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DST Health Solutions Customizing the Predictive Model Amy Salls
NHS Central Southern Commissioning Support Unit Using the ACG System for Population Segmentation and Casemix Adjustment Chris Morris Principal Analyst
A Model for the Risk of Unplanned Inpatient Readmission-Klaus Lemke
Workshop: Wrapping Your Hands Around the ACG System Advanced Reporting Options – Steve Sutch – ACG International – Product Management Director
Goals of Presentation To introduce concepts surrounding population-based case-mix and “predictive risk” modeling. To show examples of applications worldwide where case-mix has proved information to […]
Jonathan Weiner, DrPH, Professor, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and ACG System co-developer provides an insight into the evolution […]
Sweden became one of the first international adopters of the Johns Hopkins ACG System in the mid 1990s and has expanded its use to cover […]
BACKGROUND: Older patients undergoing emergency general surgery (EGS) experience high rates of postoperative morbidity and mortality. Studies focused primarily on elective surgery indicate that frailty […]
ABSTRACT Recent changes to US reimbursement policies are increasingly holding providers financially accountable for patients’ health. Providing nonmedical services in conjunction with primary care—known as […]
Abstract Background Previous studies on high-risk opioid use have only focused on patients diagnosed with an opioid disorder. This study evaluates the impact of various […]
Abstract Background Clinical guidelines caution against nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use in older adults. The study objective was to quantify the 30-day risk of […]
Abstract This study is conducted to investigate the association between major depressive disorder and the subsequent development of Alzheimer disease (AD) in elderly patients […]
Abstract Background We evaluated symptom trajectories and predictors of reporting severe symptoms in the last 6 months of life among non-resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAC) decedents. […]
Abstract Objective Background: Evidence on sex differences in the association between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and cardiovascular outcomes is limited and controversial. We conducted a […]
Abstract Objective Frailty has emerged as an important determinant of many health outcomes across various surgical specialties. We examined the published literature reporting on frailty […]
Abstract Introduction Family Medicine Groups, implemented in Quebec in 2002, are interprofessional primary care teams designed to improve timely access to high-quality primary care. This […]
Abstract BACKGROUND: Health administrative data offer a vital source of data on maternal prenatal opioid exposure (POE). The impact of different methods to estimate POE, especially […]
Abstract Objectives: To examine long-term mortality, resource utilization, and healthcare costs in sepsis patients compared to hospitalized nonsepsis controls. Design: Propensity-matched population-based cohort study using administrative data. […]
Abstract Background Treating mental illnesses in primary care is increasingly emphasized to improve access to mental health services. Although family physicians (FPs) or general practitioners […]
Abstract Purpose Our purpose was to contrast mortality associated with clinically undiagnosed prevalent vertebral fracture recognized on densitometric vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) and prior clinically […]
ABSTRACT Purpose There is limited evidence on the intensity of end-of-life (EOL) care for women < 65 years old, who account for about 40% of […]
Abstract Objective To examine the effect of an employer‐mandated switch to high‐deductible health plans (HDHP) on emergency department (ED) low‐value imaging. Data Sources Claims data […]
ABSTRACT Background No research has assessed the individual-level impact of smoking cessation treatment delivered within a general primary care patient population on multiple forms of […]
Abstract Objectives To compare the risk of bladder cancer and bladder cancer mortality among patients with chronic bladder catheterisation (indwelling or intermittent) to patients from […]
Abstract Background Early referral of cancer patients for palliative care significantly improves the quality of life. It is not clear which patients can benefit from […]
Abstract Objectives To determine if bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, compared with ovarian conservation, is associated with all cause or cause specific death in women undergoing hysterectomy for […]
Abstract Objective To investigate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hospitalization risk in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) compared with matched non-IMID comparators from the general […]
Abstract Background Network analysis, a technique for describing relationships, can provide insights into patterns of co-occurring chronic health conditions. The effect that co-occurrence measurement has […]
Abstract Background Twenty-five states have implemented insulin out-of-pocket (OOP) cost caps, but their effectiveness is uncertain. Objective To examine the effect of state insulin OOP […]
Abstract Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the impact of patient demographics, surgeon volume, and hospital type on composite outcomes, infection, and revision following surgery […]
Abstract Objective: Determine whether a Medicare 7-day limit on initial opioid prescriptions (effective January 1, 2019) was associated with reductions in duration, dosage, and subsequent […]
Abstract Objectives Breast screening and early detection have positively influenced survival rates for breast cancer. We conducted a randomized-controlled trial involving 7235 eligible members of […]
Systemic therapies for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have the potential to cause serious adverse events (SAEs), particularly among older adults (Garcia-Doval et al, 2012; Lavan […]
Abstract Background Biennial breast screening enables timely diagnosis, a critical determinant of survival. However, this benefit depends on navigating complex healthcare systems where immigrant women […]
Abstract Study Design Cohort study. Objectives To determine the prevalence and to identify predictors of prescription opioid use among persons with non-traumatic spinal cord dysfunction […]
Abstract Rationale and objective To evaluate the relationship between receipt of annual physicals and the receipt of provider recommendation for preventive services, during a period […]
This webinar explores the use of data sets from other Health and Social Care providers with the ACG system.In particular, it will focus on Sollis’s […]
Presented by: Alan Thompson, MSc
Director of User Support, ACG System
Whilst it is true that resource use increases with an increasing degree of frailty, this presentation will demonstrate that not all frail patients are high cost and not all high cost patients are frail.
Med Care 45:116-122. Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA BACKGROUND: Having a family member with substance use problems affects family functioning, […]
Int J Equity Health 13:115. Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel; Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel OBJECTIVES: To assess an association of Socio-economic status with […]
Ann Fam Med 12:559-567. Montreal Health and Social Services Agency, Montreal, QC, Canada PURPOSE: In a primary care context favoring group practices, we assessed the […]
Gac Sanit 29:15-20. Aragón Health Sciences Institute (IACS), Zaragoza, Spain; University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain; Carlos III Health Institute, […]
Res Social Adm Pharm 11:382-400. Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA; Pharmacy […]
Gastric Cancer 19:150-159. Department of Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA BACKGROUND: Stage IV gastric cancer is lethal, and little population-based research on prognostic […]
J Natl Cancer Inst 108:10. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; […]
Medicine 94:e1314. Centro de Salud de Astrabudua (Primary Health Care Center of Astrabudua), Osakidetza (Basque Health Service), Erandio (Bizkaia), Spain; Primary Care Research Unit-Bizkaia, Osakidetza, […]
Health Policy 116:264-272. McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Direction de la santé publique de l’Agence de la Santé et des services sociaux de Montréal, Montreal, […]
Santelices C E, Muñoz P F, Muñiz P, Rojas J. BACKGROUND: Health care must be provided with strong primary health care models, emphasizing prevention and a […]
BMC Health Serv Res 10:A8. Ministry of Health, Malaysia; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA Introduction: The study focused on the […]
BMC Public Health 6:171. Blekinge Institute for Research & Development, Karlshamn, Sweden BACKGROUND: Individual based measures for comorbidity are of increasing importance for planning and […]
J Formos Med Assoc 104:883-890. Graduate Institute of Health Care Organization Administration, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Diagnostic […]
Med Care 48:175-182. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to evaluate an administrative data-based risk adjustment […]
BMC Med 8:7. Department of Health Policy & Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: Diagnosis-based risk adjustment is […]
Med Care 42:1027-1035. Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Health Services Research and Development Service, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, […]
Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry 12:PCC.09m00837. Health Services Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK OBJECTIVE: To describe and quantify the […]
Manag Care Q 2:21-34. CSC Healthcare Systems, Inc., Malden, MA, USA When analyzing medical utilization or other health care-related measurements across provider panels, case mix […]
Med Care 44:745-753. Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Numerous measures of comorbidity have been developed for health services research […]
Rev Neurol 29:667-669. Published in Spanish. Fundació Jordi Gol i Gurina, Barcelona, España INTRODUCTION: Ambulatory care groups (ACG) are a system of classification for patients […]
J Health Serv Res Policy 9 Suppl 2:17-22. Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand OBJECTIVE: To compare […]
JAMA 272:1903-1908. Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship […]
Am J Manag Care 18:e468-e476. Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS OBJECTIVES: To demonstrate a threat to validity in […]
Osteoporos Int 23:929-936. Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 409 Tache Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Despite targeted attempts to reduce post-fracture care gaps, we hypothesized […]
JAMA 276:1316-1321. Health Research Center, Institute for Research and Education, HealthSystem Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA OBJECTIVE: To compare performance of different health status measures for […]
Health Aff W4:64-66. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA The United States faces a serious shortage of cardiologists as our population ages and […]
Eur J Public Health 17:657-663. Planning Management, Badalona Serveis Assistencials, SA, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain BACKGROUND: To determine the referral rate (RR) per centre, its main […]
Health Aff 18:217-227. Urban Institute, Washington, DC, USA This paper reports on a new survey of state Medicaid managed care payment rates. We collected rate […]
Health Serv Res 45:1763-1782. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Healthcare LLC, Glen Burnie, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: […]
Can Fam Physician 57:e381-e389. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of electronic medical record (EMR) […]
Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica 28:564-565. Published in Spanish. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Spain Sr. Editor. El envejecimiento progresivo de […]
J Neurotrauma 29:2038-2049. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Data on traumatic brain injury (TBI) economic outcomes are limited. We used Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) resources […]
Health Serv Res 40:887-904. Health Services Research and Development Northwest Center of Excellence, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA. OBJECTIVE: To […]
Int J Equity Health 12:66. School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK INTRODUCTION: In adults, multimorbidity is associated with social position. […]
BMJ 323:607-610. School of Public Policy, University College London, London, UK Risk adjustment could help to improve decisions about budgets as well as help measure […]
BMC Public Health 13:918. Oberri, Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Sondika, Spain BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity is clearly a major challenge for healthcare systems. However, currently, its […]
Am J Gastroenterol 108:1159-1167. University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA OBJECTIVES: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is underutilized. To effect […]
J Gen Intern Med Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA BACKGROUND: Young adults with hypertension have […]
Med Care 34:798-810. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA OBJECTIVES: This study illustrates how claims […]
Rev Clin Esp 214:140-142. University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Obesity has long been known as a driver and predictor of the increasing global prevalence […]
AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2013:1402-1411. Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA Health information exchange (HIE) systems may address the challenges that prevent easy […]
First International Conference on Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury, September 2015, Liverpool, UK. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Objective: To determine, by sex, the predictors, […]
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 96:e17-e18. Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada Objective(s): To investigate demographic and acute care clinical determinants of admission to inpatient rehabilitation […]
J Hum Resources 45:517-548. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Research has shown […]
Quality Matters December 2010/January 2011. Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY, USA Health reform strategies such as creating patient-centered medical homes depend on an actively engaged […]
Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Although many descriptive healthcare studies are […]
Chapter 5. In: Gavin NI, Farrelly MC, ed. Evaluation of Medicaid managed care programs with 1915(b) waivers. Presented to HCFA Office of R&D. Rockville, MD, […]
EHI ehealth Insider :5 March 2012. More than 200 GP practices in South Central England are getting quarterly risk stratification and predictive modelling information on […]
Toronto, ON, Canada: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada Key Findings OLDER WOMEN: A look at gender differences […]
Health Serv Outcomes Res Methodology 3:266-277. Adamian Academic Center, Bentley College, Waltham, MA, USA; Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Veterans Administration Medical […]
Hopkins health pricing tool a managed care hit. Baltimore Business Journal July 21. Baltimore Business Journal, Baltimore, MD, USA Johns Hopkins University’s links with private […]
Baltimore, MD, USA: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, […]
Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Obesity is a major public health concern in Canada […]
Cape Town, South Africa: Actuarial Society of South Africa. School of Management Studies, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa The aim of this paper […]
São Paulo, Brazil: Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (doctoral dissertation). Published in Portuguese. Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Administração […]
In: 2013 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, September 9-11, 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE:551-556. Department of Health Policy and Management, […]
Midlands and Lancashire CSU – ACG® System Case Management Report
Slough CCG used data output from the Johns Hopkins ACG System to gain a better understanding of their patient population, understand the factors that drive […]
