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Increasing Trust in Health CareThis commentary describes 4 dimensions of trust that have been illuminated by contributions from leading health care organizations to the ABIM Foundation’s Trust Practices Network.
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Oral Antidiabetic Medication Adherence and Glycemic Control in Managed CareIn this retrospective study of patients with diabetes, adherent patients were more likely to achieve glycemic control than nonadherent patients.
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Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Utilization, and Costs of Chronic Opioid Treatment for Non-Cancer Pain in the United StatesHealthcare utilization and costs increased in the 6 months after patients started opioid therapy for chronic pain; they then decreased but never reverted to baseline levels.
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Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes and Satisfaction for Quality AssessmentsUnderstanding the relationships among patient-reported outcomes, satisfaction, and quality is the first step in drawing meaningful conclusions that can then be translated into policy.
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Implications of Eligibility Category Churn for Pediatric Payment in MedicaidAnalyses of Ohio Medicaid claims data from 2013 to 2015 reveal that instability among eligibility categories is common and affects average capitation but not health service use.
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Process of Care Compliance Is Associated With Fewer Diabetes ComplicationsAdherence to process of care measures was associated with reduced risk of 2 diabetes complications or any of 4 complications in a national industrial cohort.
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Examining the Reality of What Insulin Costs Do to PatientsThe editor-in-chief of Evidence-Based Diabetes Management™ introduces the special issue, Perspectives on Insulin Pricing, and shares that he has seen rationing among his own patients.
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Reduced Medical Spending Associated With Integrated Pharmacy BenefitsMembers covered by an integrated pharmacy benefit (as opposed to a pharmacy carve-out) experienced slower growth in medical spending.
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Factors Associated With Timeliness in Academic General Surgery Clinics: A Prospective Quality AssessmentThe participation of residents and physician assistants significantly increased patient wait time without reducing the attending surgeon’s consultation length in outpatient surgery clinics.
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Formulary Considerations: The Past, Present, and FutureThe hospital formulary system is an ongoing process that evaluates and selects the safest, most effective, and most economical care for hospitalized patients. As healthcare continues to change, so will the formulary management process.
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Referring Wisely: Orthopedic Referral Guidelines at an Academic InstitutionThe authors used the modified Delphi method to develop local orthopedic referral guidelines, enabling detailed decision support and non—face-to-face consultation at the point of referral.
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Primary Care Physician Practice Styles and Quality, Cost, and ProductivityPrimary care physicians who address multiple problems during acute care visits achieve better clinical scores, comparable patient experience, and lower annual cost.
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Why Are Medicare and Commercial Insurance Spending Weakly Correlated?The weak correlation between Medicare and commercial insurance spending is due to negative correlations between each sector's price and the other sector's volume.
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Depression Care Following Psychiatric Hospitalization in the Veterans Health AdministrationDifferent patient characteristics predict adequate antidepressant treatment after hospitalization, received by 58.7% of patients, versus adequate psychotherapy, received by 12.9% of patients.
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Massachusetts Health Reform and Veterans Affairs Health System EnrollmentHealth reform increased Medicaid enrollment, but was not associated with Veterans Health Administration and private insurance enrollment among Massachusetts veterans.
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Critical Incident Stress Debriefing After Adverse Patient Safety EventsThe authors explore the potential value of providing critical incident stress debriefing for health professionals involved in adverse patient safety events and the instances in which this could be routinely implemented.
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Patient Engagement Is Mandatory at Our TableThe Bonnie Addario Lung Cancer Foundation has developed a registry that can serve as a repository for data on patients with lung cancer-a means to empower patients and assist care providers to deliver personalized medicine in a patient-centered manner.
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The Value of Virtual Physical Therapy for Musculoskeletal CareThis counterfactual simulation study on a nationally representative sample of the working population with musculoskeletal conditions estimated the value of patient-initiated virtual physical therapy.
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An Expanded Portfolio of Survival Metrics for Assessing Anticancer AgentsA novel, simplified cost-value analysis tool was created to better differentiate the value of anticancer agents and further characterize the expected survival benefit of all patients.
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Bending the Curve Through Health Reform ImplementationAuthors from The Brookings Institution update their recommendations by focusing on 3 concrete objectives to slow spending and improve quality of care within the next 5 years.
