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Cost-effectiveness Evaluation of a Home Blood Pressure Monitoring ProgramA technology-based, pharmacist-run home blood pressure monitoring program improves health outcomes by investing $20.50 per mm Hg systolic blood pressure lowered and $3300 per life-year gained.
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FDA Oncology Center of Excellence Moves Forward on Coordinated Clinical Reviews, Integrated Approach to the Clinical Evaluation of Oncology ProductsAn overview of the FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence-a collaborative approach to the clinical approval process.
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A Mid-South Chronic Disease Registry and Practice-Based Research Network to Address DisparitiesThe authors report the experience of one of the first Southern US communities to develop a comprehensive health care data repository for tracking processes and outcomes of care and identifying areas of greatest need.
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Screening Cardiac Surgery Patients for MRSA: An Economic Computer ModelRoutine preoperative MRSA screening of cardiac surgery patients could provide substantial economic value to third-party payers and hospitals under a wide range of circumstances.
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Variation in the Cost of Medications for the Treatment of Colorectal CancerUsing data from a nationwide registry, this study revealed significant variation in the use and cost of contemporary regimens for colorectal cancer.
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Improving Medication Understanding Among Latinos Through Illustrated Medication ListsA randomized controlled trial found that plain-language, illustrated medication lists improved medication understanding among Latinos.
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Health Insurance Literacy: Disparities by Race, Ethnicity, and Language PreferenceRacial/ethnic minorities are disproportionately at risk for adverse health and financial consequences due to lower health insurance literacy compared with white enrollees.
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Benefits and Risks of Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine in Young ChildrenUse of live attenuated influenza vaccine in young children has a favorable benefit-risk profile.
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Geographic Variation in Surgical Outcomes and Cost Between the United States and JapanCompared with Japan, the United States has substantially less geographic variation in surgical outcomes, but it has higher variation in cost.
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Impact of Emergency Physician–Provided Patient Education About Alternative Care VenuesPostvisit phone education from an emergency physician and/or mailed information about alternative venues of care reduced subsequent emergency department (ED) utilization for low-acuity treat-and-release adult ED patients.
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Physician Practice Variation Under Orthopedic Bundled PaymentThis study demonstrates that variation reduction is an important, but not requisite, component of organizational success under orthopedic bundled payment.
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Compliance, Persistence, and Switching Patterns for ACE Inhibitors and ARBsThis drug-utilization study in a prescription database of more than 50,000 patients analyzed compliance, persistence, and switching behavior for ACE inhibitors and ARBs.
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Referrals and the PCMH: How Well Do We Know Our Neighborhood?A descriptive analysis of specialty referral patterns in an academic, internal medicine patient-centered medical home (PCMH).
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An Intervention for VA Patients With Congestive Heart FailureAn intervention of variable intensity for congestive heart failure showed some improvements but no survival effect, suggesting a tradeoff between intervention cost and intensity and survival benefit.
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The Impact of Electronic Health Records and Teamwork on Diabetes Care QualityPatients with diabetes that are cared for by primary care teams with higher cohesion experienced greater EHR-related outcome improvements, compared with patients cared for by lower cohesion teams.
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Economics of Genomic Testing for Women With Breast CancerAll the economic studies of genomic tests for breast cancer rely on modeling rather than randomized controlled trials or other direct trial data.
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Analyzing Admission Rates for Multiple Ambulatory Care–Sensitive ConditionsAmbulatory care–sensitive conditions can be systematically assessed in a large electronic medical database to describe admission rates by year, catchment area, and hospital affiliation.
