Patient and Physician Behavior
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Informing Clinicians of a Patient’s Fatal Overdose Changes Their Prescribing Behavior
When a clinician is given information about a patient’s fatal overdose caused by prescription opioids, they decrease their opioid prescribing.
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Who Wins When a Prescription Copay Exceeds the Drug Price? (Not the Patient)
Use an interactive graph to see how frequently a co-payment exceeds the price of commonly prescribed drugs and the average size of the overpayment.
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Are High-Deductible Plans a Healthy Option for Patients?
High-deductible health plans may have unintended consequences for patients.
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From Behaviour to Data to Models and Back Again
Stephane Hess makes the case for moving beyond treating individual decisions in isolation and discusses the potential benefits and pitfalls of moving away from models grounded in economic theory.
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Assessment of Follow-up Care After Emergency Department Presentation for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion (JAMA Network Open)
A new study of 831 patients sent to top-level trauma centers for a concussion or mild traumatic brain injury found that only 44 percent saw a physician or other provider within three months of their injury, a critical period for care.
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Cost-Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Care in Mild to Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States: A Modeling Study
Multidisciplinary care (MDC) programs have been proposed as a way to alleviate the cost and morbidity associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the US. Schaeffer fellow Eugene Lin estimates that a Medicare-funded MDC program could improve health outcomes.
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Effects of Treatment, Choice, and Preference on Health-Related Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Patients with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Health outcomes may depend on which treatment is received, whether choice of treatment is given, and whether a received treatment is the preferred therapy.
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Trends in Opioid Use and Prescribing in Medicare, 2006-2012
More than 1 in 3 beneficiaries filled an opioid prescription annually; about 1 in 10 were chronic opioid users.
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Patient Cost-Sharing for Prescription Drugs: Policy Issues
The USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy will host a conference on the policy issues surrounding patient drug cost sharing. Two panels will convene, first to discuss restructuring the Medicare Part D benefit design, and then to debate the effectiveness of mechanisms to reduce cost sharing for commercially insured patients.
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Where Patients Get Prescription Opioids: It’s Not Where You Might Think
A new study is a hard look in the mirror for how providers have contributed to the addiction epidemic