Hospitals and Health Systems
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Rapid Growth in Oncology Practices Directly Dispensing Cancer Drugs
Medically integrated dispensing allows oncology practices to dispense oral anticancer drugs at their practices in onsite pharmacies.
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A Tale of Two Trials: A Comparative Case Study of Successful Versus Terminated Home-Based Palliative Care Trials
In 2007 we published a trial of home-based palliative care (HBPC) conducted in a managed care organization (MCO) that found significant improvements in patient satisfaction with health care, rates of home deaths, and reductions in health care use and costs.
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Electronic ‘Nudges’ May Improve Safety in Opioid Prescribing Among California Doctors, Study Finds
Researchers observed a 23% drop in opioid prescriptions and a 27% increase in prescriptions for naloxone.
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Value Defects In The Health Services Sector
As of 2021, US health care expenditures exceed $3.8 trillion. It’s no secret that health care is nearly as wasteful in spending on value defects—behaviors that needlessly reduce quality, negatively impact the patient experience, or add to total costs of care—as it is in delivering clinical benefits.
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Value of Triage Treatment Strategies to Distribute Hepatitis C Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents in an Integrated Healthcare System: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
This study aimed to assess the cost-effectiveness of fibrosis-based direct-acting antiviral treatment policies for patients with chronic hepatitis C virus at the Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States health system.
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Assessing the Use of Data Systems to Estimate Return-on-Investment of Behavioral Healthcare Interventions: Opportunities and Barriers
America is facing a behavioral health crisis, both in terms of increasing prevalence rates and high behavioral healthcare needs.
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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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What Do Nonprofit Hospitals Reward? An Examination of CEO Compensation in Nonprofit Hospitals
Privately owned nonprofit hospitals, which comprise approximately 57% of community hospitals, are exempt from most federal, state, and local taxes in exchange for the provision of community benefit.
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Cannabis Legalization and Cannabis-Involved Pregnancy Hospitalizations in Colorado
The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the association between presence of recreational cannabis dispensaries and prevalence of cannabis-involved pregnancy hospitalizations in Colorado.
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Injuries Due to Medical Error are Common. They Could Be Prevented by Reducing Complexity
Research shows that medical error is the third leading cause of death worldwide.
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