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Higher Risk of ILD in Patients With RA, PsA Initiating bDMARDsThere were no differences in risk between patients with RA or PsA using or not using methotrexate.
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Management of MPN: Benchmarks For Quality CareRuben Mesa, MD, leads a discussion on key benchmarks and final thoughts about good-quality care programs for patients with MPNs, including parameters for judging efficacy and safety.
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The Accelerated Approval Program for Oncology Drugs: Celebrating More Than 250,000 Life-Years Gained and CountingThis commentary explores how 2 recently published studies evaluating the clinical benefit of the FDA’s accelerated approval program for oncology drugs came to different conclusions.
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An Accelerated Hospital Observation Pathway to Reduce Length of Stay for Patients With COVID-19For select patients hospitalized due to COVID-19, an academic urban hospital implemented an observation pathway that incorporated mobile health technology, reducing hospital length of stay by more than 2 days.
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Leveraging Longitudinal Clinical Laboratory Results to Improve Prenatal CareCollaboration between a clinical laboratory and a managed care organization improved prenatal care and outcomes through real-time, actionable, laboratory-derived insights and care coordination.
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Care Coordination in Primary Care: Mapping the TerritoryA survey completed by 100% of leaders of diverse care systems in Minnesota participating in an observational study showed little difference in approach to care coordination.
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Contributor: Top 3 Future Therapies to Drive Hemophilia Treatment Market GrowthThe trends in the hemophilia treatment market are gaining momentum with increasing incidences of hemophilia A and B and staggering need for their treatments, including gene, anti-tissue factor pathway inhibitor, and factor replacement therapies.
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Proposed Framework for Patient-Centered Outcomes-Based Measures in Alternative Payment ModelsSynthesis of multistakeholder perspectives from a mixed-methods study identifies guiding characteristics for outcomes-based quality measures in future, more patient-centered alternative payment models.
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Contributor: How Health Care Companies Can Use Upskilling to Navigate the Great ResignationThe Great Resignation is sending health care workers out of the industry in massive numbers, and this, coupled with the ongoing transformation of health care, is creating the perfect storm. Alleviating their stress, burnout, and disengagement is a necessary first step. But the proper development, training, and upskilling is also crucial.
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices Regarding ChatGPT Among Health Care ProfessionalsThis web-based cross-sectional study indicated that health care professionals in China had poor knowledge, positive attitudes, and proactive practices in regard to ChatGPT.
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Distinct Health Care Use Patterns of Patients With Chronic Gastrointestinal DiseasesPatients with complex chronic disease can be grouped by varying propensity for health care continuity patterns, which could be harnessed to personalize health care utilization interventions.
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AHA Telemetry Guidelines Improve Telemetry Utilization in the Inpatient SettingUsing Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, the studied intervention reduced hospital inpatient telemetry time by 51.25% while increasing American Heart Association (AHA) guideline–based usage.
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Challenges With Implementing the Diabetes Prevention Program for Medicare Beneficiaries in an Integrated Health SystemThis study presents challenges of implementing the CDC-approved Diabetes Prevention Program for Medicare beneficiaries at a large, integrated health care delivery system.
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Accountable Care Organizations and HPV Vaccine Uptake: A Multilevel AnalysisThe authors evaluated whether adolescents receiving care at accountable care organizations (ACOs) vs non-ACOs were more likely to initiate and complete the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination series.
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Pharmacists and Transitions of Care From Emergency Department to HomePharmacists’ roles in transitions of care continue to evolve. Evaluation of pharmacist-led interventions as patients transition from emergency department to home is needed.
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Endoscopist-Directed Sedation Rarely Fails: Implications for the Value of Anesthesia Assistance for Routine GI EndoscopyFailed sedation for routine gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is extremely rare, warranting a return to endoscopist-directed sedation, rather than costly anesthesia-assisted sedation, as the default sedation standard.
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The Hepatitis B Care Cascade Using Administrative Claims Data, 2016Analysis of a large, nationally representative claims database to longitudinally monitor enrollees with hepatitis B showed that 36% received recommended care and 18% were prescribed treatment.
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Interventional Analytics in Skilled Nursing Facilities Associated With Reduced ReadmissionsA retrospective analysis of 30-day risk-adjusted readmission rates among skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) between 2017 and 2022 compared those that had implemented an interventional analytics platform and other SNFs.
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Pharmacist Hypertension Management Using an Electronic Health Record–Based ApproachThe authors studied the impact of a pharmacist intervention on blood pressure control compared with usual care.
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Contributor: How Payers Are Applying AI to Solve the Problem of Incomplete Data—3 Use CasesIn this column, Calum Yacoubian, MD, outlines how artificial intelligence, specifically, natural language processing, can help address gaps in patient data.
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Breaking Barriers: Partnerships to Improve Diabetic Eye Health in AlabamaThis article reviews barriers to diabetic eye health across Alabama and highlights a partnership with Genentech and the American Diabetes Association to address this issue.
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Risk Adjusting for Medicaid Participation in Medicare AdvantageWhen comparing risk-adjustment approaches based on Medicaid status of Medicare beneficiaries, this analysis found that predicted spending levels varied depending on states’ Medicaid eligibility criteria.
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Aligning Specialist Physicians With Accountable Care OrganizationsAn editorial in response to the editor in chief’s December 2021 letter discusses alignment of specialist physicians with value-based care initiatives.
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Impact of Payment Models on Medical Specialist Physician Practice PatternsThis article explores the impact of payment models (fee for service vs salary based) on practice patterns, including wait times and care for patients with chronic diseases.
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Industry-Informed Perspectives on the Benefits of Rideshare-Based Medical TransportationPrevious research on rideshare-based nonemergency medical transportation has limited generalizability due to the specific model studied, and the lack of trip-level data raises concerns of ecological fallacy.
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Doctors Hate Deductibles: Physicians Pay Thousands to Avoid High DeductiblesNinety percent of physicians did not select a high-deductible health plan although it would save them $1500 to $4000 per year regardless of health spending.
