Authors


Natalie D. Ritchie, PhD

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Stakeholder Analysis: Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Awareness and Implementation

This article describes facilitators of and barriers to uptake of the underutilized Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program from the perspectives of health care providers and program suppliers in western Pennsylvania.




Jose J. Escarce, MD, PhD

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Collection of Language Data and Services Provided by Health Plans

Health plans have made substantial progress in the collection of language data and many are offering options for language services.


Evelyn T. Chang, MD, MSHS

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Which Patients Are Persistently High-Risk for Hospitalization?

Most patients in a large integrated healthcare system who were high-risk for hospitalization were at substantially lower risk within 2 years.


Machaon M. Bonafede, PhD, MPH

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Incidence and Cost of CAP in a Large Working-Age Population

Approximately 5% of non-elderly adults have a community acquired pneumonia (CAP) annually, with an annual total of $10.6 billion in direct and indirect costs.


Manel Pladevall, MD, MS

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Racial Disparities in Lipid Control in Patients With Diabetes

African Americans with diabetes are less likely than whites to be treated with lipid-lowering agents, have their medication altered, or reach LDL-C goal.



Hsien-Chang Lin, PhD

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Having a Consistent HIV Health Care Provider and HIV-Related Clinical Outcomes

The study examined the association of having a consistent HIV health care provider with related clinical outcomes, with an emphasis on a long-term physician-patient relationship.


Roberto Villarreal, MD

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Cost-Effectiveness of a Patient Navigation Program to Improve Cervical Cancer Screening

This study investigates the cost-effectiveness of a community-based patient navigation program to improve cervical cancer screening.


Mulugeta Gebregziabher, PhD

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Differential Impact of Mental Health Multimorbidity on Healthcare Costs in Diabetes

Assessment of prevalence and specific costs associated with discrete multimorbid mental health disease clusters in adults with diabetes.


Jin-Jong Chen, MD, PhD

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Inpatient Rehabilitation Utilization for Acute Stroke Under a Universal Health Insurance System

Based on claims data from a universal health insurance system, inpatient stroke rehabilitation use was 34.0% and mainly related to stroke type and stroke severity.



LeChauncy D. Woodard, MD, MPH

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Impact of Clinical Complexity on the Quality of Diabetes Care

We examined the impact of clinical complexity defined by comorbidity count and illness burden on comprehensive diabetes care, including blood pressure, glycemic, and lipid management.





Mark Wurster, MD

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STABLE Results: Warfarin Home Monitoring Achieves Excellent INR Control

Real-world retrospective analysis of over 29,000 patients performing INR home monitoring for warfarin therapy shows excellent time in therapeutic range.


Joseph C. Alvarnas, MD

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Obesity and Cancer Risk: A Public Health Crisis

Obesity is associated with a number of adverse health-related complications and carries an elevated individual all-cause mortality risk. It would be hard to overstate the increased adverse health outcomes for obese individuals. What is far less well recognized by the general public is the significant link between obesity and increased cancer risk.



Mark Hanson, PhD

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Does Medicare Advantage Enrollment Affect Home Healthcare Use?

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries use less home healthcare than do their fee-for-service counterparts, but there is marked regional variation in use by both groups.


Katelyn A. Young, BS

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Factors Associated With Timeliness in Academic General Surgery Clinics: A Prospective Quality Assessment

The participation of residents and physician assistants significantly increased patient wait time without reducing the attending surgeon’s consultation length in outpatient surgery clinics.





Peter D.R. Higgins, MD, PhD, MSc

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Adalimumab Persistence for Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Veteran and Insured Cohorts

Veterans with inflammatory bowel disease taking adalimumab appear to be more likely to remain on the drug 1 year after initiation than patients who are privately insured.


Pranav M. Patel, PharmD, MS

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Association of Social Risks With Avoiding or Delaying Health Care and With Emergency Department Visits: Evidence From 2017 Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey

Social risks (food insecurity, housing instability, financial strain, health insurance type) are associated with patients’ decisions to avoid/delay health care and increased utilization of the emergency department.




Center for Health Care Strategies

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The Blueprint for Complex Care: Laying the Groundwork to Build a Field Across Sectors

Complex care is cross-sector and person-centered, and it could bend America’s healthcare cost curve. The Blueprint for Complex Care gives this new field a national framework.

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