Authors




Weiyi Ni, PhD

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Impact of a Pharmacy-Based Transitional Care Program on Hospital Readmissions

Patients receiving postdischarge care from pharmacists had a 28% lower risk of readmission at 30 days and a 31.9% lower risk at 180 days compared with usual care.


Nancy A. Jaeckels, BS

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Effective Implementation of Collaborative Care for Depression: What Is Needed?

Factors most important for successful implementation of collaborative care for depression differ for patient activation versus achieving remission; both are critical to program success.



Catherine Ekeleme, MPH

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Pilot-Testing a New Program for Providing Personalized and Patient-Centered Preventive Care

Program that enhances personalized and patient-centered preventive care at a busy inner-city primary care clinic may be associated with improved health outcomes.


James M. Gudgeon, MS, MBA

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Lynch Syndrome Screening Implementation: Business Analysis by a Healthcare System

This study synthesized published evidence on Lynch syndrome screening and expanded that evidence to match the decision needs of internal decision makers.



Alan M. Zaslavsky, PhD

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Turnover Among New Medicare Advantage Enrollees May Be Greater Than Perceived

Enrollees who join Medicare Advantage undergo significant turnover in the years following enrollment.




David J. Rak, MPH

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Hospital Readmission Among Participants in a Transitional Case Management Program

Costly new breast cancer therapies augment the significant burden this disease places on healthcare resources, but in context they may still provide value to society.


John A. Bates, PhD

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Impact of Cost-Sharing on Treatment Augmentation in Patients With Depression

Higher patient cost-sharing is associated with a lower likelihood of treatment augmentation in patients with depression who are treated with antidepressants.


Nimah Haq, MPH

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Inpatient Electronic Health Record Maintenance From 2010 to 2015

In the 6 years following inpatient electronic health record (EHR) implementation, an average of 2.5 significant EHR changes per day were made for maintenance and improvement.


Gretchen G. Kimmick, MD, MS

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Health System Correlates of Receipt of Radiation Therapy After Breast-Conserving Surgery: A Study of Low-Income Medicaid-Enrolled Women

Omission of radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery leads to poor outcomes. Geographic isolation and scarcity of healthcare specialists correlate with low adjuvant radiation therapy use.


James A. Neff, PhD, MPH

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Predictors of Physician Use of Inpatient Electronic Health Records

Hospital and physician-hospital alignment, but not loyalty, are predictors of integrated electronic health record adoption by admitting physicians in an integrated system.









Ron D. Hays, PhD

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Poor Self-rated Mental Health and Medicare Beneficiaries’ Routine Care-Seeking

Efforts are needed to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries with poor mental health receive regular routine care, which may be facilitated by having a personal doctor.


Jon Bumbaugh, MA

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Measuring Migraine-Related Quality of Care Across 10 Health Plans

Standardized measurement of migraine, an underdiagnosed and perhaps underrecognized condition, is necessary for health plans to understand utilization of costly diagnostic and treatment services.


Ekaterina Anderson, PhD

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Understanding Suboptimal e-Consult Requests: Lessons From the VA

US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clinicians’ perspectives on what constitutes a good e-consult and why suboptimal e-consult requests occur contain broadly applicable lessons for other health systems.


Harold P. Lehmann, MD, PhD

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Automated Detection of Retinal Disease

With diabetes rates projected to rise sharply, automated retinal screening may represent an attractive low-cost option to meet the growing demand for routine screening services.




Sharon Glave Frazee, PhD

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Impact of Workplace Health Services on Adherence to Chronic Medications

Patients who used workplace primary care and pharmacy services had higher adherence rates to medications for their chronic conditions than community-treated patients.

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