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Complex Care Hospital Use and Postdischarge Coaching: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Complex care programs seek to influence key health outcomes for children with medical complexity (CMC), and investment in program infrastructure…
Medicare shared savings programs: Higher cost ACOs more likely to achieve savings
In a recent study, the PATH collaborative examined the 2013 results for 220 ACOs from the Medicare Shared Savings Program to assess…
Asset-Based Community Development as a Strategy for Developing Local Global Health Curricula.
A significant and growing proportion of US children have immigrant parents, an issue of increasing importance to pediatricians. Training globally…
Development of a veteran engagement toolkit for researchers.
Engaging patients in the planning, implementation and dissemination of research can increase the credibility and relevance of results and lead…
Optimal treatment assignment to maximize expected outcome with multiple treatments.
When there is substantial heterogeneity of treatment effectiveness, it is crucial to identify individualized treatment assignment rules for comparative treatment…
Inpatient Portals for Hospitalized Patients and Caregivers: A Systematic Review.
Patient portals, web-based personal health records linked to electronic health records (EHRs), provide patients access to their healthcare information and…
Risk prediction for heterogeneous populations with application to hospital admission prediction
There is an increasing need to model risk for large hospital and health care systems that provide services to diverse…
Frequency and predictors of communication about high blood pressure in RA visits
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Christie Bartels et al. conducted a retrospective cohort study…
Hypertension control after an initial cardiac event among Medicare patients with diabetes
In this study co-authored by Drs. Heather Johnson and Maureen Smith, investigators used EHR and Chronic Conditions Warehouse Medicare data…
Does Beneficiary Switching Create Adverse Selection For Hospital-Based ACOs?
Despite the many uncertainties in the current health care delivery environment, payers and providers continue to demonstrate considerable interest in…