Nature communications
Authors: Hara-Chikuma M, Satooka H, Watanabe S, Honda T, Miyachi Y, Watanabe T, Verkman AS
The Lancet. Oncology
Authors: Ribas A, Puzanov I, Dummer R, Schadendorf D, Hamid O, Robert C, Hodi FS, Schachter J, Pavlick AC, Lewis KD, Cranmer LD, Blank CU, O'Day SJ, Ascierto PA, Salama AK, Margolin KA, Loquai C, Eigentler TK, Gangadhar TC, Carlino MS, Agarwala SS, Moschos SJ, Sosman JA, Goldinger SM, Shapira-Frommer R, Gonzalez R, Kirkwood JM, Wolchok JD, Eggermont A, Li XN, Zhou W, Zernhelt AM, Lis J, Ebbinghaus S, Kang SP, Daud A
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
Authors: Falk RT, Dallal CM, Lacey JV, Bauer DC, Buist DS, Cauley JA, Hue TF, LaCroix AZ, Tice JA, Pfeiffer RM, Xu X, Veenstra TD, Brinton LA
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
Authors: Bastani R, Glenn BA, Maxwell AE, Jo AM, Herrmann AK, Crespi CM, Wong WK, Chang LC, Stewart SL, Nguyen TT, Chen MS, Taylor VM
Stroke
Authors: Zeki Al Hazzouri A, Vittinghoff E, Sidney S, Reis JP, Jacobs DR, Yaffe K
Journal of medicinal chemistry
Authors: Zhang YK, Plattner JJ, Easom EE, Jacobs RT, Guo D, Sanders V, Freund YR, Campo B, Rosenthal PJ, Bu W, Gamo FJ, Sanz LM, Ge M, Li L, Ding J, Yang Y
Volume 18 of Issue 6 | Population health management
Authors: Quan J, Lee AK, Handley MA, Ratanawongsa N, Sarkar U, Tseng S, Schillinger D
The objective was to determine whether automated telephone self-management support (ATSM) for low-income, linguistically diverse health plan members with diabetes affects health care utilization or cost. A government-sponsored managed care plan for low-income patients implemented a demonstration project between 2009 and 2011 that involved a 6-month ATSM intervention for 362 English-, Spanish-, or Cantonese-speaking members with diabetes from 4 publicly funded clinics. Participants were randomized to immediate intervention or a wait-list. Medical and pharmacy claims used in this analysis were obtained from the managed care plan. Medical claims included hospitalizations, ambulance use, emergency department visits, and outpatient visits. In the 6-month period following enrollment, intervention participants generated half as many emergency department visits and hospitalizations (rate ratio 0.52, 95% CI 0.26, 1.04) compared to wait-listed participants, but these differences did not reach statistical significance (P=0.06). With adjustment for prior year cost, intervention participants also had a nonsignificant reduction of $26.78 in total health care costs compared to wait-listed individuals (P=0.93). The observed trends suggest that ATSM could yield potential health service benefits for health plans that provide coverage for chronic disease patients in safety net settings. ATSM should be further scaled up to determine whether it is associated with a greater reduction in health care utilization and costs.
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Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine
Authors: Louis DN, Feldman M, Carter AB, Dighe AS, Pfeifer JD, Bry L, Almeida JS, Saltz J, Braun J, Tomaszewski JE, Gilbertson JR, Sinard JH, Gerber GK, Galli SJ, Golden JA, Becich MJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Authors: Kuebler PJ, Mehrotra ML, McConnell JJ, Holditch SJ, Shaw BI, Tarosso LF, Leadabrand KS, Milush JM, York VA, Raposo RA, Cheng RG, Eriksson EM, McMahan V, Glidden DV, Shiboski S, Grant RM, Nixon DF, Kallás EG
JACC. Clinical electrophysiology
Authors: Dewland TA, Vittinghoff E, Harris TB, Magnani JW, Liu Y, Hsu FC, Satterfield S, Wassel C, Marcus GM
