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The Relationship Between Multimorbidity and Types of Chronic Diseases and Self-Rated Memory
This study explores the impact of multimorbidity and types of chronic diseases on self-rated memory in older adults in the United States.
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Value of Reducing Wait Times for Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Treatment: Evidence From Randomized Controlled Trial Data on Tisagenlecleucel for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
Researchers aimed to quantify the value of reducing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) treatment wait times on patients with refractory and relapsed aggressive blood cancer who can newly gain access to treatment or access treatment earlier in their disease course.
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The Price of Insulin, Explained
This animation explains research by Schaeffer Center experts that offers one of the most comprehensive looks at the insulin distribution chain and shows which players are profiting, and by how much, from selling insulin.
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Improving Care of People with Serious Medical Illness: An Economic Research Agenda for Palliative Care
In 2020, Schaeffer Center established an Advisory Panel on Palliative Care. In this post, the panel outlines next steps to increase the quality of care of frail people with multiple chronic conditions.
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Chronic diseases are among the most preventable and costliest conditions, consuming the overwhelming majority of Medicare resources. The Schaeffer Center assembles leading minds from across disciplines to address this challenge, striving to simplify labyrinthine systems of care and promote healthier outcomes.
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Middlemen, Not Drug Companies, Are Pushing Up Insulin Prices, and Congress Doesn’t Have the Right Plan to Fight Back
Congress should take advantage of the current political climate and start reining in the intermediaries in the drug distribution system.
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Patient and Physician Perspectives On Engaging in Palliative and Healthcare Trials: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Researchers are encountering increasing challenges in recruiting participants for palliative and healthcare research. This paper aims to understand challenges to and methods for engaging physicians and seriously ill patients and their caregivers in research studies.
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Early Transplantation Maximizes Survival in Severe Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure: Results of a Markov Decision Process Model
The researchers create a Markov decision process model to maximize overall survival among patients listed for liver transplantation with grade three acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF-3) within the first 7 days of listing
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After Their Initial Diagnosis, Many Adult COVID-19 Patients Continue Seeking Medical Care for up to Six Months or More
Analyzing claims data, does COVID-19 related healthcare utilization persist in for 180 days or more, also known as long COVID, after their initial diagnosis?
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Multi-Cancer Blood Tests Can Reduce Late-Stage Cancer Diagnosis in Black and Latino Patients
A new white paper published by the USC Schaeffer Center focuses on the potential benefit of multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood-based tests to reduce disparities in late-stage cancer diagnosis among minority populations.
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Latinos Are More Likely to Die From COVID-19, Underlining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Outcomes
Latinos were tested more for COVID-19 and had higher rates of infection, hospitalization and death.
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