Behavior-based diabetes management: impact on care, hospitalizations, and costs.

Objectives: To (1) examine the impact of the Diabetes Care Rewards (DCR) program on adherence to care standards and (2) evaluate the economic impact of adherence to care standards.

Study Design: A retrospective observational cohort study design with propensity matching. Additional covariates adjustment was used to minimize residual imbalance.

Enhancing patient engagement and blood pressure management for renal transplant recipients via home electronic monitoring and web-enabled collaborative care.

Background: Effective management of hypertension in chronic kidney disease and renal transplantation is a clinical priority and has societal implications in terms of preserving and optimizing the value of scarce organs. However, hypertension is optimally managed in only 37% of people with chronic kidney disease, and poor control can contribute to premature graft loss in renal transplant recipients. This article describes a telehealth system that incorporates home electronic blood pressure (BP) monitoring and uploading to a patient portal coupled with a Web-based dashboard that enables clinical pharmacist collaborative care in a renal transplant clinic.

Development of an audiovisual taxonomy of pain behavior: reliability and discriminant validity.

This article represents the final stages in the development of a pain behavior taxonomy that was empirically derived from patients', spouses', and health care providers' nominations of pain behaviors. Seventy-one chronic low back pain patients and 40 controls were videotaped while undergoing a structured sequence of movements involving sitting, standing, walking, bending, and exercising, and a brief standardized interview component. Two independent observers rated each subject's videotape employing a 16-category observational rating system that included both verbal and nonverbal pain behaviors.