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Practices and Changes Associated With Patient-Centered Medical Home TransformationPractices undertake many care delivery changes and quality improvement practices to become patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs), and these differ by years of PCMH recognition.
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Perioperative Strategies in NSCLC: Future Directions and ChallengesIn the final part of our interview, Ticiana Leal, MD, Winship Cancer Institute, looks to the future of perioperative care in the non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) arena and the importance of risk stratifying patients.
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Insurer Costs of COVID-19 by Disease Severity and DurationPayer costs for COVID-19 ranged from a mean of $505 for asymptomatic cases to $126,094 for severe cases with post–COVID-19 condition.
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Cost-effectiveness of a 3-Year Tele-Messaging Intervention for Positive Airway Pressure UseLong-term tele-messaging was more effective than no messaging and short-term messaging for positive airway pressure use, and it was highly likely to be cost-effective with an acceptable willingness-to-pay threshold.
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Tacking Upwind: Reducing Spending Among High-risk Commercially Insured PatientsAlthough commercial accountable care organization populations are healthy on average, some individuals might benefit from programs for high-risk patients to mitigate high levels of health care utilization.
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Medicare Advantage–Pharmacy Partnership Improves Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination RatesPatients whose pharmacy receives notification of their immunization gap have twice the odds of receiving immunizations compared with those whose pharmacy does not receive the notification.
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Predicting Drug-Drug and Drug-Gene Interactions in a Community Pharmacy PopulationThe probability of drug interactions increases when genetic polymorphisms are considered, indicating that pharmacogenetic assessment may be useful in predicting the presence and severity of interactions.
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Implementation and Cost Validation of a Real-time Benefit ToolThis study evaluates impact of a real-time benefit tool on medication access and physician and pharmacy workflows at a large academic medical center.
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Machine Intelligence for Early Targeted Precision Management and Response to Outbreaks of Respiratory InfectionsThis paper evaluates novel machine intelligence to predict patients at risk of severe respiratory infections and recommend postacute care providers likely to reduce infection risk.
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Evaluating Alternative Methods of Comparing Antihypertensive Treatment IntensityMedication dose captures modification of hypertension treatment intensity more precisely than medication count, and this measure should be preferred in studies that aim to improve hypertension management.
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Transition-to-Dialysis Planning, Health Care Use, and Mortality in End-Stage Renal DiseaseA planned transition to dialysis was associated with improved outcomes and lower mortality. These findings may inform care coordination policies for end-stage renal disease.
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IMS 2024 Speakers Look Back on Exciting Myeloma UpdatesSpeakers at the 2024 International Myeloma Society (IMS) conference share the updates from the myeloma space that they were most excited about this year.
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Preappointment Surveys and Reminder Calls to Improve Show RatePatients who completed a preappointment survey were significantly more likely to attend their clinic appointment than noncompleters and spent significantly less time in their appointment.
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Using Natural Language Processing to Classify Social Work InterventionsNatural language processing can be used for automated extraction of social work interventions from electronic health records, thereby supporting social work staffing and resource allocation decisions.
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Contributor: The Illusion of Quality in Value-Based CareThis is the third article in a series on value-based care and the 4 challenges health care organizations must overcome.
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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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Timely Preterm-Birth Prediction Among Pregnant Women in Medicaid Without Preterm-Birth HistoryA novel prediction model is developed that accurately predicts preterm birth in a timely manner among pregnant women in Medicaid without preterm-birth history.
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Teamwork Enhances Patient Experience: Linking TEAM and Net Promoter ScoresIn 1386 providers, better teamwork related to higher patient Net Promoter Score (NPS), and the relationship between provider experience and NPS was mediated by teamwork.
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Hospital Discharge Diagnosis Position: Impact on Adult Pneumonia Burden EstimatesDisease burden estimates of pneumonia-associated hospitalizations are more sensitive when including pneumonia coded in any diagnosis field vs in only the first discharge diagnosis field.
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Providing Patients With Cancer Access to Affordable Housing During TreatmentPatients traveling for cancer treatment often incur financial burdens. The members of the Alliance of Dedicated Cancer Centers should play a role in mitigating housing-associated costs for patients during cancer treatment.
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Impact of Including Drug Spending in Oncology Alternative Payment ModelsThis study demonstrates a method for understanding the effects of drug spending in the design of alternative payment models.
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Use of Second-Generation Antidiabetic Medication Among a Nationally Representative SampleAmong individuals with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes across the United States, income level, hemoglobin A1c, and comorbidity burden were the primary patient-level drivers of the use of newer antidiabetic agents.
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Medicare Advantage Enrollment by Immigration and English Proficiency StatusMedicare Advantage enrollment was higher among immigrants compared with US-born residents, but the highest enrollment was found among immigrants with limited English proficiency.
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Impact of Food Affordability on Diabetes-Related Preventable HospitalizationMedicaid enrollees residing in counties with greater food affordability had lower odds of preventable hospitalization related to diabetes.
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CMS Practice Assessment Tool Validity for Alternative Payment ModelsUsing data from 632 primary care practices, the authors show that the CMS Practice Assessment Tool has adequate predictive validity for participation in alternative payment models.
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Cardiovascular Disease Risk Management During COVID-19: In-Person vs Virtual VisitsThis 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.
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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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Assessment of Structured Data Elements for Social Risk FactorsAn expert panel identified and assessed electronic health record and health information exchange structured data elements to support future development of social risk factor computable phenotyping.
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Features of Health Care Interventions Associated With Reduced Services and SpendingThis study identifies several factors shared by locally defined delivery system innovations that have been shown to reduce service use and lower health care spending.
