Publications by authors named "Laura Kauffman"

Background: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (UC) are inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) characterized by a progressive nature of the disease resulting in subsequent intestinal damage, limited efficacy of current treatments and suboptimal disease management and a significant burden for patients.

Objectives: The IBD-PODCAST study aims to estimate the proportion of Crohn's disease and UC patients with suboptimal disease control (SDC) in a real-world setting.

Methods: A non-interventional and cross-sectional study was conducted across 103 sites in 10 countries (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and UK).

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Background And Aims: Substance use disorders (SUDs) affect approximately 40.3 million people in the USA, yet only approximately 19% receive evidence-based treatment each year. reSET is a prescription digital therapeutic (PDT) and the only FDA-authorized treatment for patients with cocaine, cannabis, and stimulant use disorders.

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Background And Aims: reSET-O, an FDA-authorized prescription digital therapeutic (PDT) delivering cognitive behavioral therapy and contingency management to patients with opioid use disorder (OUD), may help improve clinical outcomes. One-year differences in healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and costs post-PDT initiation were evaluated.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of healthcare claims data compared all-cause HCRU (across hospital facility encounters [sum of inpatient stays, treat-and-release emergency department [ED] visits, partial hospitalizations, and hospital outpatient department visits] and clinician services [procedure categories]) after PDT initiation (index) between reSET-O patients and controls.

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Background: A prescription digital therapeutic (PDT) (reSET-O) may expand access to behavioral treatment for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) treated with buprenorphine, but long-term data on effectiveness are lacking.

Objective: To compare real-world healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) among patients who engaged with reSET-O and buprenorphine compared to similar patients in recovery treated with buprenorphine who did not fill their reSET-O script or engage with the PDT beyond week one.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of facility and clinical service claims data was conducted in adults with PDT initiation and between 12 weeks and 9 months of continuous enrollment in a health plan after initiation.

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Outcomes associated with buprenorphine therapy for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) are suboptimal. reSET-O is an FDA-authorized prescription digital therapeutic (PDT) delivering neurobehavioral therapy via mobile devices to patients with OUD treated with buprenorphine. This analysis evaluated the net impact of reSET-O on medical costs among actively-engaged reSET-O patients using real-world observations.

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Introduction: Buprenorphine medication assisted treatment (B-MAT) adherence for opioid use disorder (OUD) is suboptimal. reSET-O, an FDA-cleared prescription digital therapeutic, delivers neurobehavioral therapy (community-reinforcement approach+fluency training+contingency management) to B-MAT-treated OUD patients.

Methods: This retrospective claims study (10/01/2018-10/31/2019) evaluated healthcare resource utilization up to 6 months before/after reSET-O initiation.

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Purpose: Alopecia areata (AA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by the development of non-scarring alopecia. The prevalence is not well known, and estimates vary considerably with no recent estimates in the United States (US). The objective of this study was to define the current AA point prevalence estimate among the general population in the US overall and by severity.

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Oxidative stress has been linked to many diseases, but little information exists on biomarkers of oxidative stress in healthy children. The purpose of this study was to describe factors that correlate with urinary F2-isoprostanes, an indicator of oxidative stress, and to establish normal concentrations of F2-isoprostanes in children at risk to develop type 1 diabetes mellitus. Creatinine-adjusted urinary F2-isoprostanes were assessed in 342 Denver children under the age of 7 years, from whom we had collected data during 769 clinic visits from August 1997 through January 2001 (mean 2.

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