Patient and Physician Behavior
Our work in Patient and Physician Behavior
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Association of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs With Consumer Health-Related Intentions and Beliefs Among Individuals at Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Consumers in the US are exposed to unprecedented high levels of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) for prescription drugs, yet there is limited evidence regarding their effect on health-related intentions and beliefs.
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Racial Differences in Patient-Reported Symptoms and Adherence to Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy Among Women With Early-Stage, Hormone Receptor–Positive Breast Cancer
Are racial differences in symptom burden during the first year of adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET) associated with differences in adherence?
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Are Unequal Policies in Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake Needed to Improve Equality? An Examination Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Los Angeles County
USC researchers examine tradeoffs between effectiveness and equality of PrEP.
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Formulary Restrictions and Stroke Risk in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
Researchers identified a sample of Medicare beneficiaries with an incident diagnosis of atrial fibrillation.
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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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Risk for Heart Attack, Stroke or Death Can Double or Triple in Older Adults Concurrently Taking Multiple Medications with Cardiovascular Side Effects
Using multiple medications with known cardiovascular adverse effects at the same time substantially increases cardiovascular risk.
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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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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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The Protocol of Improving Safe Antibiotic Prescribing in Telehealth: A Randomized Trial
o better understand how best to decrease inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for ARIs in telehealth, we are conducting a large randomized quality improvement trial testing both patient- and physician-facing feedback and behavioral nudges embedded in the electronic health record.
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It’s Time to Let Pharmacists Prescribe COVID-Fighting Pills Like Paxlovid
To reduce hospitalization and death, pharmacists should have the same prescribing abilities as doctors for COVID anti-viral drugs Paxlovid and Lagevrio, USC School of Pharmacy
Dean Vassilios Papadopoulos writes in a new MarketWatch op-ed.Categorized in