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Socioeconomic Disparities in Adoption of Personal Health Records Over TimeOver 4 years, rates of personal health record use increased rapidly across the board, but a digital divide remained evident.
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US Insurance Program's Experience With a Multigene Assay for Early-Stage Breast CancerThis study presents Humana's experience with a multigene breast cancer assay and provides an analysis of the clinical utility and economics of this technology.
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Two-Year Adherence and Costs for Biologic Therapy for Rheumatoid ArthritisAdherence to newly initiated biologic therapy for rheumatoid arthritis is important for long-term adherence.
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Changing Demographics Among Populations Prescribed HCV Treatment, 2013-2017From 2013 to 2017, the population of US patients prescribed treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) changed, becoming predominantly treatment-naïve and having received care in nonacademic centers.
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Physician ePortfolio: The Missing Piece for Linking Performance With ImprovementClinical data should contribute to practice-based learning and improvement, resulting in improved patient care as well as meeting increasingly rigorous physician accountability requirements.
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Therapeutic Choice and Outcomes at the Physician LevelAnupam Jena, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Healthcare Policy, Harvard Medical School, presented research on how therapeutic choice and patient outcomes vary at the physician level.
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Dietary Diversity Predicts Type of Medical Expenditure in EldersGreater dietary diversity is associated with lower emergency and hospitalization utilization and expenditures, and identifies a policy direction for nutritionally disadvantaged groups.
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Adaptation of an Asthma Management Program to a Small ClinicThe authors adapted a successful large-scale, specialist-run asthma management program to an existing multi-specialty clinic utilizing existing resources and achieving similar outcomes.
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How Pooling Fragmented Healthcare Encounter Data Affects Hospital ProfilingIncomplete records of patient history can bias hospital profiling. Completing health records for Medicare-covered patients in VA hospitals resulted in modest changes in hospital performance.
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Mobile Health Clinics in the Era of ReformThis article reviews the mobile clinic sector's impact on access, quality, and costs, and explores postreform opportunities for leveraging them nationally.
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Changes in Hospital Admissions for Urgent Conditions During COVID-19 PandemicAdmission rates during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic were lower than in 2019 for acute medical conditions, suggesting that patients may be deferring necessary medical care.
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GRACE Principles: Recognizing High-Quality Observational Studies of Comparative EffectivenessThe GRACE principles lay out 3 questions to help healthcare providers, patients, and other decision makers evaluate the quality of noninterventional comparative effectiveness studies.
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Drivers of Excess Costs of Opioid Abuse Among a Commercially Insured PopulationThe healthcare burden of opioid abuse is substantial; abusers often have complex healthcare needs and may require care beyond that which is required to treat abuse.
