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ACOs Holding Commercial Contracts Are Larger And More Efficient Than Noncommercial ACOs [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Affairs, 2016
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have diverse contracting arrangements and have displayed wide variation in their performance. Using data from national surveys of 399 ACOs, we examined differences between the 228 commercial ACOs (those with ...
David Peiris, Carrie Hoverman Colla
exaly   +2 more sources

The relationship between inflammatory markers and spirometric parameters in ACOS, Asthma, and COPD

open access: yesJournal of Asthma, 2020
Objective: The inflammatory mechanisms underpinning asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap syndrome (ACOS) have not been fully elucidated.
Bilun Gemicioğlu   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Transplantation in ACOs

Anesthesiology Clinics, 2013
The United States exhibits subpar health care outcomes compared with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development peer group. An urgent need exists to address the excessive cost and unsustainable trajectory of expenditures associated with US health care.
Zoltan, Hevesi, Laura, Hammel
openaire   +2 more sources

ACOs Serving High Proportions Of Racial And Ethnic Minorities Lag In Quality Performance [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Affairs, 2017
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are intended, in part, to improve health care quality. However, little is known about how ACOs may affect disparities or how providers serving disadvantaged patients perform under Medicare ACO contracts.
Taressa K Fraze, Carrie Hoverman Colla
exaly   +2 more sources

Asthma–COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) vs ‘pure’ COPD: a distinct phenotype?

open access: yesAllergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2017
International audienceBACKGROUND:Some studies suggest that asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) is associated with worse outcomes than chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The goal of this study was to further explore the clinical characteristics
Denis Caillaud   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

An ACO Approach to Planning

2009
In this paper we describe a first attempt to solve planning problems through an Ant Colony Optimization approach. We have implemented an ACO algorithm, called ACOPlan, which is able to optimize the solutions of propositional planning problems, with respect to the plans length.
BAIOLETTI, Marco   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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