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Reducing Low-Value Care in VirginiaVirginia is currently focused on creating a collaborative, data-informed process to reduce the use of low-value services and care and better serve patients.
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Patients’ Expectations of Their AnesthesiologistsUnderstanding patients’ expectations, educating them about the role of an anesthesiologist, and involving them in decisions about their medical care can improve patient satisfaction.
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Low Screening and Follow-up for Unhealthy Alcohol Use Among Health Plan BeneficiariesScreening and follow-up for unhealthy alcohol use are low among plan members. Use of standardized screening tools, documentation, and care for alcohol misuse need improvement.
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High-Risk Centers and the Benefits for Lower-Risk TransplantsThere does not appear to be any comparative advantage for low-risk hematopoietic cell transplantation patients to seek care from high-risk centers.
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Early Clinical Experience With Networked System for Promoting Patient Self-ManagementA networked system designed to promote patient self-management appears to be safe and effective in capturing, integrating, and presenting medication adherence and physiologic information.
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Impact of Persistence With Infliximab on Hospitalizations in Ulcerative ColitisTherapeutic persistence with infliximab was associated with signifi cantly fewer ulcerative colitis patients requiring hospitalization; once hospitalized, patients with therapeutic persistence had significantly decreased inpatient costs.
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The Association of Health Literacy Domains With Hospitalizations and MortalityDespite previous research evidence, this study did not reveal an overall association of health literacy, numeracy, and graph literacy with all-cause hospitalizations or mortality.
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Pharmaceutical Company Influence on Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Prescribing BehaviorsThis study describes the social and communicative strategies pharmaceutical companies use to influence NSAID prescribing behaviors and elicits physicians' perceptions and counterbalances to these strategies.
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The Relationship Between Preventive Dental Care and Overall Medical ExpendituresUsing an instrumental variable approach, this study is the first to present causal estimates of the effect of preventive dental visits on overall medical expenditures.
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The Association Between Insurance Type and Cost-Related Delay in Care: A SurveyIn a survey of patients and visitors to a large academic medical center, middle-income respondents with private insurance reported more cost-related delays in care than those with public insurance.
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Review of Veterans Health Administration Telemedicine InterventionsA review of exemplary VHA-sponsored telemedicine interventions indicates that telemedicine can efficiently address patient healthcare needs.
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Do Localized Disasters Impact Clinical Measures of Health Care Quality?This study examines the impact of geographically limited disasters on health care quality performance scores of Medicare Advantage contracts, finding limited impact on performance scores.
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A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Over-the-Counter StatinsThis paper estimates the costs and benefits of over-the-counter (OTC) statins using data on statin use and cardiovascular risk, clinical studies of statin safety and efficacy, and an OTC statin use trial.
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Adalimumab Persistence for Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Veteran and Insured CohortsVeterans with inflammatory bowel disease taking adalimumab appear to be more likely to remain on the drug 1 year after initiation than patients who are privately insured.
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Measuring Concurrent Adherence to Multiple Related MedicationsThis study compares the performance of several definitions of concurrent adherence to related medications.
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Health Insurance in India: Need for Managed Care ExpertiseIndia's emerging health insurance sector faces significant operational challenges that managed care models can help to address.
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Depression Self-Management Assistance Using Automated Telephonic Assessments and Social SupportAutomated patient support calls with feedback to informal caregivers and clinicians represent a viable strategy for increasing access to depression monitoring and self-management assistance.
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Geographic Variation in Surgical Outcomes and Cost Between the United States and JapanCompared with Japan, the United States has substantially less geographic variation in surgical outcomes, but it has higher variation in cost.
