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Continuous Quality Improvement Program, Based on Lean Concepts, Allows Emptying of Emergency Department CorridorsA continuous quality improvement program, based on Lean concepts and including architectural, managerial, and organizational features, allows the emptying of emergency department corridors and the improvement of time interval measurements/quality indicators.
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Validating a Method to Assess Disease Burden From Insurance ClaimsWhen we weighted health insurance claims with a disease burden score, we were able to generate valid estimates of disability-adjusted life-years.
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The Accountable Primary Care Model: Beyond Medical Home 2.0The new Accountable Primary Care Model delivers Triple Aim-like outcomes. This model is empirical, measurable, programmatic, scalable, and transplantable.
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Hospital Discharge Diagnosis Position: Impact on Adult Pneumonia Burden EstimatesDisease burden estimates of pneumonia-associated hospitalizations are more sensitive when including pneumonia coded in any diagnosis field vs in only the first discharge diagnosis field.
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Functional Status and Readmissions in Unilateral Hip FracturesFunctional status is an important predictor of an acute care readmission in patients who have had a unilateral hip fracture.
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Health Information Technology and the Medical School CurriculumThere are opportunities for and obstacles to adding core biomedical informatics competencies to medical school curricula.
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Periodic Health Examinations and Missed Opportunities Among Patients Likely Needing Mental Health CareAmong patients likely needing mental health care, two-thirds had no discussion or perfunctory discussion of mental health during periodic health exams.
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Guideline Concordance of New Statin Prescriptions: Who Got a Statin?New statin prescriptions at the Veterans Health Administration were reviewed using a cross-sectional study design. Statins were frequently prescribed outside of guideline recommendations.
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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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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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Obtaining Patient Feedback at Point of Service Using Electronic KiosksElectronic kiosks were used to survey patients on their experience with care at the time of care delivery in an urban primary care practice.
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Improving Endoscopy Completion: Effectiveness of an Interactive Voice Response SystemAn interactive voice response system is as effective as nurse phone calls for ensuring that patients attend appointments and are adequately prepared for endoscopy examinations.
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Medicaid Prior Authorization Policies and Imprisonment Among Patients With SchizophreniaThis study examined the impact of prior authorization formularies on the likelihood that patients with schizophrenia will be arrested and incarcerated.
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Economic Value of Pharmacist-Led Medication Reconciliation for Reducing Medication Errors After Hospital DischargeThe results of this simulation model suggest that implementing a pharmacist-led medication reconciliation intervention at hospital discharge could be cost-saving compared with usual care.
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Connected Care: Improving Outcomes for Adults With Serious Mental IllnessCase study of a payer-led intervention to improve coordination of care for adult Medicaid beneficiaries with serious mental illness.
