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Extended-Release Formulation and Medication Adherence
Suboptimal adherence to chronic medications undermines treatment effectiveness and costs the U.S. as much as $289 billion annually. This is the first study to analyze the impact of extended-release formulations on long-term adherence.
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Prescription Opioid Use in General and Pediatric Emergency Departments
Children, adolescents, and young adults treated in pediatric emergency departments are much less likely to be prescribed opioids compared to patients of similar age and ailment treated at general EDs.
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Expanding the Role of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute: Reauthorization and Facilitating Value Assessments
Should Congress reauthorize funding for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)? Professor William Padula writes the PCORI can generate research relevant for shifting to value-based healthcare.
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Does Medicare Coverage Improve Cancer Detection and Mortality Outcomes?
This study provides the first evidence to our knowledge that near-universal access to Medicare at age 65 is associated with improvements in population-level cancer mortality, and provides new evidence on the differences in the impact of health insurance by gender.
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Analysis of State-Level Drug Pricing Transparency Laws in the United States
In this letter published in JAMA Network Open, Neeraj Sood and Martha Ryan analyze recently enacted prescription drug pricing laws with a transparency component to determine which were informative and disclosed transaction prices.
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Trends in the Price per Median and Mean Life-Year Gained Among Newly Approved Cancer Therapies 1995 to 2017
High and rising launch prices of new cancer drugs have raised American public stakeholder and policy concern. A key policy question is whether the clinical gains offered by these drugs in treating specific cancer indications justify the price increases.
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County-Level Unemployment Rates and Service Intensity in Primary Care Physician Offices for Medicare Patients
Patients change their behavior and the way they interact with the healthcare system in the face of an economic recession, and findings also suggest primary care providers changed their service intensity as a result of the recession.
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Measuring Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias in Diverse Populations Using Medicare Claims Data
The researchers examined how methods used for identifying dementia in administrative claims affected dementia incidence across racial/ethnic populations using a 100% sample of Medicare beneficiaries.
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Longitudinal Analysis of Dementia Diagnosis and Specialty Care Among Racially Diverse Medicare Beneficiaries
The burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is rapidly growing. Researchers found vast majority of dementia patients don’t receive specialty diagnosis and care.
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Contribution Of Care Source To Cancer Treatment Cost Variation In The US Military Health System
Seth Seabury and colleagues examined how care received from military treatment facilities or purchased care in civilian facilities contributed to cancer treatment costs for patients.
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