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Changes in Spending, Risk Selection, and the Response of Frontline Clinicians: Understanding Performance Mechanisms in the Medicare Shared Savings Program
(2021)
Confronted by an increasingly expensive and fragmented health care system, public and private payers have established a series of reforms designed to lower costs and improve quality. A leading example is the Medicare Shared ...
Using a Massive Open Online Course Format to Engage Health Professions Students Regarding Health Systems Science and the U.S. Healthcare System
(2019)
As the U.S. healthcare system undergoes significant transformation, providers who have been traditionally viewed as the nexus of care delivery inside the healthcare system, are struggling to effectively participate in ...
Was That a Seizure? Diagnosis in Lived Experience and Medical Practice
(2021)
This dissertation examines how people with epilepsy and physicians make sense of seizure and epilepsy. Seizures are transient phenomena during which people lose control over parts of body-mind function. This can mean the ...
Severe Illness Associated With Respiratory Viruses: Burden and Temporal Dynamics
(2020)
Acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI) are a substantial source of global morbidity and mortality, particularly among young children. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza are consistently observed to ...
Functional Status, Quality of Life, and Long-Term Survival in a Cohort of Women with Breast Cancer and Heart Failure: Results of the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey
(2017)
The aging population and marked growth of chronic non-communicable disease pose new challenges for the United States healthcare system. Breast cancer survivors with complex chronic conditions are a growing population. Of ...
Multiple Chronic Conditions and Post-Stroke Functional Outcome
(2020)
Stroke is a leading cause of disability in the United States (US) and the number of disabled stroke survivors will rise with the aging population. The aging of the US population will also lead to an increase in the prevalence ...
Knee Osteoarthritis: Intersections of Obesity, Inflammation, and Metabolic Dysfunction.
(2012)
Background: Obesity is a risk factor for osteoarthritis (OA) and may impart joint-damaging effects through dysfunctional metabolic mechanisms associated with increased adipose tissue.
Objective: To evaluate the relationship ...
Identifying Optimal Anemia Management Practices in Hemodialysis
(2019)
Optimal anemia management strategies for end-stage kidney disease patients treated with hemodialysis are unknown, with controversies over how best to utilize erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESA) and intravenous iron to ...
Hsp70 chaperone Proteins and their Interactions with Various Drugs as Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
(2011)
Chaperone proteins and their cochaperones are perhaps one of the most intriguing systems for investigation. Ubiquitous in nature, they can be found in every organism and that perhaps is the reason that their sequence shows ...
Case studies in bias reduction and inference for electronic health record data with selection bias and phenotype misclassification
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-12-10)