Patients with HIV are living longer and have more comorbidities. A new index could help clinicians determine who might benefit from screening and measure net benefit for a wide range of interventions for an individual patient.
The Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) Index is a clinical index that accounts for organ-system injury from multimorbidity and treatment toxicity, and is designed to guide care decisions.
Amy Justice, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and public health at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, presented the metric and described how it was developed and how it works at the 13th International Conference on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Acquired Immunodeficiencies.
Read more at: http://tinyurl.com/6rj2442
Source: Medscape; 13th International Conference on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Acquired Immunodeficiencies (ICMAOI): Abstract P7
Epilepsy Incidence, Prevalence Greater in More Deprived UK Regions
February 1st 2023Significant geographical variation was found regarding the prevalence and incidence of epilepsy in United Kingdom primary care data between 2013 and 2018, suggesting a potential relationship between the disease and deprivation.
Read More
Promoting Health Equity and Resiliency in Trauma-Affected Communities
January 31st 2023On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Reverend Paul Abernathy, CEO of the Neighborhood Resilience Project and board member of UPMC for You, who discusses his experiences in promoting health and resiliency in trauma-affected communities, as well as challenges related to access and accessibility of care and medical mistrust.
Listen
Risk for Adverse CVD Events Elevated Following Sepsis Survival
February 1st 2023Investigators found a higher overall health care burden among a large cohort of patients despite their recovery from sepsis, with potential long-term implications and higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
Read More
Examining Telehealth Uptake to Increase Equitable Care Access
January 26th 2023To mark the publication of The American Journal of Managed Care®’s 12th annual health IT issue, on this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Christopher M. Whaley, PhD, health care economist at the RAND Corporation, who focuses on health economics issues, including the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care delivery.
Listen
The government is allowing Medicare Advantage (MA) plans to delay returning hundreds of millions of dollars or more in government overpayments; a proposed new extension of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) might make birth control coverage more accessible for certain private insurance plans; a study found that students lost around 33% of their school year because of the pandemic’s educational barriers and are struggling to regain that lost time.
Read More
2 Clarke Drive
Cranbury, NJ 08512