Publications by authors named "Mark Lodes"
Background: Although several systematic reviews found that ambulatory diabetes mellitus (DM) interventions involving pharmacists generally yielded better outcomes than the ones that did not, existing studies have limitations in rigor and study design.
Objective: To examine the intention-to-treat effects of the Ambulatory Diabetes Outreach Program (ADOP) on participants' A1c values and healthcare utilization over a 52-month follow-up period.
Design: Difference-in-differences with staggered adoption.
Background: The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit is a preventive visit that is largely underutilized, a problem further compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: We implemented a digital outreach intervention to improve Annual Wellness Visit scheduling in our health system. Using a bulk outreach functionality in the electronic medical record, we sent a message to patients due for an Annual Wellness Visit and analyzed the efficacy of this message on scheduling rates while also assessing its impact by race.
A previously healthy 10-week-old infant presented with isolated unilateral facial nerve paralysis which progressed to bilateral paralysis over a 2-week period. Evaluation including MRI and CT of the brain and facial nerve, CSF evaluation and EMG yielded no diagnosis. A single F508 gene mutation on the newborn screen prompted sweat chloride testing which confirmed a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.
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