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Moral Outrage in COVID-19 ‐ Understandable but Not a Strategy
The unprecedented impact of COVID‐19 has generated feelings of fear, grief and helplessness for people around the world and for many health professionals these emotions are particularly accentuated.
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The Evolving Consequences of OxyContin Reformulation on Drug Overdoses
Instead of just short-term substitution from prescription opioid to heroin overdoses, the transition to illicit markets spurred by reformulation led to growth in the overall overdose rate to unprecedented levels.
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Variation in Performance of Commonly Used Statistical Methods for Estimating Effectiveness of State-Level Opioid Policies on Opioid-Related Mortality
This simulation study used real-world data to compare model performance across a range of important statistical constructs to better understand which methods are appropriate for measuring the impacts of state-level opioid policies on opioid-related mortality.
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Prevalence And Characteristics Of Surprise Out-Of-Network Bills From Professionals In Ambulatory Surgery Centers
One-in-twelve episodes at ambulatory surgery centers had the potential to result in a surprise medical bill, according to the study.
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Provider Differences in Biosimilar Uptake in the Filgrastim Market
The speed and extent of biosimilar penetration differ across provider types. Provider awareness and incentives are significantly associated with biosimilar uptake.
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Association of Combination Statin and Antihypertensive Therapy With Reduced Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Risk
Drugs already being used to treat high blood pressure and cholesterol could reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, according to a new Schaeffer Center study of nearly 700,000 Medicare beneficiaries.
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How Increasing Medical Access to Opioids Contributes to the Opioid Epidemic: Evidence from Medicare Part D
The researchers find a 10% increase in opioid medical supply leads to a 7.1% increase in opioid-related deaths among the Medicare-ineligible population.
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The Potential Benefits of Deferred Payment
Hlavka and his colleagues used a hypothetical gene therapy for congestive heart failure to assess the impact of a new payment model on access and outcomes.
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Helping Consumers Understand the Real Costs of Credit Cards
If consumers are to make informed choices about credit cards and other financial products, they need to understand how much these products cost them over time.
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Global Reports of Well-Being Overestimate Aggregated Daily States of Well-Being
Researchers can characterize people’s well-being by asking them to provide global evaluations of large parts of their life at one time or by obtaining repeated assessments during their daily lives.
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