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Does first-contact access to primary care differentially benefit those with certain personalities to receive preventive services?
Dr. Nancy Pandhi and team used Wisconsin Longitudinal Study data to examine utilization of preventive care services in patients with…
Visit patterns for severe mental illness with implementation of integrated care
This retrospective cohort pilot study by Meghan Fondow et al. examined visit patterns for over 1,000 patients with severe mental…
The medical home and hospital readmissions
Despite the fact that primary care medical homes have received considerable attention, little is known about the degree to which…
Examining systemic steroid use in older inflammatory bowel disease patients using hurdle models
This study by Sophia Johnson et al. sought to evaluate the relationship between patient characteristics and the frequency and duration…
Association of anxiety and depression with hypertension control
This study by Dr. Heather Johnson's team aimed to evaluate rates and predictors of incident hypertension control among patients with…
Strange bedfellows: A local insurer/physician practice partnership to fund innovation
In this article by the UW PATH collaborative, investigators describe a novel program that funds ambulatory care improvements through a partnership between…
The impact of a patient's concordant and discordant chronic conditions on diabetes care quality measures
Dr. Elizabeth Magnan et al. sought to determine the impact of the number of concordant and discordant chronic conditions on…
Establishing chronic condition concordance and discordance with diabetes
This study by Dr. Elizabeth Magnan et al. aimed to determine which chronic conditions are concordant and discordant with diabetes…
Are waiting rooms passé: A pilot study of patient self-rooming
Timeliness of care after patients arrive at the primary care office has received little focus. In this article, the UW…
Approaches and challenges to optimising primary care teams' electronic health record usage
The UW PATH collaborative examined the approaches used and challenges perceived by analysts supporting the optimization of primary care teams'…