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Claims Identification of Patients With Severe Cancer-Related SymptomsThe authors established a claims-based mechanism for identifying patients with lung cancer with more severe patient-reported cancer-related symptoms who could benefit from engagement with health care programs.
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Patient-Centered Medical Home Features and Expenditures by Medicare BeneficiariesAnalysis of the impact of individual features of the patient-centered medical home care model on future healthcare expenditures among Medicare beneficiaries.
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Change in Claims-Based Diabetes Medications Is a Diabetes Improvement IndicatorWithout clinical information, a decrease in use of medications can serve as a proxy for clinical improvement.
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Performance Measurement for People With Multiple Chronic Conditions: Conceptual ModelThe Performance Measurement for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions conceptual model can facilitate development and refinement of quality measures for a medically complex population.
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ED-Based Care Coordination Reduces Costs for Frequent ED UsersResults of our pilot randomized controlled intervention involving emergency department (ED)-based care coordination and community health workers demonstrated a trend toward fewer ED visits, fewer hospitalizations, and lower costs among intervention patients.
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Simple Errors in Interpretation and Publication Can Be CostlyA recent AJMC study contained overstatements and small but importantly placed errors that have the potential to cause unwarranted on-the-ground cost problems.
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Effect of Multiple Chronic Conditions Among Working-Age AdultsMultiple chronic conditions among working-age adults lead to high costs over many years. Understanding how to effectively manage such patients is an important challenge.
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Impact of a Pharmacy-Based Transitional Care Program on Hospital ReadmissionsPatients receiving postdischarge care from pharmacists had a 28% lower risk of readmission at 30 days and a 31.9% lower risk at 180 days compared with usual care.
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Effective Implementation of Collaborative Care for Depression: What Is Needed?Factors most important for successful implementation of collaborative care for depression differ for patient activation versus achieving remission; both are critical to program success.
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Pilot-Testing a New Program for Providing Personalized and Patient-Centered Preventive CareProgram that enhances personalized and patient-centered preventive care at a busy inner-city primary care clinic may be associated with improved health outcomes.
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Lynch Syndrome Screening Implementation: Business Analysis by a Healthcare SystemThis study synthesized published evidence on Lynch syndrome screening and expanded that evidence to match the decision needs of internal decision makers.
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Turnover Among New Medicare Advantage Enrollees May Be Greater Than PerceivedEnrollees who join Medicare Advantage undergo significant turnover in the years following enrollment.
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Hospital Readmission Among Participants in a Transitional Case Management ProgramCostly new breast cancer therapies augment the significant burden this disease places on healthcare resources, but in context they may still provide value to society.
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Impact of Cost-Sharing on Treatment Augmentation in Patients With DepressionHigher patient cost-sharing is associated with a lower likelihood of treatment augmentation in patients with depression who are treated with antidepressants.
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Inpatient Electronic Health Record Maintenance From 2010 to 2015In the 6 years following inpatient electronic health record (EHR) implementation, an average of 2.5 significant EHR changes per day were made for maintenance and improvement.
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Health System Correlates of Receipt of Radiation Therapy After Breast-Conserving Surgery: A Study of Low-Income Medicaid-Enrolled WomenOmission of radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery leads to poor outcomes. Geographic isolation and scarcity of healthcare specialists correlate with low adjuvant radiation therapy use.
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Predictors of Physician Use of Inpatient Electronic Health RecordsHospital and physician-hospital alignment, but not loyalty, are predictors of integrated electronic health record adoption by admitting physicians in an integrated system.
