Authors
Latest:
Call Center Performance Affects Patient Perceptions of Access and SatisfactionGreater telephone wait times, but not abandonment rates, were associated with lower patient perceptions of their ability to obtain urgent care in a timely manner.
Latest:
Impact of After-Hours Telemedicine on Hospitalizations in a Skilled Nursing FacilityA case study highlighting clinical and financial outcomes of an after-hours on-demand telemedicine intervention in a skilled nursing facility.
Latest:
Advancing Health Equity in the Workforce: Kimberly Westrich, MAEmployers have a unique role in helping to close health equity gaps among employees and their families, explained Kimberly Westrich, MA, chief strategy officer at the National Pharmaceutical Council.
Latest:
Patient Experience Over Time in Patient-Centered Medical HomesIn this study, the Patient-Centered Medical Home was associated with improvements in patients' experience with access to care but not other domains of care.
Latest:
CHAPTER 4. Guideline for the Care of the Older Adult With DiabetesFrom the Adult Diabetes and Clinical Research sections, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. This guideline was revised and approved May 17, 2017, and updated February 7, 2018.
Latest:
Unintended Consequences of a Quality Measure for Acute BronchitisA quality measure reduced antibiotic use for patients with acute bronchitis but led to use of an alternative diagnosis, offsetting most of the observed improvement.
Latest:
Information Technology and Hospital Patient Safety: A Cross-Sectional Study of US Acute Care HospitalsUse of health information technology in acute care settings is associated with modestly lower rates of adverse patient safety outcomes for inpatient and surgical care.
Latest:
Impact of Certified CME in Atrial Fibrillation on Administrative ClaimsUse of administrative claims data is an innovative way of measuring the effect of continuing medical education on physician practice behavior and patient outcomes.
Latest:
Patients' Views on Price Shopping and Price TransparencyThe authors interviewed patients with access to a price transparency website. Despite a positive opinion of price shopping in theory, respondents reported barriers to doing so in reality.
Latest:
Postdischarge Telephone Calls by Hospitalists as a Transitional Care StrategyTreating hospitalists effectively identify and efficiently address early postdischarge problems through a single, brief telephone encounter.
Latest:
Stakeholder Analysis: Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Awareness and ImplementationThis article describes facilitators of and barriers to uptake of the underutilized Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program from the perspectives of health care providers and program suppliers in western Pennsylvania.
Latest:
Collection of Language Data and Services Provided by Health PlansHealth plans have made substantial progress in the collection of language data and many are offering options for language services.
Latest:
Which Patients Are Persistently High-Risk for Hospitalization?Most patients in a large integrated healthcare system who were high-risk for hospitalization were at substantially lower risk within 2 years.
Latest:
Incidence and Cost of CAP in a Large Working-Age PopulationApproximately 5% of non-elderly adults have a community acquired pneumonia (CAP) annually, with an annual total of $10.6 billion in direct and indirect costs.
Latest:
Racial Disparities in Lipid Control in Patients With DiabetesAfrican Americans with diabetes are less likely than whites to be treated with lipid-lowering agents, have their medication altered, or reach LDL-C goal.
Latest:
Having a Consistent HIV Health Care Provider and HIV-Related Clinical OutcomesThe study examined the association of having a consistent HIV health care provider with related clinical outcomes, with an emphasis on a long-term physician-patient relationship.
Latest:
Cost-Effectiveness of a Patient Navigation Program to Improve Cervical Cancer ScreeningThis study investigates the cost-effectiveness of a community-based patient navigation program to improve cervical cancer screening.
Latest:
Differential Impact of Mental Health Multimorbidity on Healthcare Costs in DiabetesAssessment of prevalence and specific costs associated with discrete multimorbid mental health disease clusters in adults with diabetes.
Latest:
Inpatient Rehabilitation Utilization for Acute Stroke Under a Universal Health Insurance SystemBased on claims data from a universal health insurance system, inpatient stroke rehabilitation use was 34.0% and mainly related to stroke type and stroke severity.
Latest:
Impact of Clinical Complexity on the Quality of Diabetes CareWe examined the impact of clinical complexity defined by comorbidity count and illness burden on comprehensive diabetes care, including blood pressure, glycemic, and lipid management.
