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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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Scaling up integrated care programs for people with complex needs: a realist synthesis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Appropriate care for people with complex needs calls for integrated care programs that include providers from primary care and other health and social services. Research is needed to identify mechanisms supporting successful scale-up of integrated care programs for this population. healthier communities).

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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 supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes.

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Adoption, implementation, and impact of a Diabetes Navigator program based in primary care [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Patients with diabetes who receive structured and integrated care have better control and outcomes; however, care may shift between multiple settings making coordination challenging. Study Design and Analysis: Adoption and implementation of the program is described using descriptive statistics.

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In Search for the Antivax Vaccine: Strategical & Ethical Considerations

Integrated Care News by CFHA

This phenomenon, known as the backfire effect, can be mitigated by adopting an exploratory approach and utilizing credible and supportive sources of information that are perceived as such by the receiver. The post In Search for the Antivax Vaccine: Strategical & Ethical Considerations appeared first on Integrated Care News.

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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

There is an ongoing debate about the ethics of utilizing nudges in policy and health care that focuses on whether nudging undermines autonomy and whether it could be ethically justified even if/when it does. A nudge is an intervention in the decisional context that steers people’s decisions by acting on their cognitive biases.

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Personalized medicine in a community health system: the Endeavor Health experience [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Genomic and personalized medicine implementation efforts have largely centered on specialty care in tertiary health systems. There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum.

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