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Antiretroviral Treatment Switch Among Treatment-Experienced People with HIV

Journal of Health Economics and Outcomes Research
# Background HIV requires lifelong continuous antiretroviral therapy (ART) to prevent morbidity and mortality and to reduce onward transmission. People with HIV (PWH) may switch ART regimens for various clinical and nonclinical reasons.
Benjamin Chastek, Uche Mordi, Mary J. Christoph, Lisa B. Le, Travis Lim, Sunil Majethia, Cassidy Trom, Joshua Cohen   +7 more
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Evaluation for Learning in Primary Health Care Organizations: Aspirations, Realities and Lessons From Australia

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines tensions between the accountability and learning functions of evaluation through a case study of an evaluation capacity building (ECB) initiative undertaken in an Australian primary health care setting. We describe the ECB approach and strategies and identify enablers and barriers influencing their implementation and ...
Brad Astbury, Lucio Naccarella
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Therapeutic benefit of the most expensive drugs covered by Medicare and Medicaid

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
Introduction: The United States began drug pricing negotiations in 2024 under the Inflation Reduction Act. Evaluating the therapeutic benefit of drugs will help guide pricing decisions and are an opportunity to improve healthcare affordability.Discussion:
Tiffany Enxia Jiang, Reshma Ramachandran, Kerstin N. Vokinger, Joseph S. Ross   +3 more
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Healthcare Costs Following Medical Gender‐Affirmation: Evidence From Whole‐of‐Population Australian Administrative Data

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender incongruence in trans and nonbinary (“trans”) populations is often associated with psychological distress and increased demand for mental healthcare. Gender‐affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is a key component of care for many trans people, yet long‐term evidence around its cost implications remains limited despite increasing uptake and ...
Karinna Saxby, Dennis Petrie, Brendan J. Nolan   +2 more
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Kidney Failure Attributed to Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy: A USRDS Retrospective Cohort Study of Epidemiology, Treatment Modalities, and Economic Burden

Kidney Medicine
Rationale & Objective: This study describes the epidemiology, characteristics, and outcomes of patients with immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN)-attributed kidney failure in the US Renal Data System (USRDS) from 2008 to 2018, including health care ...
Mark E. Bensink, Deborah Goldschmidt, Zheng-Yi Zhou, Kaijun Wang, Richard Lieblich, Martin C. Bunke   +5 more
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Case‐Mix Adjustment of Multidimensional Patient‐Reported Outcomes to Assess Hospital Performance

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multidimensional patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly used to compare the performance of health care providers. Meaningful comparisons require the data to be adjusted for differences in case‐mix. The common approach in the literature is to aggregate PROM data into univariate summary scores prior to case‐mix adjustment. In
Nils Gutacker, Yuanyuan Gu
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Medication therapy management and adherence among US renal transplant recipients

Patient Preference and Adherence, 2016
Marie A Chisholm-Burns,1 Christina A Spivey,1 Elizabeth A Tolley,2 Erin K Kaplan2 1Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, 2Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, TN,
Chisholm-Burns MA, Spivey CA, Tolley EA, Kaplan EK   +3 more
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Associations Between Preexisting Depression and Anxiety and Postoperative Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Head and Neck Cancer Surgery

Head &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Depression and anxiety are common in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC), but their impacts on postoperative outcomes after major HNC surgery are not well defined. We evaluated whether preexisting, clinically diagnosed depression or anxiety independently predicted short‐term postoperative outcomes among adults undergoing HNC ...
Xiaodan Hu, Daniel Gilmore, Ericka L. Erickson, Catherine T. Haring, Kyle VanKoevering, Nolan B. Seim, Stephen Y. Kang, James W. Rocco, Ann Scheck McAlearney, Lauren E. Miller   +9 more
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Growing utilization of ambulatory spine surgery in Medicare patients from 2010–2021

North American Spine Society Journal
: Background: There is growing interest in transitioning various surgical procedures to the outpatient care setting. However, for Medicare patients, the site of service for surgical procedures is influenced by regulations within the Inpatient and ...
Alex K Miller, MD, Matthew R Cederman, BS, Daniel K Park, MD   +2 more
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A Discharge Summary Prompt Reduces Postoperative Radiotherapy Delay in Head and Neck Cancer Patients

Head &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Delays in postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) beyond 6 weeks are associated with worse outcomes in head and neck cancer (HNC). This study evaluated whether a discharge summary prompt could reduce PORT delay. Methods A retrospective review of patients from 2018 to 2023 was used as a pre‐intervention baseline.
Andreja Radevic, Niketna Vivek, Joaquin Austerlitz, Sindhura Sridhar, Whitney Jin, Robert Sinard, Sarah L. Rohde, Kyle Mannion, Alexander J. Langerman, Eben Rosenthal, Michael C. Topf   +10 more
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