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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. A difference-in-differences (DID) approach was used to compare outcomes in two groups: Medicaid beneficiaries assigned to KHH and those who were not.

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Cervical Cancer Screening Differences Between Black and White Women: An Examination of HPV and Pap Test Utilization. [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context The introduction of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) test and the 2012 Cervical Cancer Screening (CCS) guidelines expanded the way providers offer and interpret screening for their patients. Targeted public health communication is also necessary to inform patients about various CCS types. population.

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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Introduction The Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) recognizes the utility and potential for Measurement Based Care (MBC) as a core feature of high-quality integrated healthcare. MBC enhances therapeutic alliance and improves culturally informed care to diverse patient groups. (10, 3, 4) Why is MBC important?

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When Worlds Collide: The Theory of Real-World Evidence Meets Reality

FDA Law

FDA recognizes the potential of RWE to support regulatory submissions of medical devices and to inform benefit-risk analysis of such products, while assuring patients have timely access to devices. Patients that use ESD undergo continuous 24/7 monitoring. Patients are continually monitored for safety.

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Frailty Triples Odds of More Severe RSV Illness

Physician's Weekly

Frail patients often have compromised immune responses, which increases their vulnerability to infections and reduces their ability to recover from acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs), including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the researchers continued. Data came from the three influenza seasons from 2012 to 2015.

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Human papillomavirus vaccination in community-based clinics among adolescents by ethnicity, country of birth, and sex [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Some research has found lower HPV vaccine uptake in Latino patients and others have demonstrated higher uptake by Latino subgroups. Results Among both male and female patients, all Latino/a groups had higher odds of vaccine initiation and of ? Dataset OCHIN electronic health record data from 27 US states.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

Upon entering the room, you find the patients nurse at the bedside already in mid-conversation with the patients parent. In pediatric patients, this condition should be considered when blood pressure exceeds the 95th percentile for age, height, and sex by more than 30 mm Hg, or reaches levels above 180/120 mm Hg in older adolescents.