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Can Cancer Patients Seeking a Second Opinion Get Better Care?Colorectal resection patients in Taiwan with heavy hospital shopping behaviors got better surgical care than those who did not shop or hospitals.
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Plan Designs That Encourage the Use of Generic Drugs Over Brand-Name Drugs: An Analysis of a Free Generic BenefitSmall increases and decreases in pharmacy copayments have little influence on patients’ switching to generic drugs or on improving adherence to medication regimens.
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Reexamining the Association of Care Continuity and Health Care OutcomesClaims-based and patient-reported continuity measures have distinct effects on subjective and objective outcomes. A claims-based continuity indicator may be a unique dimension of care continuity.
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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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Adherence, Persistence, and Switching Patterns of Dabigatran EtexilateWe present a descriptive analysis utilizing pharmacy claims from a managed care population to quantify adherence, persistence, and switching patterns for patients initiating dabigatran.
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The Health Information Technology Special Issue: Has IT Become a Mandatory Part of Health and Healthcare?The 7th annual Health Information Technology (IT) issue provides a window into how health IT tools are working well, how they may not be working as intended, and what we can do to continue making progress toward optimal use of technology to accomplish our shared goals: better health, better care experience, and lower per capita cost.
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Changing Demographics Among Populations Prescribed HCV Treatment, 2013-2017From 2013 to 2017, the population of US patients prescribed treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) changed, becoming predominantly treatment-naïve and having received care in nonacademic centers.
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Imposing a Health Insurance Surcharge on the UnvaccinatedImposing a surcharge on unvaccinated employees will require employers to think through legal and policy implications.
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That Was Then, This Is NowWhen Aligning Forces started, federal policy was a desert. Now it's a greenhouse.
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Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Utilization, and Costs of Chronic Opioid Treatment for Non-Cancer Pain in the United StatesHealthcare utilization and costs increased in the 6 months after patients started opioid therapy for chronic pain; they then decreased but never reverted to baseline levels.
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Validating the Adapted Diabetes Complications Severity Index in Claims DataThe aDCSI without the inclusion of laboratory data performs similarly to the DCSI with laboratory results, and is a good measure of diabetes severity.
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Do Localized Disasters Impact Clinical Measures of Health Care Quality?This study examines the impact of geographically limited disasters on health care quality performance scores of Medicare Advantage contracts, finding limited impact on performance scores.
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Hepatitis B Virus Infection Testing and Prevalence Among Asian and Pacific IslandersWe examined the effect of country of origin on HBV testing and chronic HBV infection prevalence among APIs using data from Kaiser Permanente Hawaii.
