Publications by authors named "E V Moen"
Background: Oncology outreach is a common strategy for addressing cancer workforce shortages, where traveling oncologists commute across clinical settings to extend their services. Despite its known benefits specifically for rural patients, oncology outreach reallocates physician resources to satellite clinics and may negatively impact the coordination of cancer care.
Methods: In this retrospective study, we identified patients with incident breast, colorectal, and lung cancers from 2016-2019 nationwide Medicare claims and linked them to oncologists using Part B.
Objective: Physician turnover rates are rising in the United States. The cancer workforce, which relies heavily on clinical teamwork and care coordination, may be more greatly impacted by turnover. In this study, we aimed to characterize oncologists who move to identify targets for recruitment and retention efforts.
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- T cell therapies, like CAR and TCR T cells, are emerging cancer treatments, but improving their effectiveness requires understanding their behavior in populations.
- The authors developed advanced tools using live-cell imaging to track and analyze modified T cells interacting with tumor cells, focusing on their morphology, movement, and interactions.
- They found that specific genetic modifications in TCR T cells led to longer interaction times and better activation against cancer cells, while other modifications increased T cell growth, paving the way for more effective cancer therapies.
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- Social network analysis has become a key tool in understanding collaborations among physicians, especially in relation to prescribing practices for older patients in Ohio.
- The concept of homophily suggests that similar individuals (like doctors with similar prescribing habits) are more likely to connect, which can influence interventions aimed at reducing risky-prescribing behaviors.
- By analyzing Medicare data and using advanced network modeling, the study aims to identify patterns of risky-prescribing among physicians, which could inform targeted group interventions to improve patient safety.
Importance: Limited availability of inpatient pediatric services in rural regions has raised concerns about access, safety, and quality of hospital-based care for children. This may be particularly important for children with medical complexity (CMC).
Objectives: To describe differences in the availability of pediatric services at acute care hospitals where rural- and urban-residing CMC presented for hospitalization; identify rural-urban disparities in health care quality and in-hospital mortality; and determine whether the availability of pediatric services at index hospitals or the experience of interfacility transfer modified rural-urban differences in outcomes.