Authors


Melanie Applegate, MSN, FNP

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Pilot-Testing a New Program for Providing Personalized and Patient-Centered Preventive Care

Program that enhances personalized and patient-centered preventive care at a busy inner-city primary care clinic may be associated with improved health outcomes.


Based on the keynote by Robert Gabbay, MD, PhD

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Future Thinking in Diabetes Care: The Impact of New Practice Models

During his keynote address, Dr Gabbay spoke about the means of improving patient care and how new practice models, implemented at Joslin, have revolutionized the field.


David W. Brand, MSPH

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A Multimodal Blood Pressure Control Intervention in 3 Healthcare Systems

A multisite multimodal intervention of patient education, home monitoring, measurement reporting to an IVR system, and pharmacist follow-up achieved greater BP reductions vs usual care.



Ruslana Tsurikova, Msc, MA

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Electronic Health Record Feedback to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infections

An electronic health record–based feedback program, the Acute Respiratory Infection Quality Dashboard, did not lead to an overall change in antibiotic prescribing in primary care.




Craig A. Bunnell, MD, MPH, MBA

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Lessons From the Front: Designing and Implementing Clinical Pathways by and for Clinicians

As cancer care becomes more complex and more expensive, decision-support algorithms offer a mechanism to define best practice, reduce unwarranted variation, and control costs across growing networks.


Hannah Linden, MD

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Development of a Financial Literacy Course for Patients With Newly Diagnosed Cancer

This paper describes results from a patient survey regarding treatment-related financial experiences and interest in a financial literacy course.



Grace D. Brannan, PhD

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'All-or-None' (Bundled) Process and Outcome Indicators of Diabetes Care

In this study, providers were more likely to achieve processes-ofcare goals when diabetes care was bundled at the indicator level than at the patient level.


Catherine M. DesRoches, DrPH

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Health Information Exchange Among US Hospitals

Few US hospitals exchange data electronically with unaffiliated providers. Factors associated with competitiveness appear to influence hospitals' decisions to engage in clinical data exchange.



Robert McKim, MSc

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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.


Michelle M. Cloutier, MD

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The Economic Impact of an Urban Asthma Management Program

An asthma disease management program reduced medical services utilization for urban children and had a potentially positive return on investment for Medicaid managed care plans.





Kimberly Ann Brown, MD

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Hepatitis C Care Cascade Among Persons Born 1945-1965: 3 Medical Centers

In this analysis of patients with newly diagnosed hepatitis C, linkage to care was largely successful in the 1945-1965 birth cohort, but treatment initiation remained low. Check out our website’s new table/figure pop-up feature! Click on the name of a table or figure in the text to see it in your browser.



Richard G. Frank, PhD

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Slowing Medicare Spending Growth: Reaching for Common Ground

Recognizing shared features of 2 Medicare payment reform strategies, premium support and global payment, may help us focus on, and resolve, the differences.


Stacey Kowal, MS

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Cost-effectiveness of Intensification With SGLT2 Inhibitors for Type 2 Diabetes

Adding a sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor dominated switching to a glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist over the lifetimes of patients with type 2 diabetes not at glycated hemoglobin A1c target after treatment with metformin plus a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor.


Gary Y. Leung, PhD

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Behavioral Health Disorders and Adherence to Measures of Diabetes Care Quality

Persons with substance use disorders were less likely and persons with schizophrenia/paranoia were more likely to be adherent to measures of diabetes care quality.



John H. Greist, MD

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Voice Response System to Measure Healthcare Costs:A STAR*D Report

Moderate underreporting biases were found when patient responses to an interactive voice response system were compared with medical records in the STAR*D clinical trial.



Xiaoqing Fu, MS

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High-Cost, High-Need Patients: The Impact of Reported Penicillin Allergy

A reported penicillin allergy was common and was associated with suboptimal antibiotic choices and increased healthcare utilization in high-cost, high-need patients.




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