October 2026

Higher clinician and staff perceptions of learning-oriented clinic environments were associated with lower burnout, suggesting that learning-health-system characteristics support workforce well-being in primary care.

The Cambridge Multimorbidity Score was adapted to ICD-10 and demonstrated better predictive performance than the Charlson Comorbidity Index in German primary care claims data.

Topical diclofenac usage among Medicare beneficiaries rose 1621% (2015-2019) independent of marketing, potentially reflecting therapeutic substitution driven by national efforts to reduce opioid prescribing.

This system-level initiative significantly increased guideline-concordant venous thromboembolism prophylaxis rates in hospitalized patients through coordinated education, clinical decision tools, audit-feedback, and pharmacist integration.

Low-dose CT (LDCT) screening for individuals with a family history of lung cancer was cost-effective using Taiwan-based parameters; future work should incorporate real-world program data and subgroup analyses.

The Ambulatory Specialty Model aims to reduce chronic disease costs by mandating specialist participation and tying payments to quality and cost, while posing nationwide risk challenges.

Medicare Advantage plans have varied motivations, strategies, and aspirations for addressing health-related social needs among home health beneficiaries, highlighting a need to expand the scope of supplemental benefits.

Medicare's Transforming Episode Accountability Model is projected to save $46.6 million by 2030, with safety-net hospitals potentially receiving the highest reconciliation payments.

A comparison of 2013 and 2022 data shows that cancer costs are not uniformly rising. Costs decreased for metastatic colorectal cancer but increased for both metastatic non–small cell lung cancer and multiple myeloma.

Employer-mandated enrollment in a high-deductible health plan did not reduce use of oral targeted anticancer medications among patients commercially insured between 2007 and 2021.

We identify the health system characteristics associated with greater or lesser documentation of patients’ social determinants of health.

Most surveyed individuals with obesity support lower-cost options for weight maintenance, which would allow better coverage for injectable incretin mimetics for weight management during active weight loss.