Am J Manag Care 19:725-732. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA BACKGROUND: Care coordination is a key component of the patient-centered medical home. However, the mechanism […]
Ann Surg Oncol 20:1427-1435. Department of Surgery, UW Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA BACKGROUND: Individuals ≥ 80 years of age […]
PLoS One 8:e64217. Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada BACKGROUND: Despite concerns over the potential for severe adverse events, antipsychotic medications remain […]
Chest 145:272-281. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences; Sunnybrook Research Institute; Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of COPD […]
Am J Manag Care 10:783-790. HSI Network LLC, USA OBJECTIVES: To develop a systems approach to identify, for further evaluation, patients with potential controlled substance […]
Am J Med Qual 30:512-519. Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA The federal government is investing approximately $30 billion in incentives for adoption […]
Am J Pharm Benefits 2:412-420. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between copayment level and drug switching among […]
Working Paper 150004. Toronto, ON, Canada: Canadian Centre for Health Economics. Canadian Centre for Health Economics, Toronto, ON, Canada Objective: to examine the extent of […]
Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia (doctoral dissertation). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Introduction: Early detection and management, as outlined in dementia […]
New York, NY, USA: Commonwealth Fund. Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY, USA CareOregon, a Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit Medicaid health plan, developed two innovative programs to […]
Semergen doi:10.1016/j.semerg.2009.12.003. Published in Spanish. Servicio Canario de la Salud, Santa Cruzde Tenerife, Spain The analysis of the morbidity and management of its knowledge is […]
Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, […]
Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 3:A13. No abstract
Reporting Framework Subcommittee of the Steering Committee of the Minnesota ACG Users Group. Revised by Chad Abrams, Terry Bernhardt, Steven Foldes, Jason Wiley, May 17, […]
Richmond, VA, USA: Virginia Commonwealth University (doctoral dissertation). Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA The central thesis of this study is that exposure to the […]
In: Culyer AJ, Newhouse JP, ed. Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Science B. V.:755-845. Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Boston University, Boston, […]
Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia (doctoral dissertation). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada The objectives of this thesis are to identify equity […]
Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University (doctoral dissertation). Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA BACKGROUND. Work limitations are functional limitations within the work context resulting […]
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, […]
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 […]
Kingston, ON, Canada: Queens University (masters theseis). Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the world. Non-curative, […]
Kingston, ON, Canada: Queen’s University (masters thesis). Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: The amount of time that it takes to get a breast cancer […]
J Osteoporosis Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Barakaldo, Spain BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of depression in the population […]
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Value of Patient Identification Karen Kinder, PhD., MBA
Hospital Authority One Way of Measuring Morbidity of HA Patients: from Research to Lessons Learnt Dr. Deacons Yeung Chief Manager
DST Health Solutions ACG 10 Lisa Kabasakalian
Integral Health Solutions Applying ACGs to care co-ordination, planning and commissioning Bernadette Bailey, Transformation Programme Manager, Eastern Cheshire CCG Jayne Molyneux, Care Co-ordination Advisor, Integral […]
Concurrent Resource Use and All Age Modeling – Chad Abrams
David Linz, MA Robert Reid, MD, PhD Paul Fishman, PhD
At an event celebrating the ACG System receiving the 2015 Health Services Research (HSR) Award from AcademyHealth, Patricia M. C. Brown, Esq., President, Johns Hopkins […]
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) supports the delivery of integrated, affordable, and high-quality health services to Military Health System (MHS) beneficiaries and is responsible for […]
Background: A small number of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) receive pulmonary function testing around the time of diagnosis. Because omitting testing increases […]
Abstract Background: Using electronic health records (EHRs), in addition to claims, to systematically identify patients with factors associated with adverse outcomes (geriatric risk) among older […]
Abstract Background: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic debilitating disease with long-lasting comorbidities that impose direct and indirect costs on the health care system. However, […]
Abstract Background Pain is more common among people living with HIV (PLWH) than their counterparts; however, it is unclear whether analgesic use differs by […]
Abstract Primary Health Networks (PHNs) are tasked to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of general practice. Gold Coast Primary Health Network (GCPHN) has been collecting […]
Abstract Background Physical therapy (PT) is an accepted standard of care after total joint arthroplasty (TJA) and essential to maximizing joint functionality and minimizing complications […]
Abstract Background The Johns Hopkins ACG System is widely used to predict patient healthcare service use and costs. Most applications have focused on adult populations. […]
Abstract Background The majority of new hepatitis C (HCV) cases occur among people who inject drugs. In recent years, multidisciplinary models of HCV treatment have […]
Abstract Background Currently, 11% of patients seen in the emergency department for atrial fibrillation die within 1 year of the visit. Our objective was to […]
Abstract Objectives To identify and summarise existing indices for measuring multimorbidity beyond disease counts, to establish which indices include mental health comorbidities or outcomes, and […]
Abstract While an increasing number of girls and women are being identified with autism, we know little about the health of reproductive-aged autistic women. Our […]
Abstract Objectives To determine the impact of frailty on postoperative readmission, morbidity, and mortality among patients undergoing surgery for endometrial cancer. Methods Patients with endometrial […]
Abstract Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is often accompanied by chronic diseases, including mental health problems. We aimed at studying mental health comorbidity prevalence […]
Abstract OBJECTIVE Pituitary adenomas (PAs) are among the most common intracranial tumors. Understanding the clinical effects of various modifiable risk factors (MRFs) and nonmodifiable risk […]
Abstract Aims To describe the impact of diabetes comorbidities on the health care services use and costs of a cohort of elderly patients with diabetes […]
Abstract Hypothesis There is limited data on the care and outcomes of individuals with both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer, particularly in […]
Abstract Background: A standard measure of the cancer diagnostic pathway, diagnostic interval, is the time from “first presentation of cancer” to diagnosis. Cancer presentation may be […]
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 Background Frailty aggregates a composite of geriatric and elderly features that is classified into a singular syndrome; literature thus far has proven its influence […]
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 To examine the impact of time to surgery (TTS) on survival among patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods All […]
Abstract Background The progressive ageing in developed countries entails an increase in multimorbidity. Population-wide predictive models for adverse health outcomes are crucial to address these […]
ABSTRACT Background Frailty is an established predictor of admission into long-term care (LTC) and mortality in the elderly population. Assessment of frailty among adults with […]
This webinar focuses on a project undertaken in Slough Clinical Commissioning Group where information from the ACG System was used to profile the population of […]
Presented by: David Bodycombe, ScD, MSc
Director ACG System Research
This Webinar describes his study, which created and assessed three measures of high-risk opioid use, presents results supporting the utility of these measures, and describes how the resulting measures are being deployed within the ACG System. Learn More.
Med Care 52:751-756. Centre for Primary Care Research, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland BACKGROUND: Risk prediction models have been developed to identify […]
Scand J Prim Health Care 32:232-240. Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Norway OBJECTIVE: To compare the likelihood of being […]
BMC Fam Pract 15:183. Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden BACKGROUND: Age, gender and socioeconomic […]
Surgery 157:423-451. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; K Long Health Economics Consulting LLC, St. Paul, MN, USA BACKGROUND: We estimated medical costs attributable to venous […]
J Health Care Poor Underserved 26:519-535. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA We compared preventive counseling services provided by health centers versus other physician offices. […]
Med Care 54:277-286. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada; Monash University, Clayton, […]
J Clin Psychopharmacol 35:667-671. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada Small […]
Am Heart J 170:123-132. University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada; University […]
Scand J Public Health Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden; Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Pain is common in […]
Cell Mol Biol 47:1209-1215. Hawaii Medical Service Association, Care Management, Honolulu, HI, USA Despite the fact that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are the fastest […]
J Gen Intern Med 25:920-925. Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA BACKGROUND: Research has documented greater health care costs attributable to intimate partner violence […]
Ann Fam Med 7:396-405. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada PURPOSE: Universal coverage of physician services should serve to reduce socioeconomic disparities in […]
Health Serv Res 30:657-671. Graduate Program in Hospital and Health Administration, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA. OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the determinants of […]
Med Care 43:1130-1139. Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada OBJECTIVES: Implementation of the International Statistical Classification of Disease and Related […]
Br J Gen Pract 61:e12-e21. Department of Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK BACKGROUND: In developed countries, primary health care increasingly involves the care […]
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 […]
J Clin Psychopharmacol 28:384-391. Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada BACKGROUND: Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), benzodiazepines, and antipsychotics have each been […]
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, […]
Arch Fam Med 7:352-357. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE, USA OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between provider continuity […]
Health Care Manage Rev 32:22-29. University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, USA. BACKGROUND: The relationship of distance to care with total health care utilization […]
J Public Health Med 13:189-197. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, School of Health Care Sciences, Medical School, Newcastle, UK Resource management in Ambulatory Care is […]
Aust N Z J Public Health 26:500-507. Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia OBJECTIVE: Australia is beginning to […]
Med J Malaysia 67:363-368. Ministry of Health, Kangar Health Clinic, Jalan Kolam, Kangar, Perlis, Malaysia Allocation of funding within the Ministry of Health of Malaysia […]
Parkinsonism Relat Disord 18:930-935. Movement Disorder Clinic, 200 Woodlawn Street, Winnipeg, MB, Canada PURPOSE: To investigate factors associated with healthcare utilization and prescription drug use […]
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:279-285. Department of Health Policy and Management, Health Services Research and Development Center, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, […]
Am J Manag Care 8:413-422. HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA OBJECTIVE: To learn whether the healthcare costs for patients of various care delivery systems […]
Gac Sanit 11:83-94. Published in Spanish. Unitat d’Investigació Centre del Institut Catalá de la Salut, Barcelona, Spain OBJECTIVES: The ambulatory care groups (ACGs) were developed […]
Aten Primaria 40:447-454. Published in Spanish. Dirección de Planificación y Desarrollo Organizativo. Badalona Serveis Assistencials S.A. Badalona. Barcelona. España OBJECTIVE: To determine the comorbidity, the […]
Front Psychiatry 1:144. Health Services and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK OBJECTIVES: To examine longitudinal patterns of complexity, continuity, […]
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 […]
JAMA 285:60-66. Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA CONTEXT: A shortage of data exists on medical care use by persons with […]
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 […]
BMJ Open 2:2012-000941. Directorate of Planning, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain OBJECTIVES: To describe the adaptive capacity of the Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACG) […]
Mil Med 178:986-993. Healthcare Informatics Division, United States Air Force Medical Support Agency, San Antonio, TX, USA Evidence-based articles have demonstrated an increase in diabetes […]
Diabetes Care 36:2726-2733. University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Group Health Research Institute, […]
Osteoporos Int 24:659-669. Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada SUMMARY: Using a matched cohort design, we estimated the mean direct […]
Am J Sports Med 41:2034-2040. University of Toronto Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada BACKGROUND: Factors contributing to recurrent dislocation, revision stabilization, […]
J Ambul Care Manage. Kaiser Permanente Northwest Center for Health Research, Portland, OR; Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA To estimate how the […]
Med Care 39:1170-1181. Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA BACKGROUND: Utilization risk assessment is potentially useful for allocation […]