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J Particip Med
January 2025
School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Greenville, SC, United States.
Background: It remains unclear if there is agreement between physicians and patients on the definition of treatment success following orthopedic treatment. Clinical progress notes are generated during each health care encounter and include information on current disease symptoms, rehabilitation progress, and treatment outcomes.
Objective: This study aims to assess if physicians and patients agree on whether patient outcomes captured in clinical progress notes reflect a successful treatment outcome following orthopedic care.
Ann Am Thorac Soc
January 2025
University of California San Francisco, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, San Francisco, California, United States.
Rationale: Globally, in 2019, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was the third leading cause of death. While tobacco smoking is the predominant risk factor, the role of long-term air pollution exposure in increasing risk of COPD remains unclear. Moreover, there are few studies that have been conducted in racial and ethnic minoritized and socioeconomically diverse populations, while accounting for smoking history and other known risk factors.
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January 2025
America's Physician Groups, Washington, DC.
Importance: Many physician groups are in 2-sided risk payment arrangements with Medicare Advantage plans (at-risk MA). Analysis of quality and health resource use under such arrangements may inform ongoing Medicare policy concerning payment and service delivery.
Objective: To compare quality and efficiency measures under 2 payment models: at-risk MA and fee-for-service (FFS) MA.
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
February 2025
Division of Clinical Pharmacy, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
Purpose: To characterize trajectories of nephrotoxic potential (NxP) drug use among older adults with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) treated with SGLT2is and identify associated patient characteristics.
Methods: Using 2012-2019 Medicare data, we selected patients with T2D who filled at least one prescription for SGLT2is. Index date was the date of the first SGLT2i prescription filled.
Neurol Clin Pract
April 2025
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Background And Objectives: Early presentation and acute treatment for patients presenting with ischemic stroke are associated with improved outcomes. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a large decrease in patients presenting with ischemic stroke, but it is unknown whether these changes persisted.
Methods: This study analyzed emergency department (ED) stroke presentations (n = 158,060) to all nonfederal hospitals in the 50 states and Washington, D.
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