November 2016

November 17, 2016

The authors developed and validated a survey instrument to assess primary care providers’ and pharmacists’ experiences, attitudes, and beliefs regarding medication discontinuation.

November 17, 2016

This paper presents a policy proposal to integrate care for Medicare beneficiaries through creation of integrated care organizations and a Medicare home care benefit.

November 17, 2016

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries use less home healthcare than do their fee-for-service counterparts, but there is marked regional variation in use by both groups.

November 16, 2016

A descriptive analysis of specialty referral patterns in an academic, internal medicine patient-centered medical home (PCMH).

November 16, 2016

Two leading US health systems attempted to implement 4 draft objectives for Meaningful Use Stage 3 within their health IT infrastructure to provide feedback on needed enhancements to the policy.

November 15, 2016

Following the results of the recent presidential election, AJMC® Co-Editors-in-Chief weigh in on the implications of this new chapter in health reform.

November 10, 2016

Breast cancer screening may not improve in early medical home implementation.

November 09, 2016

Most internal medicine subspecialists report the majority of their clinical time is spent in principal care or longitudinal consultative care patient management roles.

November 07, 2016

To address infant mortality, focusing only on babies who were born prematurely or with a low birth weight will be missing an attention-worthy segment of the population.

November 04, 2016

To improve overall health, and not just healthcare, health systems require policies that fund and promote direct interventions targeting social determinants.

October 26, 2016

Availability of multiple sclerosis (MS) therapies provides substantial value to the currently healthy (who may contract MS in the future), particularly when treatment is fully covered by insurance.