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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 72:615-620. Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVE: To determine whether psychiatric illness is a risk factor for […]
Dis Manag 9:45-55. UMHS Medical Management Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Reports by the Institute of Medicine and the Health Care Financing […]
Health Serv Res 43:755-772. Healthcare Management and Statistical Consulting, 4303 Stanford Street, Chevy Chase, MD, USA OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of regression tree boosting […]
Med Care 47:813-821. Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Many clinical and health services research studies are […]
Int J Equity Health 10:12. Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada BACKGROUND: This study aimed to measure […]
Selection bias explains apparent differential mortality between dialysis modalities. J Am Soc Nephrol 22:1534-1542. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada The relative risk of death […]
BMC Health Serv Res 12:116. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Improvements in the quality of health care […]
Med Clin (Barc) 138:179-180. Published in Spanish. Dirección de Planificación, Badalona Serveis Assistencials, Barcelona, Spain Launched in 1943, Medicina Clínica is a fortnightly journal aimed […]
Fam Pract 30:172-178. Academic Unit of Primary Care, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK BACKGROUND: An increasing proportion of people […]
Health Policy 111:157-165. Lund University School of Economics and Management, Lund, Sweden Following recent reforms in Swedish primary care, providers are accountable to both citizens […]
J Clin Oncol 31:3069-3075. Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health, Toronto, ON, Canada PURPOSE: To evaluate the association between cumulative duration of metformin use after prostate […]
Mayo Clin Proc 88:963-969. Division of Primary Care Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the participants in the […]
BMJ 337:a238. Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, UK OBJECTIVE: To examine whether patient level morbidity based measure of clinical case mix explains […]
BMC Public Health 14:329. Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden BACKGROUND: It has been reported […]
Popul Health Manag Univita , Natick, MA, USA This study explores whether personal care services for functionally dependent or cognitively impaired individuals paid for by […]
In: Mercer SW, Salisbury C, Fortin M, ed. ABC of multimorbidity. Chichester, UK: Wiley:12-16. Haifa University, Haifa, Israel; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA OVERVIEW […]
Lakartidningen: Published in Swedish. Health Department, Area Monitoring and Analysis , VästraGotaland, Sweden We describe a method, which uses already existent administrative data to identify […]
Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia (doctoral dissertation). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Amidst concerns about escalating health spending, examining variation in […]
Hamilton, NJ, USA: Center for Health Care Strategies. University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA As Medicaid managed […]
Stockholm, Sweden: Karolinska Institute. Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden This thesis addresses possibilities of describing the burden of illness in a population by elucidating morbidity and […]
Final report prepared for Center for Health Care Management Studies. RTI Project No. 08490.006. Washington, DC, USA: RTI International and Boston University School of Medicine. […]
Final report for Health Care Financing Administration contract 93-026/EE. Falls Church, VA, USA: Lewin Group. Lewin Group, Falls Church, VA, USA The Health Care Financing […]
Am Med News December 2.
Reporting Framework Subcommittee of the Steering Committee of the Minnesota ACG Users Group. St. Paul, MN, USA: Minnesota ACG Users Group. Minnesota ACG Users Group, […]
Medical College of Virginia Associated Physicians, Mathematica Policy Research. Report prepared for the Health Care Financing Review (HCFA Contract No. 17C-90366/3/01). Washington, DC, USA: Mathematica […]
Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Although there has always been an interest in patient […]
Khon Kaen, Thailand: Khon Kaen University. There are three public insurance schemes, the non-contributory Civil Servant Medical Benefit Scheme (CS) for government employees, pensioners and […]
Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation). Risk adjustment has become an essential tool in modern health services research and management. Specifically, it can […]
Chapter 5: Intervention components. In: Schraeder C, Shelton PS, ed. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell:87-126. Care coordination seeks to bridge the gap between the needs of people […]
Kingston, ON, Canada: Queen’s University (masters thesis). Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: A significant number of laryngeal cancer patients are diagnosed with advanced-stage disease. […]
Am Econ Rev 103:2643-2682. University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA This paper investigates consumer inertia in health insurance markets, where adverse selection is a potential […]
Health Serv Outcomes Res Methodology 3:95-106. Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA; Baylor College of […]
Coordinating care and sharing clinical information across the continuum of care has been shown to improve health care outcomes and health care delivery efficiencies. The […]
Discovery Health The Discovery Health experience with the ACG System in South Africa Dr. Dianne Walker
Veteran General Hospital – Taipei Continuity of Care and Its Association to Avoidable Hospitalizations of Taiwan’s Veterans: A Preliminary Study Ping Tao, RN., MHA
Johns Hopkins ACG System Future Directions and Opportunities in the Predictive Modeling and Risk Adjustment Fields: The Next 20 Years of the ACG System Jonathon […]
Brown & Toland Physicians Using Risk Adjustment to Measure Access to Primary Care Kam Reams, MPhil, MPH Manager, Performance Improvement
Johns Hopkins ACG System Expanded Horizons for Pharmacy Gap Analysis David Bodycombe
ACG System Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ACG v11 Introduction to New Tools for Understanding and Managing Population Health Stephen Sutch
Use of Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACGs) in implementing Chronic Disease Management Programs: preliminary experiences in north- eastern Italy —Pietro Gallina, Carlo Rampazzo, Stefania Elvini, Domenico […]
Quality of Care in Multimorbid Patients Efrat Shadmi, PhD, Ran D. Balicer, MD, MPH, PhD
What are the challenges facing health care in the UK? Are these similar or different to the challenges faced by the health care organizations in […]
Background: A small number of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) receive pulmonary function testing around the time of diagnosis. Because omitting testing increases […]
Abstract Background: Using electronic health records (EHRs), in addition to claims, to systematically identify patients with factors associated with adverse outcomes (geriatric risk) among older […]
Abstract Background: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic debilitating disease with long-lasting comorbidities that impose direct and indirect costs on the health care system. However, […]
Abstract Background Pain is more common among people living with HIV (PLWH) than their counterparts; however, it is unclear whether analgesic use differs by […]
Abstract Primary Health Networks (PHNs) are tasked to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of general practice. Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN) has been collecting […]
Abstract Background Physical therapy (PT) is an accepted standard of care after total joint arthroplasty (TJA) and essential to maximizing joint functionality and minimizing complications […]
Abstract Background The Johns Hopkins ACG System is widely used to predict patient healthcare service use and costs. Most applications have focused on adult populations. […]
Abstract Background The majority of new hepatitis C (HCV) cases occur among people who inject drugs. In recent years, multidisciplinary models of HCV treatment have […]
Abstract Background Currently, 11% of patients seen in the emergency department for atrial fibrillation die within 1 year of the visit. Our objective was to […]
Abstract Objectives To identify and summarise existing indices for measuring multimorbidity beyond disease counts, to establish which indices include mental health comorbidities or outcomes, and […]
Abstract While an increasing number of girls and women are being identified with autism, we know little about the health of reproductive-aged autistic women. Our […]
Abstract Objectives To determine the impact of frailty on postoperative readmission, morbidity, and mortality among patients undergoing surgery for endometrial cancer. Methods Patients with endometrial […]
Abstract Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is often accompanied by chronic diseases, including mental health problems. We aimed at studying mental health comorbidity prevalence […]
Abstract OBJECTIVE Pituitary adenomas (PAs) are among the most common intracranial tumors. Understanding the clinical effects of various modifiable risk factors (MRFs) and nonmodifiable risk […]
Abstract Aims To describe the impact of diabetes comorbidities on the health care services use and costs of a cohort of elderly patients with diabetes […]
Abstract Hypothesis There is limited data on the care and outcomes of individuals with both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer, particularly in […]
Abstract Background: A standard measure of the cancer diagnostic pathway, diagnostic interval, is the time from “first presentation of cancer” to diagnosis. Cancer presentation may be […]
Abstract Objective Frailty has been shown to portend worse outcomes in surgical patients. Our goal was to identify the impact of frailty on outcomes and […]
Abstract Background Frailty aggregates a composite of geriatric and elderly features that is classified into a singular syndrome; literature thus far has proven its influence […]
Abstract Introduction This study assesses the risk of infection and clinical outcomes in a large consecutive population of cancer and non-cancer patients tested for SARS-CoV-2 […]
Abstract Objectives To examine the impact of time to surgery (TTS) on survival among patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods All […]
Abstract Background The progressive ageing in developed countries entails an increase in multimorbidity. Population-wide predictive models for adverse health outcomes are crucial to address these […]
Abstract Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated with reduced quality of life and health utility. It is unclear whether this is primarily due […]
Abstract Background High-deductible health plan (HDHP) members face relatively high out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for urgent care, high-acuity care, and secondary prevention. These costs could affect […]
Structured Abstract Introduction Foster care admissions are highly traumatic for children and their families, often causing serious adverse outcomes. We seek to assess the viability […]
Abstract Purpose Older and frail adults were under-represented in clinical trials evaluating ICIs, leading to a knowledge gap on their risk of acute care use […]
Abstract Background Intensive end-of-life (EOL) care is emotionally and financially burdensome, disproportionally negatively impacting racial and ethnic minorities, rural residents, and lower socioeconomic seniors. Objectives […]
Abstract Introduction The Social Care Network (SCN) is a payor–provider-system integrated social care referral model designed to address historical challenges of scalability and sustainability through […]
ABSTRACT Background Despite therapy, some patients with rheumatoid arthritis related interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD) require lung transplantation for progressive disease. We aimed to identify factors […]
Abstract Purpose Primary care provider (PCP) continuity improves many health outcomes, but its impact on breast cancer survival remains unclear. We examined how baseline PCP […]
Abstract Importance The Johns Hopkins Community Health Partnership was created to improve care coordination across the continuum in East Baltimore, Maryland. Objective To determine whether the Johns […]
This webinar will provide an overview of the data available within the ACG System to support case finding activities. The topics covered will include the […]
Presented by: Dr. David Shepherd FRCGP
This webinar shares a case study of Leicester CCG in the UK. The ACG System was used to analyze emergency admission rates for all practices in the area. The top 8 practices were identified and studied further to understand key characteristics of those practices.
BMC Health Serv Res 14:363. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Health system planners aim to pursue the three goals of Triple Aim: 1) reduce […]
Med Care 39:86-99. Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada BACKGROUND: While the adjusted clinical group (ACG) system […]
Med Care 52:157-163. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: Health care quality is frequently described with measures representing […]
Med Care 39:692-704. Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VAMC, MA, USA BACKGROUND: Diagnosis-based case-mix measures are increasingly used for provider profiling, […]
JAMA Intern Med Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Importance: Both the overuse of unnecessary medical procedures and poor continuity of care are thought to […]
JAMA Pediatr 170:148-154. Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA IMPORTANCE: Little is known about the effect of pediatric accountable care organizations (ACOs) […]
Int J Palliat Nurs 21:349-356. McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Little is known about residents of long-term care (LTC) facilities who die of cancer. […]
J Subst Abuse Treat 57:30-35. University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; St. […]
J Am Med Inform Assoc 22:435-442. Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA BACKGROUND: Hospital readmissions are common, costly, and offer opportunities for utilization […]
Pediatr Pulmonol 47:211-219. British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada Given the difficulties in diagnosing, or even defining, asthma in children, claims of a pediatric […]
Med Care 37:238-248. Astrabudúa Health Center, Osakidetza/Basque Health Service, Bizkaia, Spain BACKGROUND: Ambulatory Care Groups (ACGs), a US case mix system that uses the patient […]
Int J Qual Health Care 8:231-241. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Most studies of ambulatory care quality are based on chart […]
Bone 40:1595-1601. Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Diabetes is associated with increased fracture rates but the effect size, time course and […]
Chronic Dis Can 30:46-55. University of British Columbia, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada To date there has been little investigation of the prevalence […]
Am J Prev Med 42:390-397. Group Health Permanente, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Many trials have tested different strategies to increase […]
Osteoporos Int 23:2381-2386. Division of General Internal Medicine, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada Institutionalization after hip fracture occurs in at least 30% of […]
Annu Rev Public Health 20:125-144. Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Important questions about health care are often addressed by studying health […]
Osteoporos Int 22:2439-2448. Division of General Internal Medicine, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada Non-traumatic fractures at typical osteoporotic sites are associated with increased […]
PLoS One 7:e32141. Multiprofessional Education Unit for Family and Community Care (Southwest), Madrid, Spain INTRODUCTION: Healthcare management is oriented toward single diseases, yet multimorbidity is […]
JAMA 279:853-858. Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA CONTEXT: Growth of at-risk managed care contracts between health plans and medical groups […]
Eff Clin Pract 1:66-72. Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente, Northwest Division, Portland, OR, USA. Health care information technology is changing rapidly and dramatically. A […]
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:330-334. Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA […]
Am J Manag Care 18:e155-161. Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. OBJECTIVES: The identification of patients most likely […]
