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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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Understanding the Relationship Between Social Needs and Cervical Cancer Screening [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset Utilized data from a large integrated health system. Objective To understand how patient-reported social needs are associated with cervical cancer screening in a fully insured population. Study Design Cross-sectional study combining patients’ screening data from the electronic health record (EHR) with self-reported social needs.

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Impact of an Intensive Primary Care Service on Health Services Utilization in a High-Utilizer Patient Population [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls.

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Lived experience of individuals with thalassemia in Eastern India [Allergy/Immunology]

Annals of Family Medicine

The study aimed to explore the lived experiences of thalassemia patients in Eastern India and examined how social relationships impacted treatment adherence. The authors, both individually and collectively, utilized an immersion-crystallization approach to analyze the content of the interviews. Results: Among the 11 respondents, 54.6%

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An Innovative Approach to Enhancing Community Health Collaborations: A Community Engagement Directory [Participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context UT Southwestern utilizes community engagement strategies to improve health and integrate stakeholder priorities in clinical care and research. However, given the vast size of our medical center, many community engagement initiatives exist in silos and overlap in community areas creating inefficiency, inconsistency, and redundancy.

Community 130
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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Intervention/Instrument A multiclass random forest (RF) method for risk prediction was utilized. Context Optimizing continuity of care improves care quality, outcomes, and costs.

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Understanding components of Maternal Diet among those diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes and/or Hypertension in Flint, MI [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: This cross-sectional study utilized self-reported baseline data from a longitudinal study. Future research should explore relationships between maternal dietary patterns, GDM and/or GHTN and better tailor education/resources during this critical period of development.

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