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Nasser Redjal, MD

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Adaptation of an Asthma Management Program to a Small Clinic

The authors adapted a successful large-scale, specialist-run asthma management program to an existing multi-specialty clinic utilizing existing resources and achieving similar outcomes.




Hassen Abdulkerim, MS

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How Pooling Fragmented Healthcare Encounter Data Affects Hospital Profiling

Incomplete records of patient history can bias hospital profiling. Completing health records for Medicare-covered patients in VA hospitals resulted in modest changes in hospital performance.


Nancy E. Oriol, MD (*Joint first authors)

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Mobile Health Clinics in the Era of Reform

This article reviews the mobile clinic sector's impact on access, quality, and costs, and explores postreform opportunities for leveraging them nationally.


Carolyn Kim, MPH

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Changes in Hospital Admissions for Urgent Conditions During COVID-19 Pandemic

Admission rates during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic were lower than in 2019 for acute medical conditions, suggesting that patients may be deferring necessary medical care.



Nancy A. Dreyer, PhD

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GRACE Principles: Recognizing High-Quality Observational Studies of Comparative Effectiveness

The GRACE principles lay out 3 questions to help healthcare providers, patients, and other decision makers evaluate the quality of noninterventional comparative effectiveness studies.



Lauren M. Scarpati, PhD

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Drivers of Excess Costs of Opioid Abuse Among a Commercially Insured Population

The healthcare burden of opioid abuse is substantial; abusers often have complex healthcare needs and may require care beyond that which is required to treat abuse.


Katlyn Nemani, BA

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HIT Press Club AJMC - Katlyn Nemani, BA

Katlyn Nemani, BA, Tufts University School of Medicine, discusses her paper


Pamela N. Roberto, MPP

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Binary Measures for Associating Medication Adherence and Healthcare Spending

The use of an 80% threshold or other binary cut point may be insufficient for characterizing the relationship between medication adherence and Medicare spending.


Tina Huynh, MPH, MHA

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VA Geriatric Scholars Program’s Impact on Prescribing Potentially Inappropriate Medications

Primary care teams reduced their prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications to older veterans after participation in the Veterans Affairs (VA) Geriatric Scholars Program.


Angelo Elmi, PhD

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Previously Unrecognized Trends in Diabetes Consumption Clusters in Medicare

Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes who are at the lowest levels of healthcare consumption often become some of the highest level consumers in subsequent years.


Sharon Reif, PhD

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How Health Plans Promote Health IT to Improve Behavioral Health Care

Commercial health plans promote the use of health IT to support behavioral health care access and delivery.



Cameron B. Haas, MPH

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Time to Fecal Immunochemical Test Completion for Colorectal Cancer

Targeted interventions by patient characteristics to improve fecal immunochemical test completion could reduce disparities in colorectal cancer screening and improve overall compliance with screening recommendations.




Nora Mueller, MAA

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How Do Providers Prioritize Prevention? A Qualitative Study

Primary care providers utilize many strategies for prioritizing preventive care during time-constrained clinical encounters, in addition to being prompted by clinical reminders.











Markus Wieser, MD

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Frequency of and Harm Associated With Primary Care Safety Incidents

Physicians' and nurses' assessments of the frequency and harm of incidents can be a supplemental method to study patient safety in the primary care office.

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