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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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Accountable Care Organization Hospitals Differ in Health IT CapabilitiesHospitals participating in accountable care organizations (ACOs) have greater adoption of health information technology, particularly patient-facing technology and health information exchange, than non-ACO hospitals.
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Inappropriate Wrist MRI: Did Guidelines Have an Impact?This article analyzes the use of MRI in a national sample of patients with wrist pain before and after consensus guideline publication.
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Low-Value Care for Acute Sinusitis Encounters: Who's Choosing Wisely?Acute sinusitis is a common acute illness and offers an opportunity to eliminate low-value care. The authors describe current practices, comparing primary care, urgent care, and the emergency department.
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Applying Weighting Methodologies to a Commercial Database to Project US Census Demographic DataThis study tests the feasibility of projecting commercial insurance demographic information to the US Census population, and creating the framework for a simple weighting scheme.
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Disparities in Diabetes and Hypertension Care for Individuals With Serious Mental IllnessThis study highlights disparities in care for diabetes and hypertension for individuals with serious mental illness compared with the general Medicaid and Medicare populations.
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Innovative Care Models for High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries: Delivery System and Payment Reform to Accelerate AdoptionThis paper illustrates how Medicare Advantage plans and accountable care organizations could benefit from adopting innovative care delivery models, and suggests policy changes to accelerate spread.
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The Association of Health Literacy Domains With Hospitalizations and MortalityDespite previous research evidence, this study did not reveal an overall association of health literacy, numeracy, and graph literacy with all-cause hospitalizations or mortality.
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Progress of Diabetes Severity Associated With Severe Hypoglycemia in TaiwanRapid progression of diabetes complications was associated with higher risk of severe hypoglycemia.
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Bending the Curve Through Health Reform ImplementationAuthors from The Brookings Institution update their recommendations by focusing on 3 concrete objectives to slow spending and improve quality of care within the next 5 years.
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Understanding the Financial Return to Investments in the Social Determinants of HealthThe policy community should consider these concrete suggestions to address the challenges presented by social determinants of health.
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6 Connected Patient Challenge Finalists to Compete in Live Pitch-OffThe 6 finalists will pitch their innovations at Google’s campus February 27 for a chance to win up to $50,000 in in-kind services from Boston Scientific and Google.
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Continuity of Outpatient Care and Avoidable Hospitalization: A Systematic ReviewHigher continuity of care was statistically significant and was associated with fewer ambulatory care–sensitive condition hospitalizations.
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Physician Perception of Reimbursement for Outpatient Procedures Among Managed Care Patients With Diabetes MellitusPerception of reimbursement was associated with electrocardiography but not with other common outpatient procedures. Future research should investigate how associations change with perceived reimbursement amount.
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Testimonials Do Not Convert Patients From Brand to Generic MedicationWe conducted a randomized controlled trial to assess whether adding a peer testimonial to a mailing increases conversion rates from brand name prescription medications to lower-cost equivalents.
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Finding Cancer at HomeOne medical student’s search for answers about her sister’s cancer leads her to realize that health information exchange can support the development of more sophisticated approaches to identifying root causes of disease.
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Developing an Incentives Playbook: Aligning Influences in the Era of ReformTo optimize the impact of delivery system and payment reforms, healthcare system leaders may need to align organizational incentives with those facing frontline providers while also considering a wide range of factors that influence providers' choices.
