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Improving Endoscopy Completion: Effectiveness of an Interactive Voice Response SystemAn interactive voice response system is as effective as nurse phone calls for ensuring that patients attend appointments and are adequately prepared for endoscopy examinations.
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Cancer Care Disparities: Research Regarding Timeliness and Potential CoordinationHealthcare organizations and researchers should challenge themselves to provide increasingly timely data on cancer care disparities, until delays can be remedied as they happen.
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Crisis Into Opportunity: Can COVID-19 Help Set a Path to Improved Health Care Efficiency?With a “new normal” level of care going forward post coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the key will be to invest in high-value services while deterring a resurgence of low-value care.
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A Way Out of the Dismal Arithmetic of Hepatitis C TreatmentThis special issue presents important new peer-reviewed research, covering issues ranging from access and the out-of-pocket costs of a treatment course, to the real-world consequences-both economic and clinical-of failing to treat.
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Late Diagnosis of Hepatitis C Virus Infection, 2014-2016: Continuing Missed Intervention OpportunitiesLate hepatitis C virus infection diagnosis points to a need for earlier screening and treatment before the onset of severe liver disease leading to high cost and diminished outcomes.
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Development and Validation of the COVID-19 Hospitalized Patient Deterioration IndexThe authors developed and validated an accurate, well-calibrated, easy-to-implement COVID-19 hospitalized patient deterioration index to identify patients at high or low risk of clinical deterioration.
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Adjunctive Aripiprazole for Depression: Predictive Value of Early AssessmentIn treatment of depression with adjunctive aripiprazole, early improvement (week 2) was a significant predictor of remission, and lack of improvement was associated with nonremission.
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Impact of Medical Homes on Quality, Healthcare Utilization, and CostsPatient-centered medical home practices provided better preventive care and disease management with less resource utilization than practices not pursuing PCMH status.
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Age and Rural Residence Effects on Accessing Colorectal Cancer Treatments: A Registry StudyOlder patients with colorectal cancer were less likely to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy; rural patients with colon cancer were less likely to undergo chemotherapy.
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Does Telephone Care Management Help Medicaid Beneficiaries With Depression?Telephone care management increased mental health service use for Medicaid beneficiaries with depression but did not reduce depression severity. More intensive services may be needed.
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Performance Measurement for People With Multiple Chronic Conditions: Conceptual ModelThe Performance Measurement for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions conceptual model can facilitate development and refinement of quality measures for a medically complex population.
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Low-Value Care for Acute Sinusitis Encounters: Who's Choosing Wisely?Acute sinusitis is a common acute illness and offers an opportunity to eliminate low-value care. The authors describe current practices, comparing primary care, urgent care, and the emergency department.
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Implications of DRG Classification in a Bundled Payment Initiative for COPDDiagnosis-related group coding determines eligibility for many Medicare bundled payment initiatives. This approach excluded many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease likely to benefit while including others without the disease.
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Electronic Health Record Availability Among Advanced Practice Registered Nurses and PhysiciansAvailability of electronic health records among advanced practice nurses and physicians in California is concentrated among large practices with fewer Medicaid patients.
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Cost Differential of Immuno-Oncology Therapy Delivered at Community Versus Hospital ClinicsAdministration of immuno-oncology therapy for cancer diagnoses in the community clinic setting is associated with lower costs compared with administration in a hospital-based clinic setting.
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Predictive Model for Emergency Hospital Admission and 6-Month ReadmissionPredictive models for hospital admissions and readmissions in persons aged >65 years have been developed through a combination of comorbidity and previous healthcare use.
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Step-Up Care Improves Impairment in Uncontrolled Asthma: An Administrative Data StudySignificant clinically meaningful improvements in asthma impairment are documented by administrative data for 1 year after initiation of step-up care in patients with uncontrolled asthma.
