IMPORTANCE There have been concerns raised by patients and regulatory agencies regarding serious psychiatric adverse effects associated with 5α-reductase inhibitors. OBJECTIVE To determine if there […]

Background Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) incidence is increasing rapidly. Esophageal cancer has the second lowest 5-year survival rate of people diagnosed with cancer in Canada. Given […]

Abstract This paper studies regulated health insurance markets known as exchanges, motivated by the increasingly important role they play in both public and private insurance […]

Abstract Objective The objective of this work was to assess the effectiveness of a population‐level patient‐centered intervention for multimorbid patients based on risk stratification for […]

Abstract   BACKGROUND Induced abortion is a common procedure performed by physicians with varying degrees of clinical experience. We aimed to determine whether a physician’s […]

Abstract This paper presents the first comparison of descriptive segmentation methods for population health management. The aim of descriptive segmentation is to identify heterogeneous segments […]

ABSTRACT Seasonal influenza is an important cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly among the elderly population. Determinants of vaccination uptake and its impact on health […]

Abstract BACKGROUND Colonoscopy is a key resource used to diagnose colorectal cancer (CRC). This study evaluated the relationship between colonoscopy availability and the length of […]

Abstract Background Case-mix based payment of health care services offers potential to contain expenditure growth and simultaneously support needs-based care provision. However, limited evidence exists […]

Abstract   Background Disease-specific guidelines are not aligned with multimorbidity care complexity. Meeting all guideline-recommended care for multimorbid patients has been estimated but not demonstrated […]

Abstract Purpose A prolonged time from first presentation to cancer diagnosis has been associated with worse disease-related outcomes. This study evaluated potential determinants of a […]

Abstract Background Within the Dutch health care system the focus is shifting from a disease oriented approach to a more population based approach. Since every […]

Abstract Background Red blood cell transfusions are common in patients undergoing gastrointestinal cancer surgery. Yet, to adequately balance their risks and benefits, clinicians must understand […]

Abstract Importance Psychiatric emergency department (ED) visits may be avoidable if individuals have access to adequate outpatient care, but the extent to which individuals use […]

Abstract Background Despite the adoption of azacitidine (AZA) in higher-risk MDS/low-blast count AML, limited ‘real-world’ data on resource utilization and toxicity exist. Methods We linked […]

Abstract Objective This study examined the relationship between dysphagia and adverse outcomes across frailty conditions among surgical patients ≥50 years of age. Methods A retrospective cohort […]

Abstract Objective There has been growing interest in the potential role for allopurinol to reduce cardiovascular events in people with diabetes. While adherence to allopurinol is poor […]

Abstract Objective The correct management of patients with multimorbidity remains one of the main challenges for healthcare systems worldwide. In this study, we analyze the […]

Abstract Background A high proportion of health care services are persistently utilized by a small subpopulation of patients. To improve clinical outcomes while reducing costs […]

Abstract During recent years, multimorbidity has taken relevance because of the impact of causes in the system, people, and their families, which has been a […]

Abstract Objective Health care providers increasingly rely upon predictive algorithms when making important treatment decisions, however, evidence indicates that these tools can lead to inequitable […]

Abstract Background: A growing number of US states are implementing programs to address the social needs (SNs) of their Medicaid populations through managed care contracts. […]

Abstract Telemedicine in primary health care is expected to address many of the issues currently challenging service delivery. However, the impact and effect will depend […]

J Fam Pract 49:12-17. Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester, New York, NY, USA No abstract Comment in: Interspeciality differences in medical resource utilization. […]

A historical cohort study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 190:218-225. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; […]

Can Urol Assoc J 8:E805. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada INTRODUCTION: We assessed the urologic care patterns of traumatic spinal cord injury […]

J Orthop Trauma 29:182-188. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVE: To define the rates and risk […]

J Ambul Care Manage 26:229-242. Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VAMC, Bedford, MA, USA Although case-mix adjustment is critical for provider […]

Am J Hypertens University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA; Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System , Pittsburgh, PA, USA; University […]

Am J Manag Care 21:378-386. Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA OBJECTIVES: The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of primary care is being […]

Alzheimers Dement 11:906-916. UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, School of Population and Public Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada BACKGROUND: Evidence indicates that early […]

Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 62:305-314. Hôpital Jean-Verdier, Bondy, France; Université Paris, Paris Cité, Bobigny, France BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity is a consequence of both epidemiological and demographic […]

J Ambul Care Manage 21:29-52. School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA This article describes the risk-adjusted payment methodology employed by the […]

Inquiry 45:340-352. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA State high-risk insurance pools serve people denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. With benefit plans modeled on […]

BMC Health Serv Res 10:126./p> Institute of Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan BACKGROUND: Medication claims are commonly used to […]

Aten Primaria 17:76-82. Published in Spanish. Unitat d’Investigació Centre, Institut Català de la Salut, CESCA, Barcelona, Spain No abstract PMID: 8742149

Gastroenterology 138:896-904. Section of Gastroenterology, Division of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada BACKGROUNDS and AIMS: Recent studies have shown an association between […]

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:219-220. Institute for Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA THE VERY TITLE of the article by Forrest et […]

Health Policy 104:186-192. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVE: Several innovative primary care models have recently been introduced […]

Ann Fam Med 7:104-111. National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK PURPOSE: Increasing use of specialist services in the United […]

Data Strateg Benchmarks 2:25-28. “But my patients are sicker!” Health Source/CIGNA put a stop to this physician complaint by switching to quarterly physician profiles that […]

J Health Care Poor Underserved 14:420-435. Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California Region, Oakland, CA, USA The objective of this study […]

Inquiry 35:223-239. Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA This study used 1992 and 1993 data from private employers to compare […]

Ambulatory Care Groups. Aten Primaria 22:128. Published in Spanish. Osakidetza Servicio Vasco de Salud, Bizkaia, Spain No abstract Comment on:[A retrospective evaluation of the behaviour […]

J Gen Intern Med 19:944-951. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: To determine efficient ways of promoting advance directives among […]

BMC Public Health 12:575. Blekinge Centre of Competence, Karlskrona, Sweden BACKGROUND: There is a great variability in licit prescription drug use in the population and […]

Health Serv Res 48:582-602. Research and Development, Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC, Glen Burnie, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: To develop a quasi-experimental method for estimating Population Health […]

J Ambul Care Manage 22:41-52. 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT, USA The Episode Classification System is intended to perform two tasks. First, it will […]

J Am Board Fam Pract 18:449-452. Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of patient characteristics and […]

J Gen Intern Med 23:536-542. Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: Improving […]

Healthc Q 12:32-44. Hollander Analytical Services Ltd., Victoria, BC, Canada This article presents a major new finding in regard to the value for money of […]

Popul Health Manag 13:309-317. HealthMedia, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA The objective of this study was to determine the economic impact of the Hawaii Medical […]

Prim Care Diabetes 5:25-31. Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA AIMS: Examine potential associations between inclusion […]

Am J Manag Care 17:e410-8. Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA OBJECTIVES: To determine the […]

Adm Policy Ment Health 39:374-382. Addiction Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA This study examined antidepressant adherence and persistence among uninsured […]

Ann Emerg Med 61:539-548.e1. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada STUDY OBJECTIVE: More than 10% of patients treated in the emergency department (ED) […]

Health Aff 32:1942-1948. University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI, USA; University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA One approach to the patient-centered medical home, particularly […]

Int J Equity Health 12:69. Center of Comparative Effectiveness Research, National Center of Excellence for Clinical Trial and Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, […]

Ann Fam Med 11 Suppl 1:S19-S26. Group Health Physicians, Seattle, WA, USA PURPOSE: The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is being rapidly deployed in many settings […]

Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 22:744-751. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada; […]

Am J Manag Care 7:389-398. MEDTAP International, Bethesda, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: To examine the relation between blood pressure (BP) control and utilization and cost of […]

Ann Epidemiol 24:532-537. St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada PURPOSE: We […]

Rev Esp Salud Publica 88:251-260. Published in Spanish. Centro de Salud de Astrabudua,.Osakidetza (Servicio Vasco de Salud), Erandio. Bizkaia, Spain; Instituto Vasco de Innovación Sanitaria. […]

Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Canadian policy makers are considering a variety of new […]

International Conference for Pharmacoepidemiology (ICPE) – August, 2015 Boston, MA, USA. Background: A MedsCheck Annual (MCA) consultation is a government-funded, medication review service in Ontario, […]

Gastroenterology 146:S-171. Background: The incidence of Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) in the elderly population is reported to be increasing. Comorbid diseases, which […]

BMC Health Serv Res 7:A13. Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden BACKGROUND: Longitudinal studies on clinical categories of patients in primary health care are rare, as are […]

Final report to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human Services. Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins University, […]

Bethesda, MD, USA: Project Hope Center for Health Affairs. Project Hope, Bethesda, MD, USA This report contains findings from a project conducted by the Project […]

Johns Hopkins University, Lewin Group. Prepared for Health Care Financing Administration. Fairfax, VA, USA: Lewin Group. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Lewin Group, Fairfax, […]

Project final report. Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University and Aetna Health Plans. Johns Hopkins University and Aetna Health Plans, USA As the US health […]

Baltimore, MD, USA: CMS Tribal Affairs Group.. CMS Tribal Affairs Group, Baltimore, MD, USA The Indian Health Service (IHS) is a discretionary federal program that […]

Linkoping, Sweden: Linkoping University. Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden The general aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse the role of primary  care in […]

Los Angeles, CA, USA: University of California, Los Angeles (doctoral dissertation). University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Increased technology in the development of effective […]

Baltimore, MD, USA: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, […]

Waltham, MA, USA: Brandeis University (doctoral dissertation). Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA Health care organizations must find creative ways to achieve cost-efficient, high-quality primary care […]

Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Metis Federation. Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Health & Wellness Department, Manitoba Metis Federation, Winnipeg, […]

J Nurs Ed Pract 3:23-29. Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Sondika, Bizkaia, Spain In 2011 advanced competences in nursing were defined and pilot tested in […]

Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago (doctoral dissertation). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand BACKGROUND: Comorbidity has an important impact on cancer outcomes, but the […]

Using case finding and risk stratification: A key service component for personalised care and support planningThis handbook describes current thinking and provides practitioner insights into […]

The Defense Health Agency (DHA) supports the delivery of integrated, affordable, and high-quality health services to Military Health System (MHS) beneficiaries and is responsible for […]

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health How Health Information Technology can Impact the Delivery of Health Care Karen Kinder, PhD, MBA

Johns Hopkins HealthCare Develop a Risk Prediction Model to Identify Diabetic Members at High Risk of Hospitalization Martha Sylvia and Yanyan Lu

University of Minnesota Chinese Health Insurance System and Pilot Study for Applying ACG System to Chinese Healthcare System Yi Zhang and Stephen T. Parente, Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins ACG System ACG Predictive Model for Readmission Risk Klaus Lemke

NHS ACGs in Leicestershire and Leicester city Mark Pierce

DST Health Solutions Medication Therapy Management Amy Salls, Director Population Health Strategy Diana R. Kesser, Director Care Management Strategy

Cluster Analysis: Conditions and Variables That Are the Best Predictors of High Cost Members  —Bob Gladden and Cathy Meade, CareSource

 Use of ACG within Benefit Informatics for employer health plan cost management-Bruns Benefit Focus

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ACG System DST Health Solutions The Impact of Transitioning Coding Systems on Risk Adjustment Kelsey Rauch

OBJECTIVES: To determine the extent of agreement between four commonly used definitions of multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) and compare each definition’s ability to predict 30-day […]

Abstract Objectives. To examine the impact of the dissemination of guidelines to physicians and of a population-level health communication intervention on the percentage of adults […]