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Promoters of Therapeutic Inertia in Managing Hypertension: A Consensus-Based StudyThe authors identified consensus-based promoters of clinical inertia in managing hypertension. Policy makers should address these promoters to improve health-related outcomes in hypertension.
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Health Insurance, Blood Cancer Care, and Outcomes: A Literature Reviewdoi: 10.37765/ajmc.2021.88733
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Improving Pain Clinic Outcomes With Preappointment Surveys: Data-Driven Policy ChangeImplementing a policy change to require preappointment surveys before scheduling initial clinic evaluations can improve wait-list times and show rates.
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Diabetes, Gaps in Care Coordination, and Preventable Adverse EventsThe authors examined the association of diabetes with self-reported gaps in care coordination and self-reported preventable adverse events using data from a national sample of older adults.
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Type 2 Diabetes Patient Activation and mHealth Interventions Decreased Cardiovascular Disease RiskMobile health (mHealth) and a patient activation program could serve as a model for improving health outcomes for patients in outpatient clinical settings by decreasing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk score.
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Cost Savings From an mHealth Tool for Improving Medication AdherenceThe Wellth smartphone app significantly increased medication adherence and lowered unnecessary health care utilization and costs over 9 months among Medicaid beneficiaries who were self-managing chronic conditions.
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Contributor: Improving Utilization Management Can Better Outcomes, Cut Costs in Cardiovascular CareRussell Rotondo, MD, FACC, medical director of clinical strategy and innovation for cardiology at Cohere Health, discusses the myriad positive ways utilization management programs can have an impact on patient outcomes in cardiovascular care.
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Other Challenges With Bronchiectasis and Key TakeawaysAn exploration of idiopathic bronchiectasis, emphasizing the importance of patient participation in clinical trials to advance knowledge and treatment options for this condition, along with concluding thoughts and key takeaways on the management and understanding of bronchiectasis.
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Unfulfilled Home Health Referrals Lead to Higher Mortality Among Medicare Advantage MembersMedicare Advantage members referred to home health after acute hospitalization who did not receive home health services had higher mortality at 30, 90, and 180 days.
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Managed Care Should Implement Cloud-Based CybersecurityAt the heart of a defensive strategy against ransomware and other cybersecurity risks is a cloud-based approach to protecting data.
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Pharmaceutical Care Services for Patients With Diabetes: A Systematic Scoping ReviewMajor databases were systematically searched for articles reporting on pharmaceutical care services for patients with diabetes, and 86 pharmaceutical care services were qualitatively synthesized.
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Rising Incidence of Young-Onset Cancer: Causes and Generational Risk FactorsAt ESMO Congress 2024, Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, MS, explained that the rising incidence of young-onset cancer may be due to generational risk factors such as lifestyle, diet, and environmental changes, emphasizing the need for long-term research and follow up to understand early-life influences on cancer development.
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A Multistakeholder Effort in Pennsylvania to Improve the Accuracy of Reporting Fatal Drug OverdosesThe authors describe a novel training program for death certifiers in Pennsylvania, which has been designed to specifically focus on some of the main challenges in the death certification process and resulted in a useful model that can potentially be adopted by other states or municipalities.
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Characterizing Obesity in a Large Health Care Delivery System.The prevalence of obesity in the Sutter Health system between 2015 and 2020 was 35%. Differences by race/ethnicity, health insurance, smoking status, and comorbidities were examined.
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Economic Burden of Joint Disease in Psoriasis: US Claims AnalysisThis retrospective claims analysis found that concomitant joint disease in psoriasis is associated with greater health care resource utilization and health care costs than psoriasis alone.
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Modeling the Economic Value of Cardiometabolic Virtual-First Care ProgramsUsing a microsimulation approach, this study modeled the potential multiyear health and economic benefits of participating in cardiometabolic virtual-first care programs.
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Properties of the Overall Hospital Star Ratings and Consumer ChoiceThe CMS Star Ratings may be of limited value for patients choosing hospitals for specific care needs.
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Falls, Balance Issues Signal Higher ICANS Risk in NHLAdverse physical functions were indicative of reduced survival and increased risk of immune effector cell–associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) previously treated with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.
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Community Health Workers’ Critical Role in Trust Building Between the Medical System and Communities of ColorThe authors interrogate elements of routine medical practice in New York City to argue for reforms of hospital culture through relational trust-building capabilities of community health workers.
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The Promising Future of Alzheimer Disease TreatmentPanelists conclude the discussion with personal insight into the promising future of Alzheimer disease treatment.
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Prolonged Cessation of Chronic Opioid Analgesic Therapy: A Multidisciplinary InterventionThis article evaluates the immediate and long-term efficacy of a group multidisciplinary program for chronic opioid analgesic therapy cessation in the setting of chronic, noncancer pain.
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Sacubitril/Valsartan in Medicare Alternative Payment ModelsOptimizing utilization of sacubitril/valsartan for treatment of heart failure could improve provider performance in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative and the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
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Service Line Care Delivery Model for COVID-19 Patient-Centric CareThe authors provide steps hospitals can take to align their care delivery model to effectively meet the demands of a public health crisis such as the current pandemic.
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Myasthenia Gravis Trial Set for CAR T CABA-201The chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR T) from Cabaletta Bio has already been cleared for trials in systemic lupus erythematosus, myositis, and systemic sclerosis.
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Development of Multipayer Claims-Based Emergency Department Episodes of CareThirty-day episodes of care initialized by emergency department visits can inform future quality improvement efforts.
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Policy Solutions to Facilitate the New eCQM ACO Reporting and Advancement of InteroperabilityThis article describes the challenges associated with aggregating and reporting quality data via electronic health records and discusses corresponding policy solutions.
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Discharge Prescribing and Subsequent Opioid Use After Traumatic Musculoskeletal InjuryThe authors use surgical resident assignment as an instrumental variable for discharge opioid prescribing and estimate the impact of discharge opioid supply on subsequent use.
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A Clinical Pathway to Well-Being: Putting Patient Priorities at the Center of CareUsing patient priorities and converting them into treatment goals result in better primary care outcomes for Medicare patients.
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Association Between Low-Income Subsidies and Inequities in Orally Administered Antimyeloma Therapy UseMedicare Part D low-income subsidies alone are insufficient to improve the uptake and equitable use of high-cost, orally administered antimyeloma therapy.
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Mortality Risk Stratification Can Predict Readmissions but Not Length of StayMortality risk stratification can identify patients at higher risk of mortality and readmissions for prevention strategies. Other patients should be the focus of length-of-stay reduction strategies.
