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HPV Vaccine Secondary Acceptance: Turning No into a Yes! [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Identify patient, provider, and healthcare process and utilization factors associated with rates of secondary acceptance of the HPV vaccine. Existing research on secondary acceptance has focused on demographics and initial declination with little evidence around factors associated with increased rates of secondary acceptance.

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Factors Associated with Accumulating Diabetes Complications in a Medicare Advantage Cohort to Inform a Prediction Tool [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

While preventable, many fail to receive timely treatment in primary care, leading the most vulnerable to accumulate complications. We used multilevel mixed effects models with a progressively expanding set of variables, including demographics (model 1), comorbidities (model 2), utilization (model 3), and quality measures (model 4).