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Comparative Effectiveness Research: Challenges for Medical Journals

In order to encourage dissemination, this commentary is freely available in PLoS Medicine, and will also be published in Medical Decision Making, Croatian Medical Journal, The Cochrane Library, Trials, and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

A System-Based Intervention to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening Uptake

Using an electronic health record to identify and implement colorectal cancer screening in a population of eligible patients achieved higher uptake than a visit-based approach.

Prevalence of Osteoporosis in Men in a VA Rehabilitation Center

Men in a VA rehabilitation unit who had osteoporosis were older and thinner, but otherwise similar (metabolic and functional status) to control subjects.

Preventing Tomorrow’s High-Cost Claims: The Rising-Risk Patient Opportunity in Medicaid

For Medicaid care management, focusing on rising-risk patients is more effective than targeting high-cost claimants, whose spending tends to decrease over time due to regression to the mean.

Case Study D

Advancing Performance Measurement in Oncology

The American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Oncology Practice Initiative has grown to include 973 practices as of 2010. Practices demonstrated rates of end-of-life care and other measures of quality.

Obstetrician-Gynecologist as Primary Care Provider

Impact of Atypical Antipsychotic Use Among Adolescents With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

A retrospective study of the treatment patterns and economic outcomes associated with off-label atypical antipsychotic use in the treatment of adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

A New Gatekeeper for Back Pain

Automated Patient Assessments After Outpatient Surgery Using an Interactive Voice Response System

Using an interactive voice response system to contact patients after outpatient surgery will likely result in improved efficiency without a decrease in assessment quality.

Treatment Patterns Among Adults With ADHD Receiving Long-Acting Therapy

Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who received long-acting combination therapy had significantly lower adherence and persistence compared with those who received long-acting monotherapy.

Relationship Between Provider Type and the Attainment of Treatment Goals in Primary Care

It Is Time to Ask Patients What Outcomes Are Important to Them

Patients with abdominal or back pain identified 21 outcomes important to them, but the reported outcomes are quite different from the symptom and function outcomes studied by researchers.

Heterogeneity of Nonadherent Buprenorphine Patients: Subgroup Characteristics and Outcomes

Patient and treatment heterogeneity were characterized within a sample of nonadherent buprenorphine members; an improved understanding of these factors may optimize patient—treatment matching and intervention efforts.

Case Study C

Health Plans' Coverage Determinations for Technology-based Interventions: The Case of Electrical Bone Growth Stimulation

Frequency of and Harm Associated With Primary Care Safety Incidents

Physicians' and nurses' assessments of the frequency and harm of incidents can be a supplemental method to study patient safety in the primary care office.

Impact of Certified CME in Atrial Fibrillation on Administrative Claims

Use of administrative claims data is an innovative way of measuring the effect of continuing medical education on physician practice behavior and patient outcomes.

Low Clinical Utility of Folate Determinations in Primary Care Setting

It seems that folate determinations in patients without known risk factors for folate deficiency are of little clinical significance.

Colorectal Cancer Screening in the 21st Century: Where Do We Go From Here?

Improving the appropriate use of colorectal cancer screening requires novel approaches to strike a balance between underuse and overuse.

Fetal Fibronectin Testing and Pregnancy Outcomes Among Texas Medicaid Patients at Risk for Preterm Birth

Payer Effects of Personalized Preventive Care for Patients With Diabetes

We examine the effects of MD–Value in Prevention (MDVIP) enrollment on Medicare expenditures and utilization among fee-for-service beneficiaries with diabetes over a 5-year period.

The Curse of Being First: Lessons From Pharma’s Blockbuster Drugs

What can we learn from Biogen's decision to halt sales of aducanumab?

Postpartum Depression

Cost-Offset Analysis: Bimatoprost Versus Other Prostaglandin Analogues in Open-Angle Glaucoma

Treatment of glaucoma with bimatoprost is associated with cost savings compared with treatment with latanoprost or travoprost because of greater intraocular pressure reduction.

Risk Adjustment in Home Health Care CAHPS

The authors disagree with previous research concluding that the Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Services (CAHPS) publicly reported data are insufficiently adjusted for patient comorbidities.

A Systematic Review of Diabetes Disease Management Programs