March 14, 2011
Article
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Longer primary care wait times were associated with small increases in glycated hemoglobin levels. Diabetes care quality improvement strategies should consider timely access to care.
March 14, 2011
Article
WEB EXCLUSIVE
We assessed the frequency of and reasons for medically unnecessary hospital days, which affect patients, payers, hospitals, and healthcare providers.
March 14, 2011
Article
WEB EXCLUSIVE
India's emerging health insurance sector faces significant operational challenges that managed care models can help to address.
March 09, 2011
Article
CLINICAL
A family-based intervention targeting negative and/or inaccurate illness perceptions in patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes was effective in improving glycemic control.
March 08, 2011
Article
CLINICAL
Multiple chronic conditions among working-age adults lead to high costs over many years. Understanding how to effectively manage such patients is an important challenge.
March 07, 2011
Article
MANAGERIAL
A coinsurance rate decrease can result in increased adherence to oral antihyperglycemic agents and improved clinical outcomes and cost savings for the healthcare system.
March 06, 2011
Article
POLICY
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.
March 05, 2011
Article
METHODS
Prescription nonadherence in older patients with chronic health conditions resulted in more emergency department use.
March 04, 2011
Article
TRENDS FROM THE FIELD
Woman-level characteristics such as breast symptoms at mammography are associated with earlier follow-up within an integrated health system with an active breast health plan.