risk of neutropenic fever, with or without hospitalization, for patients with cancer.
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Prescriber Compliance With Black Box Warnings in Older Adult PatientsElderly patients prescribed drugs with a drug-laboratory black box warning (BBW) had lower rates of prescriber BBW compliance than patients prescribed drugs with a drug-disease warning.
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CHAPTER 3. Guideline for Detection and Management of Diabetes in PregnancyFrom the Adult Diabetes and Clinical Research sections, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Effectiveness of Care Coordination and Health Counseling in Advancing IllnessThis prospective trial suggests that specialized care coordination and health counseling for patients coping with advanced stages of 4 life-limiting illnesses can be beneficial.
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Catheter Management After Benign Transurethral Prostate Surgery: RAND/UCLA Appropriateness CriteriaThis manuscript synthesizes findings from a multidisciplinary panel following the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method to guide standardization of urinary catheter use after transurethral prostate surgery.
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Value-Based Contracting Innovated Medicare Advantage Healthcare Delivery and Improved SurvivalElderly Medicare Advantage members with multiple chronic conditions attained a survival benefit from more cost-effective care when a private plan developed gainshare and monetary risk-bearing arrangements with its contracted providers.
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A Meta-analysis Update: Percutaneous Coronary InterventionsMeta-analyses of percutaneous coronary interventions in stable coronary artery disease are updated to include 2 recent large randomized controlled trials.
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Understanding Suboptimal e-Consult Requests: Lessons From the VAUS Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clinicians’ perspectives on what constitutes a good e-consult and why suboptimal e-consult requests occur contain broadly applicable lessons for other health systems.
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Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions of Challenges to Chronic Pain ManagementHealthcare professionals report pain management barriers across system, provider, and patient levels, highlighting the need to consider chronic pain as a chronic condition that warrants coordinated approaches.
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Medicare Advantage Control of Postacute Costs: Perspectives From StakeholdersThis qualitative study examines the methods that Medicare Advantage plans use to control or reduce postacute spending and their associated unintended consequences.
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Estimated Effect of Asthma Case Management Using Propensity Score MethodsAn asthma case management program increased preventive care but did not significantly decrease markers of exacerbations.
