Research
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Associations of Eating Identities With Self-Reported Dietary Behaviors and Body Mass Index
Researchers examined correlations between participants’ race/ethnicity and other socio-demographic characteristics and affinity with these eating identities.
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Reforming the Medicare Part D Benefit Design: Financial Implications for Beneficiaries, Private Plans, Drug Manufacturers, and the Federal Government
Researchers evaluate prescription drug claims from Medicare Part D beneficiaries to evaluate the current spending distribution.
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Trends in Medically Integrated Dispensing Among Oncology Practices
Researchers analyzed historical trends in medically integrated dispensing among oncology practices.
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Rates of Eye Care and Diabetic Eye Disease among Insured Patients with Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes
The majority of diabetic patients do not receive adequate eye care within the 5 years after initial diabetes diagnosis despite having insurance.
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The Long-term Value of Bariatric Surgery Interventions for American Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Researchers estimate the individual-level social benefits of diabetes remission through bariatric surgery and compare the population-level effects of expanding eligibility alone versus improving utilization for currently eligible individuals.
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Access to Disease-Modifying Alzheimer’s Therapies: Addressing Possible Challenges Using Innovative Payment Models
Researchers use the Future Elderly Model to estimate potential benefits of disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer disease.
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Machine Learning Methods in Health Economics and Outcomes Research—The PALISADE Checklist: A Good Practices Report of an ISPOR Task Force
Advances in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence offer tremendous potential benefits to patients. Predictive analytics using ML are already widely used in healthcare operations and care delivery, but how can ML be used for health economics and outcomes research (HEOR)? To answer this question, ISPOR established an emerging good practices task force for the application of ML in HEOR.
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Eliminating Small Marketplace Premiums Could Meaningfully Increase Insurance Coverage
Matthew Fiedler estimate that 404,000 Marketplace enrollees in the states served by HealthCare.gov currently owe a small positive premium (defined as a positive premium of less than 0.5% of the gross premium of the enrollee’s plan, which translates to around $3 per month on average).
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Race and Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Alzheimer’s Disease Risk and Use of Prescription Medications for Chronic Conditions
Schaeffer Center experts analyze the connection between medications for chronic diseases and their impact on Alzheimer’s as well as a lack of representation among racial and ethnic minorities in clinical trials.
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Addressing Unmeasured Confounding Bias With a Prior Knowledge Guided Approach: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) Versus Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) in Patients With Stable Ischemic Heart Disease
Unmeasured confounding undermines the validity of observational studies. Although randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are considered the “gold standard” of study types, we often observe divergent findings between RCTs and empirical settings.
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