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Impact of a Pharmacy-Based Transitional Care Program on Hospital ReadmissionsPatients 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.
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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.
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Pilot-Testing a New Program for Providing Personalized and Patient-Centered Preventive CareProgram that enhances personalized and patient-centered preventive care at a busy inner-city primary care clinic may be associated with improved health outcomes.
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Lynch Syndrome Screening Implementation: Business Analysis by a Healthcare SystemThis study synthesized published evidence on Lynch syndrome screening and expanded that evidence to match the decision needs of internal decision makers.
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Turnover Among New Medicare Advantage Enrollees May Be Greater Than PerceivedEnrollees who join Medicare Advantage undergo significant turnover in the years following enrollment.
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Hospital Readmission Among Participants in a Transitional Case Management ProgramCostly new breast cancer therapies augment the significant burden this disease places on healthcare resources, but in context they may still provide value to society.
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Impact of Cost-Sharing on Treatment Augmentation in Patients With DepressionHigher patient cost-sharing is associated with a lower likelihood of treatment augmentation in patients with depression who are treated with antidepressants.
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Inpatient Electronic Health Record Maintenance From 2010 to 2015In 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.
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Health System Correlates of Receipt of Radiation Therapy After Breast-Conserving Surgery: A Study of Low-Income Medicaid-Enrolled WomenOmission 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.
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Predictors of Physician Use of Inpatient Electronic Health RecordsHospital and physician-hospital alignment, but not loyalty, are predictors of integrated electronic health record adoption by admitting physicians in an integrated system.
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Poor Self-rated Mental Health and Medicare Beneficiaries’ Routine Care-SeekingEfforts are needed to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries with poor mental health receive regular routine care, which may be facilitated by having a personal doctor.
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Measuring Migraine-Related Quality of Care Across 10 Health PlansStandardized measurement of migraine, an underdiagnosed and perhaps underrecognized condition, is necessary for health plans to understand utilization of costly diagnostic and treatment services.
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Understanding Suboptimal e-Consult Requests: Lessons From the VAUS 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.
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Automated Detection of Retinal DiseaseWith 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.
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Health Insurance, Blood Cancer Care, and Outcomes: A Literature Reviewdoi: 10.37765/ajmc.2021.88733
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Impact of Workplace Health Services on Adherence to Chronic MedicationsPatients who used workplace primary care and pharmacy services had higher adherence rates to medications for their chronic conditions than community-treated patients.
