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Abstract Background People who experience incarceration have poor health across a variety of indicators, but we lack population-level data on the health of females in […]
Abstract Background Hiatal hernias are often repaired concurrently with bariatric surgery to reduce risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease–related complications. Objectives To examine the association between […]
ABSTRACT Background The adjusted clinical group (ACG) is a diagnosis-based case-mix adjustment system, which has been widely evaluated in several countries other than Taiwan. The […]
Abstract Objective Frailty has been shown to portend worse outcomes in surgical patients. Our goal was to identify the impact of frailty on outcomes and […]
Abstract Objective Multi-morbidity contributes to mortality and hospitalisation in COPD, but it is uncertain how this interacts with disease severity in risk prediction. We compared […]
Abstract Background High-intensity cancer surgery is increasingly common among older adults. However, these patients are at high-risk for unexpected intensive care unit (ICU) admissions after […]
Abstract Background Advances in healthcare delivery have allowed for the increase in the number of ambulatory surgery procedures performed in Canada. Despite these advances, patients […]
Abstract Background People with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD) are reportedly intensive users of forensic inpatient services. Methods Using administrative data, we identified people with and without […]
Abstract Introduction This study assesses the risk of infection and clinical outcomes in a large consecutive population of cancer and non-cancer patients tested for SARS-CoV-2 […]
Abstract Objectives Reconstructive surgery may result in prolonged postoperative recovery, especially in frail patients, which in turn may impact delivery of adjuvant therapy. To date, […]
Abstract Survivors of childhood and adolescent cancers are at increased risk for late effects including subsequent cancer, cardiotoxicities, and poor psychosocial health. Few studies have […]
Abstract Introduction More health systems are implementing strategies to understand and address patient social health, also known as social health integration. We examine the impact […]
Abstract Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes substantial morbidity and mortality among adults. Given recent RSV vaccine authorizations, data on groups at highest risk are […]
Abstract Background and objectives Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a multisystemic disease, characterized by cutaneous manifestations and peripheral nerve sheath tumors. Patients also have a […]
Abstract Introduction Pulmonary lobectomy represents the primary curative treatment for lung cancer in older adults, yet frailty’s impact on critical early postoperative outcomes remains inadequately […]
Abstract Background Medication-related problems are common in older adults with multiple chronic conditions. We evaluated the impact of a nurse-based primary care intervention, based on […]
Dr. Jonathan Weiner participated as a featured presenter in the 2015 Big Data & Health Care Analytics forum in New York City. Watch the below […]
This presentation discusses the various v12.0 features such as refined risk assessment variables and enhanced analytics. Presented by Dr. Stephen Sutch. Learn more.
Addiction 104:203-214. Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA AIMS: To compare the medical costs and prevalence of health conditions of family […]
Anesthesiology 120:1319-1332. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth, Australia; New York State Psychiatric […]
Ann Fam Med 12:402-407. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada PURPOSE: Individuals of lower socioeconomic status have higher rates of hospitalization due to ambulatory care-sensitive […]
Contemp Clin Trials 41:45-54. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, […]
J Gen Intern Med 30:768-776. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA BACKGROUND: Early hypertension control reduces the risk of cardiovascular complications among patients with diabetes […]
Can J Diabetes 40:35-42. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; McMaster […]
Prof Case Manag 20:3-11. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA Although […]
Ann Fam Med 3:215-222. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA PURPOSE: The impact of comorbidity on […]
PLoS One 9:e91286. Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Because […]
Med Care 29:452-472. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA This article describes a […]
Health Policy 76:38-48. Centro de Salud Astrabudua, Consulado Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown the validity of Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACGs) in the […]
Diabetes Care 32:1182-1187. Department of Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis […]
J Bone Miner Res 25:388-392. Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada The World Health Organization (WHO) fracture risk assessment system (FRAX) allows […]
BMC Fam Pract 9:63. Lund University, Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, General Practice/Family Medicine, Malmö, Sweden BACKGROUND: Lithuanian primary health care (PHC) is undergoing […]
J Health Care Poor Underserved 21:92-111. St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD, USA The increased use of managed care in Medicaid warrants […]
J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:798-806. Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVES: This study sought to describe the evolution, use, […]
Diabet Med 29:1134-1141. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, ON, Canada AIMS: There are limited validated methods to ascertain comorbidities for risk adjustment […]
Res Dev Disabil 33:1270-1278. Department of Medical Affairs and Planning, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC The purpose of this study was to […]
Gac Sanit 14:195-202. Published in Spanish. Centro de Salud de Astrabudúa (Bizkaia), Osakidetza-Servicio Vasco de Salud, Bilbao, Spain OBJECTIVES: To analyze the relationship between pediatric […]
Popul Health Manag 13:201-207. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Obesity is underdiagnosed, hampering system-based health promotion […]
J Altern Complement Med 16:411-417. Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this analysis was to compare health […]
Dis Manag 11:29-36. Johns Hopkins HealthCare, Glen Burnie, MD, USA Guided Care (GC) is an enhancement to primary care that incorporates the operative principles of […]
Am J Manag Care 18:e392-e397. Department of Geriatric Medicine, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel OBJECTIVES: To determine whether a designation of frailty using the […]
Am J Manag Care 10:761-768. Department of Medicine and Center for Healthcare Improvement, Medical College of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga, USA BACKGROUND: Despite progress in describing […]
Med Care 50:131-139. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND: Hospitalizations […]
J Formos Med Assoc 103:900-907. Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Unemployment is known to be associated with increased […]
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:44-50. Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, CA, USA OBJECTIVE: To determine which antibiotics increase or decrease the risk of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea […]
Benefits Q 24:46-54. Healthcare Informatics, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, USA. Although consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) have grown dramatically, the question of whether CDHPs […]
Med Care 40:IV-26-IV-35. Health Services and Economics Branch, Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA Comorbidity, […]
Med Care 43:1155-1159. Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA BACKGROUND: Risk […]
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 […]
J Urol 188:502-506. Division of Urology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada PURPOSE: Urinary incontinence can be a significant complication of […]
PeerJ 1:e168. Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba , Winnipeg, MB, Canada BACKGROUND. Psychotropic medications, in particular second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) and benzodiazepines, have been associated […]
BMJ 346:f2267. Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada OBJECTIVE: To determine if the use of sitagliptin […]
Eur J Health Econ 15:599-610. Faculty of Health Sciences, COHERE-Centre of Health Economics Research, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark BACKGROUND: […]
Med Care 41:1301-1312. Center for Health Research, Northwest and Hawaii, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, OR, USA BACKGROUND: We examine the ability of various publicly available […]
Ann Fam Med 3:324-330. Division of Health Care Policy & Research, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA PURPOSE: […]
J Gen Intern Med Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA BACKGROUND: Little is known about […]
Clin Cardiol 37:591-596. Division of Management, Policy and Community Health, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas. BACKGROUND: Observation services are provided in […]
Ann Fam Med 12:338-343. Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA PURPOSE: Telephone- and Internet-based communication are increasingly common in primary care, yet there is […]
Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada This study examined the performance of the Johns Hopkins […]
2015 North American Primary Care Research Group Annual Meeting, October 2015, Cancun, Mexico. Context: Composite scores (CSs) provide a global measure of quality. CS development […]
2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting. Abstract 9504. J Clin Oncol 32 (suppl; abstr 9504). University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; St. Michael’s […]
IRPP Choices 12:1-30. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada The purpose of […]
Gainesville, FL, USA: Institute for Child Health Policy, University of Florida. Institute for Child Health Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Increasing numbers of […]
J Healthc Manag 8:67-84. Published in Chinese. Department of Medical Affairs and Planning, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC OBJECTIVES: Veterans have been […]
Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation). Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Rapidly rising health care costs in the United States have led […]
Final report (1/05/2003 – 30/04/2003). Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain: Osakidetza Servicio vasco de salud. Published in Spanish. Osakidetza Servicio vasco de salud, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain No abstract
Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Winnipeg, MB, Canada The health and development of Manitoba’s children were examined […]
Greifswald, Germany: Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald. Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany OBJECTIVES: To contribute to the policy discussion of equity […]
Home health services in British Columbia: a portrait of users and trends over time. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia. University of British Columbia, […]
Richmond, VA, USA: Virginia Commonwealth University (doctoral dissertation). Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA This study explored how being enrolled in a program that both […]
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 […]
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 […]
London, UK: London School of Economics and Political Science. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK The objectives of the project are to […]
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 […]
This award-winning document presented at the 2015 PCSI conference highlights work undertaken with Slough Clinical Commissioning Group in the UK. The work has challenged some […]
Use of ACG® System output to support practices in participating in a medicines management scheme – STOPP-START
Clalit Health (an integrated delivery system in Israel) used the ACG System to identify high-risk patients for enrollment in a comprehensive complex care management program […]
Iasist Casemix Information Uses and Health Services Sustainability: A Few Examples From Current Spanish Downturn Mercè Casas Carles Illa
DST Health Solutions Options for Concurrent Risk Assessment Amy Salls
Steep Increase of Registered Diagnosis Due to New Primary Care Funding Model —Martin Fredriksson Region Västra Götaland Medical Advisor at Healtcare Department M.D. Ph.D.
Population Health Emerging Risk-Medscheme
F. Avossa, 1, M.C. Corti, 2 , E. Schievano1, C. Abrams, 3 , N. Alba, 4 , S. Elvini, 5 , P. Gallina, 5, C. […]
ACG System The Johns Hopkins ACG® System Cost Risk Models Amy Salls
Joshua Sharfstein, MD, Associate Dean of the Office of Public Health Practice & Training, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and former Secretary of […]
Johns Hopkins HealthCare (JHHC), the managed care arm of Johns Hopkins, created Provider Profile reports leveraging outputs from the Johns Hopkins ACG System to build a comprehensive Provider Engagement program.
Thomas E. Kottke, MD, MSPH; Jason M. Gallagher, MBA; Sachin Rauri, MS; Juliana O. Tillema, MPA; Nicolaas P. Pronk, PhD, FACSM; Susan M. Knudson, MA […]
Objective To determine how to best measure the provision of comprehensive preventive care assessment to adults with IDD. Design Cross-sectional. Setting Ontario. Participants Adults with […]
Abstract Background: Several different indices summarize patient comorbidity using health care data. An accurate index can be used to describe the risk profile of patients, […]
Abstract Background Payers and providers still primarily use ordinary least squares (OLS) to estimate expected economic and clinical outcomes for risk adjustment purposes. Penalized […]
Abstract Study design Retrospective cohort study. Objectives The objectives for this study were to examine the prevalence of polypharmacy for people with traumatic spinal cord […]
Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIMS Methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is associated with improved outcomes for children exposed to maternal opioid dependence in utero. We examined Ontario’s […]
Abstract Background Events occurring outside the hospital setting are underevaluated in surgical quality improvement initiatives and research. Objective To quantify regional variation in home care […]
Abstract Importance Sex-based income disparities are well documented in medicine and most pronounced in surgery. These disparities are commonly attributed to differences in hours worked. […]
Abstract Background Individuals on the autism spectrum are at greater risk for a variety of co-occurring psychiatric and medical conditions, which could result in greater […]
Abstract Background and purpose To characterize the frequency and risk of serious infections in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) relative to age/sex/area‐matched comparators. Methods This […]
Abstract Background Gastrointestinal cancer surgery patients often develop perioperative anemia commonly treated with red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. Given the potential associated risks, evidence published […]
