Authors


Michelle Peters, BS

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Consumer-Centric Approach to Enhance Access to Pediatric Specialty Care

The authors’ organization optimized scheduling techniques that improved patient access to pediatric specialists to within 7 calendar days for new patients.


Aygin Bayraktar-Ekincioglu, PhD

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Risk Assessments of Drug-Related Problems for Cardiac Surgery Patients

Risk assessments of drug-related problems for cardiac surgery patients can be conducted by implementing a framework for patient safety.


Beverly Kyalwazi, MD

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How English- and Spanish-Preferring Patients With Cancer Decide on Emergency Care

Care delivery innovations to help patients with cancer avoid emergency department visits are underused. The authors interviewed English- and Spanish-preferring patients at 2 diverse health systems to understand why.


Glen Sumner, MD

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Impact of Payment Models on Medical Specialist Physician Practice Patterns

This 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.


Hanina L. Rosenstein, MS

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Proactive Care Management of AI-Identified At-Risk Patients Decreases Preventable Admissions

Proactive care management for artificial intelligence (AI)–identified at-risk patients reduced potentially preventable hospital admissions.


Robert O'Brien, RPh

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PDTs' Role in Addressing Health Care Disparities and Priorities for Improving PDT Access

In their closing remarks, the panel shares their view on the future of prescription digital therapeutics and the prospects for the widespread adoption and implementation of these therapeutics in health care systems.


Ran Chen, MD

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Patient Satisfaction With Letter-Based Communication of LCS Pulmonary Nodule Results

Patients were satisfied with receiving their lung cancer screening (LCS) pulmonary nodule results via letter and considered the amount of information provided in the letter appropriate.


Shrinath Patel, MS

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Emergency Department Risk Model: Timely Identification of Patients for Outpatient Care Coordination

The authors created a machine learning–based model to identify patients with major depressive disorder in the primary care setting at high risk of frequent emergency department visits, enabling prioritization for a care coordination program.



Heather Daugherty, BA

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Primary Care Transformation: A Team-Based Care Model

This article presents a descriptive review of a team-based care transformation model in a large primary care network, including core staffing, process improvement, and extended care teams.


Carlos Campos, MD, PA

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Inadequate Insurance Coverage for Overweight/Obesity Management

This article reviews the obesity epidemic in America and discusses inadequate insurance coverage.


Brittany Sallee, BS

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Value-Based Care Through Postacute Home Health Under CMS PACT Regulations

Among a patient population defined by CMS postacute care transfer regulations, home health vs no postacute care was associated with reduced 30-day readmissions and costs.


Megan Chacon, MPH

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Real-World Digitally Based Diabetes Management Program Implementation by a Large Employer

This study offers new insights to self-insured employers and health plans related to investment in digitally based disease management programs and enrollee engagement.


Patrick J. O’Connor, MD, MPH

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Cardiovascular Disease Risk Management During COVID-19: In-Person vs Virtual Visits

This article compares cardiovascular disease risk management in community clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic among patients for whom primary care was delivered mostly in person vs mostly virtually.


Jaime Murillo, MD
Jaime Murillo, MD

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AI Is Changing the Landscape of Cardiovascular Care

Implementing artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed clinicians' and health systems' ability to screen for and distinguish forms of cardiorenalmetabolic disease.


Olesya Baker, PhD

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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Regular Emergency Department Users

Regular users of the emergency department (ED) transiently reduced ED visits when faced with ED access barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Suvapun Bunniran, PhD

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Treatment Patterns for Patients With Advanced/Metastatic Cancers by Site of Care

Treatment patterns and overall survival were similar regardless of site of care between patients receiving anticancer therapy in the hospital outpatient vs physician office setting.



Elizabeth Snow, MPH

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Impact of Functional Recovery on Patients Having Heart Surgery

This article describes the positive impact that actively managing functional recovery has on postacute placement for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery.


Lauren Gilstrap, MD, MPH

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Variation in Early Diffusion of Sacubitril/Valsartan and Implications for Understanding Novel Drug Diffusion

Rates of sacubitril/valsartan diffusion have been slow and there has been significant geographic variation, highlighting the importance of local prescribing patterns in early drug diffusion.


Elizabeth Shaughnessy, MA

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Oncology Alternative Payment Models: Lessons From Commercial Insurance

Developing alternative payment models for commercial populations in specialties such as oncology is rife with practical challenges. Leading payers and practices share lessons to date.



Heather Raglin

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Antimicrobial Peptides Show Promise in Management of Atopic Dermatitis

Natural and synthetic antimicrobial peptides can penetrate deeper skin layers.



R. Annetta Zhou, PhD

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Association Between Use of Clinician Performance Information and Patient Experience

High patient experience scores were associated with the collection and use of any clinician performance information, especially with whether the practice shared this information internally to compare.


Travis Brewer

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Balancing Cost and Quality in Oncology: A Value-Based Care Perspective

Travis Brewer, vice president of payer and public health strategy/relations at Texas Oncology, shared that value-based oncology care can achieve both cost efficiency and high-quality outcomes through integrated multidisciplinary teams, flexible payment models, and targeted treatment approaches.


Roger D. Feldman, PhD

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Searching for the Policy-Relevant Treatment Effect in Medicare’s ACO Evaluations

The authors discuss multiple challenges to the production of policy-relevant results from evaluation of Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs).


Andréa Caballero, MPA

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The Health Care Price Crisis Needs Policy Solutions

This commentary, part of the Price Crisis campaign, calls for state and federal policy interventions that are needed to rebalance the market to enhance competition and provide value in health care.


Danielle L. Tepper, MHA

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Hands Down, COVID-19 Will Change Medical Practice

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged us to incorporate technology into engaging, interacting with, and caring for patients, using televisits and video conferencing in ways that have previously been resisted or derided.


Ubong Silas, MSc

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Clinical Outcomes in Heart Failure Monitoring: A Pooled Rates Analysis

This systematic literature review and pooled rates analysis investigated the standard of care for patients with heart failure in the US post hospital discharge.

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