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A New Gatekeeper for Back Pain

Automated Patient Assessments After Outpatient Surgery Using an Interactive Voice Response System

Using an interactive voice response system to contact patients after outpatient surgery will likely result in improved efficiency without a decrease in assessment quality.

Treatment Patterns Among Adults With ADHD Receiving Long-Acting Therapy

Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who received long-acting combination therapy had significantly lower adherence and persistence compared with those who received long-acting monotherapy.

Relationship Between Provider Type and the Attainment of Treatment Goals in Primary Care

It Is Time to Ask Patients What Outcomes Are Important to Them

Patients with abdominal or back pain identified 21 outcomes important to them, but the reported outcomes are quite different from the symptom and function outcomes studied by researchers.

Heterogeneity of Nonadherent Buprenorphine Patients: Subgroup Characteristics and Outcomes

Patient and treatment heterogeneity were characterized within a sample of nonadherent buprenorphine members; an improved understanding of these factors may optimize patient—treatment matching and intervention efforts.

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Health Plans' Coverage Determinations for Technology-based Interventions: The Case of Electrical Bone Growth Stimulation

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.

Impact of Certified CME in Atrial Fibrillation on Administrative Claims

Use of administrative claims data is an innovative way of measuring the effect of continuing medical education on physician practice behavior and patient outcomes.

Low Clinical Utility of Folate Determinations in Primary Care Setting

It seems that folate determinations in patients without known risk factors for folate deficiency are of little clinical significance.

Colorectal Cancer Screening in the 21st Century: Where Do We Go From Here?

Improving the appropriate use of colorectal cancer screening requires novel approaches to strike a balance between underuse and overuse.

Fetal Fibronectin Testing and Pregnancy Outcomes Among Texas Medicaid Patients at Risk for Preterm Birth

Payer Effects of Personalized Preventive Care for Patients With Diabetes

We examine the effects of MD–Value in Prevention (MDVIP) enrollment on Medicare expenditures and utilization among fee-for-service beneficiaries with diabetes over a 5-year period.

The Curse of Being First: Lessons From Pharma’s Blockbuster Drugs

What can we learn from Biogen's decision to halt sales of aducanumab?

Postpartum Depression

Cost-Offset Analysis: Bimatoprost Versus Other Prostaglandin Analogues in Open-Angle Glaucoma

Treatment of glaucoma with bimatoprost is associated with cost savings compared with treatment with latanoprost or travoprost because of greater intraocular pressure reduction.

Risk Adjustment in Home Health Care CAHPS

The authors disagree with previous research concluding that the Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Services (CAHPS) publicly reported data are insufficiently adjusted for patient comorbidities.

A Systematic Review of Diabetes Disease Management Programs

Systematic Analysis of Outcomes Evaluations Applied to Drug Management Programs

Adopting quality measurement standards for drug management programs might increase the effectiveness and long-term sustainability of positive health outcomes for patients.

Early Changes in VA Medical Home Components and Utilization

Significant changes were found in patients' utilization of healthcare related to early implementation of medical home components in VA primary care clinics.

The Cost of Adherence Mismeasurement in Serious Mental Illness: A Claims-Based Analysis

This study demonstrates that common pharmacy claims-based measures underestimate the effect of actual adherence on inpatient costs among patients with serious mental illness.

Preventive Care and Health Behaviors Among Overweight/Obese Men in HMOs

Healthcare organizations may reduce weight-related health risks and disparities in care among overweight/obese patients through promoting cancer screening exams, healthier diets, and physical activity.

Variation in Network Adequacy Standards in Medicaid Managed Care

Medicaid managed care network adequacy standards exhibit significant heterogeneity across regions and specialties, potentially creating large variations in health care access and quality.

Building a Payment Model for Health Coaching in Primary Care: Lessons From Tennessee

This case study describes Tennessee’s process for convening key stakeholders to develop uniform payment guidelines to encourage increased preventive service delivery.

The Cost of Inpatient Endometriosis Treatment: An Analysis Based on the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Inpatient Sample

Population Targeting and Durability of Multimorbidity Collaborative Care Management

Benefits of a patient-centered multimorbidity care management program occurred early, and were evident only among patients with depression and unfavorable medical control of diabetes and heart disease.