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The Johns Hopkins ACG® System Bibliography provides links to more than 900 papers and reports from across the globe detailing various studies utilizing the ACG System in a variety of locations, populations, and innovative applications.
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J Gen Intern Med 27:1112-9. Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA BACKGROUND: Cancer screening is often fully covered under high-deductible health […]
J Neurotrauma 29:2038-2049. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Data on traumatic brain injury (TBI) economic outcomes are limited. We used Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) resources […]
Kingston, ON, Canada: Queen’s University (masters thesis). Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: A significant number of laryngeal cancer patients are diagnosed with advanced-stage disease. […]
Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada This report was conducted at the Manitoba Centre for […]
Am J Manag Care 18:e155-161. Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. OBJECTIVES: The identification of patients most likely […]
Am J Prev Med 42:390-397. Group Health Permanente, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Many trials have tested different strategies to increase […]
BMC Fam Pract 13:26. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: There are continued concerns over an adequate supply […]
J Eval Clin Pract 19:267-276. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Spain OBJECTIVE: The study aims to obtain the mean relative weights (MRWs) […]
Aten Primaria 45:54-60. Published in Spanish. Instituto Vasco de Innovación Sanitaria, Sondika, Bizkaia, Spain Predictive models allow populations to be stratified according to their health […]
EHI ehealth Insider :5 March 2012. More than 200 GP practices in South Central England are getting quarterly risk stratification and predictive modelling information on […]
Ann Fam Med 10:134-141. Academic Unit of Primary Health Care, School of Social and Community Medicine, Bristol University, Bristol, UK PURPOSE: Many patients consulting in […]
Health Serv Res 47:1561-1579. Group Health Research Institute and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVE: To estimate the impact of deductibles on the initiation […]
PLoS One 7:e32190. IIS Aragón, Aragón Health Sciences Institute, Miguel Servet University Hospital, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this study […]
J Intellect Disabil Res 57:226-239. Dual Diagnosis Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Hospitalisations for ambulatory care-sensitive (ACS) conditions are […]
Arch Intern Med 172:484-491. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness in elderly individuals are largely from observational […]
Psychiatry Res 196:32-37. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canad Administrative health care databases are increasingly used for health services and […]
PLoS One 7:e32141. Multiprofessional Education Unit for Family and Community Care (Southwest), Madrid, Spain INTRODUCTION: Healthcare management is oriented toward single diseases, yet multimorbidity is […]
Geriatr Gerontol Int 12:612-621. Department of Medical Affairs and Planning, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. AIM: That geriatric evaluation and management (GEM) is associated […]
Mayo Clin Proc 87:120-129. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA OBJECTIVE: To study the association between exposure to procedures performed under general anesthesia before age 2 […]
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 97:1236-1242. University of Alberta and University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to describe changes in glucocorticoid-induced […]
Health Aff 31:306-315. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA The Affordable Care Act calls for the establishment of state-level health insurance […]
Clinicoecon Outcomes Res 4:39-47. Dirección de Planificación, Badalona Serveis Assistencials, Barcelona, Spain BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to gather information about analgesic drug […]
J Clin Epidemiol 65:924-933. Cancer Control and Screening Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington South, New Zealand OBJECTIVE: This article reviews […]
Addiction 107:776-780. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada AIMS: To determine the extent to which other opioids are prescribed to patients receiving methadone […]
Osteoporos Int 23:929-936. Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 409 Tache Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Despite targeted attempts to reduce post-fracture care gaps, we hypothesized […]
Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto (doctoral dissertation). University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada This thesis investigates the effects of immigration status, country of origin, […]
Seattle, WA, USA: University of Washington (doctoral dissertation). University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Originally described in 1967 as a central source of a medical […]
Seattle, WA, USA: University of Washington (doctoral dissertation). University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Diabetes is a chronic illness of increasing public health importance affecting […]
Seattle, WA, USA: University of Washington (doctoral dissertation). University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA This dissertation presents an economic analysis of patient-provider communication through secure […]
Med Care 50:58-65. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: The effect of bariatric surgery […]
Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Metis Federation. Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Health & Wellness Department, Manitoba Metis Federation, Winnipeg, […]
Madrid, Spain: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (masters thesis). Published in Spanish. Universidad Computense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain La naturaleza trashumante de la Humanidad le es […]
J Ambul Care Manage 35:60-74. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA We compared patient management […]
J Am Statistical Assoc 101:911-923. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA Procedures for analyzing and comparing health care providers’ effects on […]
Sacramento, CA, USA: California Health Care Foundation. In this paper, a Medical Productivity Index (MPI) is proposed as such a metric to capture the value […]
J Hosp Med 7:124-130. Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland VA Medical Center, Portland, OR, USA BACKGROUND: Studies suggest that the inpatient to outpatient transition […]
Health Policy 104:186-192. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVE: Several innovative primary care models have recently been introduced […]
Neurologia 28:126-129. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Spain La presencia de múltiples enfermedades es frecuente en edades avanzadas, y diferentes estudios poblacionales […]
J Bone Miner Res 26:2762-2769. Bone Disease Unit, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland The measurement of BMD by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the “gold […]
Fam Pract 28:128-133. Unidad de Bioingenieria y Telemedicina, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Spain BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) is a health problem that particularly […]
Aten Primaria 44:348-357. Published in Spanish. Badalona Serveis Assistencials, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain OBJECTIVE: To compare three methods of measuring multiple morbidity according to the use […]
BMC Health Serv Res 11:A22. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada INTRODUCTION: A number of different blended-payment models for primary- care delivery have […]
BMC Public Health 11:814. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada BACKGROUND: Métis are descendants of early 17th century relationships between […]
Osteoporos Int 23:2381-2386. Division of General Internal Medicine, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada Institutionalization after hip fracture occurs in at least 30% of […]
Malmo, Sweden: Lund University (doctoral dissertation). Lund University, Malmo, Sweden The overall aim of this thesis was to analyse the importance of co-morbidity level for […]
Pediatrics 128:e1053-e1061. Erratum in: Pediatrics. 2012 Mar;129(3):595. Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA BACKGROUND: Annually, millions of children are exposed […]
Health Policy 103:3-8. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Multimorbidity is increasing in frequency. It can be quantitatively measured […]
Can Fam Physician 57:e381-e389. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of electronic medical record (EMR) […]
Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Obesity is a major public health concern in Canada […]
Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation). Risk adjustment has become an essential tool in modern health services research and management. Specifically, it can […]
Am J Manag Care 17:e410-8. Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA OBJECTIVES: To determine the […]
J Ambul Care Manage 34:380-390. Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA OBJECTIVE: To determine how Community Health Centers (CHCs) perform relative […]
Med Care 49:932-939. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Department of Health Management, Policy and Evaluation, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Administrative healthcare databases […]
Med Care 49:918-923. Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: Little is known about […]
Med Care 49:940-947. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Logistic regression models that incorporated age, sex, and indicator variables for the Johns […]
Soc Indic Res 110:385-414. Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada This paper […]
Health Policy 103:9-15. Research Centre for Health Care Economics and Management, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain BACKGROUND: The Valencian Autonomous Community (Spain) has implemented […]
Health Serv Res 47:633-654. Center for Public Health Statistics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA OBJECTIVE: To compare patient profiles and health care use […]
Pediatr Pulmonol 47:211-219. British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada Given the difficulties in diagnosing, or even defining, asthma in children, claims of a pediatric […]
Med Care 49:865-871. Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA BACKGROUND: Recent health reform laws might […]
Clin Infect Dis 53:413-421. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Previous studies suggest that obesity may be a risk factor for complications […]
J Eval Clin Pract 18:1170-1179. Badalona Serveis Assistencials, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain OBJECTIVE: To compare the cost of adding either pregabalin or gabapentin to the management […]
BMC Emerg Med 11:13. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Emergency departments are medical treatment facilities, designed to […]
In: Cato W, Roberts WC, ed. Proceedings of the 2011 AFMS Medical Research Symposium, Volume 4. Healthcare Informatics Track. August 2-4, 2011, National Harbor, MD, […]
Selection bias explains apparent differential mortality between dialysis modalities. J Am Soc Nephrol 22:1534-1542. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada The relative risk of death […]
Acad Emerg Med 18:836-843. Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada OBJECTIVES: The […]
Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia (doctoral dissertation). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada BACKGROUND: In May 2003, the B.C. government introduced an […]
Med Care Res Rev 68:387-420. University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany This systematic literature review identified and summarized 35 studies that investigated the relationship between multiple […]
BMC Public Health 11:609. Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Israel BACKGROUND: The ability to accurately detect differential resource […]
Med Clin (Barc) 138:179-180. Published in Spanish. Dirección de Planificación, Badalona Serveis Assistencials, Barcelona, Spain Launched in 1943, Medicina Clínica is a fortnightly journal aimed […]
J Vasc Surg 54:1290-1297.e2. Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Incidental abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are identified when the abdomen is […]
A register-based study in a Swedish population. BMC Public Health 11:552. Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Family Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden BACKGROUND: Depressive […]
J Behav Health Serv 38:398-413. Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK To investigate patterns of mental health […]
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 12:467-474. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada INTRODUCTION: Adverse events (AEs) occur frequently in nursing homes (NHs). Although […]
Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica 28:564-565. Published in Spanish. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Spain Sr. Editor. El envejecimiento progresivo de […]
Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia (masters thesis). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada OBJECTIVES: To examine ethnic and income-related disparities in the […]
Revista Clinica Espanola 211:560-571. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Spain Morbi-mortality and use of recourses after acute coronary syndrome in a Spanish […]
Chapter 5: Intervention components. In: Schraeder C, Shelton PS, ed. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell:87-126. Care coordination seeks to bridge the gap between the needs of people […]
SEMG 139:441-448. Published in Spanish. Gerencia de Atencion Primaria del Area de Salud de Tenerife, Spain No abstract
Barcelona, Spain: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (masters thesis). Published in Catalan. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain No abstract
Aten Primaria 44:145-152. Published in Spanish. Centre d’Atenció Integral Dos de Maig, Consorci Sanitari Integral, Barcelona, Spain; Dirección de Planificación y Desarrollo Organizativo, Badalona Serveis […]
BMC Public Health 11:432. Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain BACKGROUND: There is evidence suggesting that the […]
Toronto, ON, Canada: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada Key Findings OLDER WOMEN: A look at gender differences […]
Montreal, QC, Canada: Montreal Health and Social Services Agency. Published in French. Montreal Health and Social Services Agency, Montreal, QC, Canada No abstract
J Manag Care Pharm 17:345-354. Center for Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomic Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA BACKGROUND: As defined by the Medicare Prescription […]
J Periodontol 82:1650-1656. Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Our objectives were to describe the prevalence of periodontal care (a marker of periodontitis) […]
Osteoporos Int 23:957-962. Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada It is not clear whether ankle fractures predict future osteoporotic fractures in women, […]
Ann Intern Med 154:583-592. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada. BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a largely preventable and manageable respiratory condition, […]
Am J Pharm Benefits 3:165-171. Hawaii Medical Service Association, Honolulu, HI, USA OBJECTIVES: To investigate the combinations of medications patients were taking, the study examined […]
Scand J Prim Health Care 29:104-109. Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, General Practice/Family Medicine, Malmö, Sweden OBJECTIVE. This study examined whether age, […]
Int J Equity Health 10:12. Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada BACKGROUND: This study aimed to measure […]
J Gastrointest Surg 15:782-790. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada INTRODUCTION: In Western countries, the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma […]
J Gen Intern Med 26:698-704. Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Quality of antidepressant treatment remains disturbingly poor. Rates of medication adherence and […]
WebmedCentral ECONOMICS OF MEDICINE 2:WMC001657. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Spain BACKGROUND: To determine the adaptation capacitating of categories case-mix adjustment (Adjusted […]
Med Care 49:257-266. Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada BACKGROUND: Administrative databases are increasingly being used to study the incident dialysis population […]
Popul Health Manag 14 Suppl 1:S35-S44. Healthways Center for Health Research, Franklin, TN, USA Medicare is challenged to maintain solvency as enrollment climbs because of […]
J Clin Psychopharmacol 31:56-60. Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada BACKGROUND: Independent reports suggest that various psychotropic medications and psychiatric disorders are […]
J Med Internet Res 13:e1. Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Patient-shared electronic health records provide opportunities for care outside of office visits. […]
Popul Health Manag 14:205-210. Research and Development Unit, Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC, Glen Burnie, MD, USA The objective of this study was to optimize predictive […]
Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto (masters thesis). University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada The implementation of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) may lead to improved […]
