Patient and Physician Behavior
Our work in Patient and Physician Behavior
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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
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Mortality and Morbidity in Ageing Men: Biology, Lifestyle and Environment
Males live shorter lives than women in all countries. The universality of shorter male life expectancy is a 21st Century phenomena. It occurs with the decline in infectious diseases and the rise in cardiovascular diseases accounting for mortality.
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A Cost-Utility Analysis of Remote Pulse-Oximetry Monitoring of Patients With COVID-19
Since 2020, COVID-19 has infected tens of millions and caused hundreds of thousands of fatalities in the United States. Infection waves lead to increased emergency department utilization and critical care admission for patients with respiratory distress. Although many individuals develop symptoms necessitating a ventilator, some patients with COVID-19 can remain at home to mitigate hospital overcrowding. Remote pulse-oximetry (pulse-ox) monitoring of moderately ill patients with COVID-19 can be used to monitor symptom escalation and trigger hospital visits, as needed.
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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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