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This paper offers policymakers and researchers insights into opportunities to engage patients and families in the …
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This working paper examines how value-added models of performance measurement used in education can apply to health care when measuring and rewarding physician performance, particularly in the Medicare system. The paper finds that value-added models used to measure teacher effects on student...
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' communication with patients. Overall, approximately one-third of physicians did not completely agree with disclosing serious medical … errors to patients, almost one-fifth did not completely agree that physicians should never tell a patient something untrue … device companies to patients. …
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Using Medicaid data from 2003, this article describes the demographics and diagnoses of youth under 22 receiving mental health services in general and psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, and other residential treatment settings. The research found that treatment...
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This study used Medicaid claims to examine patterns of out-of-home care—residential treatment, psychiatric hospitals, and general hospitals—and identify demographic and diagnostic characteristics associated with the sector of care used. The study also looked at whether youth had...
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This paper reviews proposed reforms to strengthen Medicare’s long-term fiscal outlook. Looking beyond provider payment reductions, the author assesses leading strategies to improve quality of care and efficiency within Medicare as well as the overall health care system. The paper argues...
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after hospital discharge and readmission for beneficiaries with atrial fibrillation or other chronic conditions. About half … follow-up care shortly after discharge may lower readmissions for patients with atrial fibrillation or other chronic …
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