6 results match your criteria: "Massachusetts General Hospital (A.B.J.)[Affiliation]"

Supporting Value-Based Health Care - Aligning Financial and Legal Accountability.

N Engl J Med

September 2021

From the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (M.M.Z.); Harvard Medical School (A.B.J.), Harvard Business School (A.C.), and Massachusetts General Hospital (A.B.J.), Boston, and the National Bureau of Economic Research (A.B.J., A.C.) and the Harvard Kennedy School (A.C.), Cambridge - all in Massachusetts.

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Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder and Month of School Enrollment.

N Engl J Med

November 2018

From the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School (T.J.L., T.R.H., A.B.J.), the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (M.L.B.), the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (M.L.B.), and the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (A.B.J.), Boston, and the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge (T.J.L., A.B.J.) - all in Massachusetts.

Background: Younger children in a school grade cohort may be more likely to receive a diagnosis of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than their older peers because of age-based variation in behavior that may be attributed to ADHD rather than to the younger age of the children. Most U.S.

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Lost Taussigs - The Consequences of Gender Discrimination in Medicine.

N Engl J Med

June 2018

From the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (L.S.R.), the Departments of Medicine (L.S.R.) and Health Care Policy (A.B.J.), Harvard Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital (A.B.J.), Boston, and the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge (A.B.J.) - all in Massachusetts.

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Coupling Policymaking with Evaluation - The Case of the Opioid Crisis.

N Engl J Med

December 2017

From the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (M.L.B.), and the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (A.B.J.), Boston, athenahealth, Watertown (J.G.), and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (A.Z.), and the National Bureau of Economic Research (A.B.J.), Cambridge - all in Massachusetts.

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Delays in Emergency Care and Mortality during Major U.S. Marathons.

N Engl J Med

April 2017

From the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School (A.B.J., A.O.), and Massachusetts General Hospital (A.B.J.) - both in Boston, and the National Bureau of Economic Research (A.B.J.) and Harvard University (L.N.W.), Cambridge - all in Massachusetts; and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, and the National EMS Information System Technical Assistance Center - both in Salt Lake City (N.C.M.).

Background: Large marathons frequently involve widespread road closures and infrastructure disruptions, which may create delays in emergency care for nonparticipants with acute medical conditions who live in proximity to marathon routes.

Methods: We analyzed Medicare data on hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction or cardiac arrest among Medicare beneficiaries (≥65 years of age) in 11 U.S.

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Opioid-Prescribing Patterns of Emergency Physicians and Risk of Long-Term Use.

N Engl J Med

February 2017

From the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (M.L.B.), the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School (A.R.O., A.B.J.), the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (M.L.B.), and the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (A.B.J.), Boston, and the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge (A.B.J.) - all in Massachusetts.

Article Synopsis
  • Opioid prescribing practices among emergency physicians vary significantly, leading to differing rates of long-term opioid use among patients treated by high- and low-intensity prescribers.
  • A retrospective analysis of Medicare beneficiaries showed that 24.1% of patients treated by high-intensity prescribers ended up using opioids long-term, compared to 7.3% under low-intensity prescribers.
  • The findings highlight the potential influence of physician prescribing patterns on patient outcomes, emphasizing the need for more standardized prescribing practices in emergency departments.
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