Association Between a Population Health Intervention and Hypertension Control.

Introduction: As part of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Practice Transformation Network, an integrated healthcare system implemented a multimodal, population health-based hypertension clinical pathway program (HCPP) focused on hypertension management.

Aim: To determine whether the HCPP was associated with changes in hypertension control or process-of-care measures and whether associations varied for sites serving higher versus lower proportions of historically underserved patients.

Setting: An integrated academic health system encompassing 5 clinic networks and 85 primary and specialty care sites.

"Someone will come in and say I'm doing it wrong." The perspectives of fathers with learning disabilities in England.

Unlabelled: When people with learning disabilities have children and become parents, they sometimes need good support to help them.Research about parents with learning disabilities and the support they get is usually about mothers and not fathers. There is not very much written about dads with learning disabilities.

Prevention as a Population Health Strategy.

Many health care systems are shifting to value-based care and beginning to integrate population-based strategies into care delivery. Preventive care is an important domain of this work. Properly applied, these services improve population health and reduce health care costs.

To What Target Hemoglobin A1c Level Would You Treat This Patient With Type 2 Diabetes?: Grand Rounds Discussion From Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

In the United States, 9.4% of all adults-and 25% of those older than 65 years-have diabetes. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness and end-stage renal disease and contributes to both microvascular and macrovascular complications.

Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care.

Depression is one of the more common diagnoses encountered in primary care, and primary care in turn provides the majority of care for patients with depression. Many approaches have been tried in efforts to improve the outcomes of depression management. This article outlines the partnership between the University of Washington (UW) Neighborhood Clinics and the UW Department of Psychiatry in implementing a collaborative care approach to integrating the management of anxiety and depression in the ambulatory primary care setting.