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Current Evidence and Controversies: Advanced Practice Providers in HealthcareThe authors compare advanced practice providers’ education, training, scope of practice, and quality of care with that of physicians. A framework is essential to promote team-based primary care.
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Care Coordination for Veterans With COPD: A Positive Deviance StudyImproving relational coordination and reducing structural barriers to collaboration may enhance quality of care for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other chronic conditions.
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Changing Trends in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Treatment Intensification, 2002-2010Glycemic control can lower the risk of diabetes-related complications, and delayed treatment intensification can impede optimal diabetes care.This study examines trends in hyperglycemia treatment intensification between 2002 and 2010.
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Payer Coverage for Patients Enrolled Onto Clinical Trials: Making the Process Easy and Transparent for EveryoneIt is not just 1 physician who cares for a patient enrolled onto a clinical trial but rather a complex system of several physician teams, sometimes with very different opinions, who must work together for therapy to be successful and for the patient to have faith in his treating team.
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Using Sequence Discovery to Target Outreach for Diabetes Medication AdherenceSequence discovery techniques identified sequences of events that led to gaps in diabetic therapies and were used to identify outreach opportunities aimed at improving medication adherence.
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Economic Burden of Hypoglycemia With Basal Insulin in Type 2 DiabetesHypoglycemia after basal insulin initiation is associated with high clinical and economic burden that precedes insulin initiation and persists during 1 to 2 years of follow-up.
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Did Medicare Part D Reduce Disparities?This study examined the impact of the Medicare Part D coverage gap on medication use by Hispanics, blacks, and whites with diabetes.
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Stimulating Comprehensive Medication Reviews Among Medicare Part D BeneficiariesThis article describes a study of an intervention to engage Medicare Part D beneficiaries in obtaining a comprehensive medication review.
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Getting From Here to There: Health IT Needs for Population HealthAligning health information technology with population health requires organizations to think differently about data needs, exchange partners, and how to leverage both for evidence-based action.
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Prospective or Retrospective ACO Attribution Matters for Seriously Ill PatientsThis study compared beneficiary characteristics and Medicare per capita expenditures among seriously ill Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) populations defined using prospective and retrospective claims-based attribution methods.
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US Care Pathways: Continued Focus on Oncology and Outstanding ChallengesThe authors examined the latest trends in development, implementation, and evaluation of care pathways and the impact of the movement toward value-based care.
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Assessing Outcomes in Child PsychiatryTwo standardized rating scales appeared to be valid and reliable for use at admission and possibly follow-up in a child psychiatry system of care.
