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Cost-effectiveness of Brentuximab Vedotin With Chemotherapy in Treatment of CD30-Expressing PTCLAn economic model based on the ECHELON-2 trial demonstrated cost-effectiveness of brentuximab vedotin with chemotherapy in frontline treatment of CD30-expressing peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL).
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Evaluation of Collaborative Therapy Review to Improve Care of Heart Failure PatientsWe implemented and evaluated a collaborative therapy review process aimed at optimizing heart failure therapy among patients managed by their primary care providers.
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Preventive Care for Chronically Ill Children in Medicaid Managed CareThe existence of chronic conditions did not adversely impact the ability of children in Medicaid managed care to access and utilize recommended preventive care services.
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Two-Sided Risk in the Oncology Care ModelThe US healthcare system remains one of the most inefficient healthcare systems in the world. The Bloomberg Health-Care Efficiency Index ranked the United States 54th among 56 countries in 2018, tied with Azerbaijan and only ahead of Bulgaria. This occurs even though the United States spends $10,244 per capita annually on healthcare, a figure representing 17% of the gross domestic product.
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CancerLinQ - ASCO's Rapid Learning System to Improve Quality and Personalize InsightsCancerLinQ is a big data platform developed by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) that aggregates clinical data from electronic health records for quality benchmarking and hypothesis generation. Such observational data can complement traditional evidence but must be used with caution.
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Costs Associated With Long-Acting Insulin Analogues in Patients With DiabetesFindings from a literature review indicate that overall costs of long-acting insulin analogues are not significantly different from those of intermediate-acting human insulin and oral antidiabetic agents.
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Collaborative DTM Reduces Hospitalization and Healthcare Costs in Patients With Diabetes Treated With PolypharmacyDrug therapy management implementation in 2 health plans resulted in significant cost savings and modest to significant reductions in emergency department visits and inpatient admissions among patients with diabetes.
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Paying for TelemedicineWith effective methods of promoting telemedicine yet to be established, new risk-based payment models offer the greatest potential for telemedicine's effective and efficient use.
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Health Literacy and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among the Elderly: A Study From a Patient-Centered Medical HomeA study to determine the health literacy of elderly patients and establish whether an association exists between health literacy and cardiovascular disease risk factors.
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Tracking Spending Among Commercially Insured Beneficiaries Using a Distributed Data ModelThe authors demonstrate the utility of distributed data models for reporting of local trends and variation in utilization, pricing, and spending for commercially insured beneficiaries.
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How Comorbidities and Preoperative Expenditures Correlate With Postoperative Adverse OutcomesAdjusting for patients' covariates, postoperative complications and mortality among geriatric surgical patients exhibited an age-dependent, illness-related, and preoperative medical expense“associated pattern under universal healthcare coverage.
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Impact of Switching Analogue Insulin to Human Insulin in DiabetesConverting from analogue insulin to human insulin is associated with a clinical insignificant increase in glycated hemoglobin of 0.16% but with improved insulin adherence.
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Case-Mix Adjustment for Diabetes Indicators: A Systematic ReviewA systematic review of the impact and rationale for the selection of adjustment factors (case-mix factors) used to describe performance in diabetes care.
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A Descriptive Study of Patients Receiving Foundational Financial Assistance Through Local Specialty PharmaciesLocal specialty pharmacies collaborated with a charitable assistance organization to provide a safety net and to facilitate care for patients with chronic illnesses, allowing them to focus on receiving and adhering to medication, rather than on financial toxicity.
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Shifting Cardiovascular Care to Nurses Results in Structured Chronic CareThis study sought to explore if shifting care to nurses in cardiovascular risk management in primary care is a key to more structured chronic care.
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Using Clinically Nuanced Cost Sharing to Enhance Consumer Access to Specialty MedicationsIn conjunction with provider-oriented payment reform, tools like VBID that change the focus from how much to how well we spend our healthcare dollars.
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Primary Care Physicians' Experiences With Case Finding for Practice-Based Care ManagementCriteria used by primary care physicians to select patients for practice-based care management programs were explored in a qualitative study.
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Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drug Initiation Among Patients Newly Diagnosed With Rheumatoid ArthritisOnly slightly more than half of patients with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis initiated therapy within 1 year.
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Implementing an Oncology Precision Medicine Clinic in a Large Community Health SystemPrecision medicine is increasingly being utilized in oncology. Aurora Health Care has implemented Syapse software to integrate molecular data into the electronic health record to accommodate precision medicine findings.
