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Association of anxiety and depression with hypertension control
This study by Dr. Heather Johnson's team aimed to evaluate rates and predictors of incident hypertension control among patients with…
Strange bedfellows: A local insurer/physician practice partnership to fund innovation
In this article by the UW PATH collaborative, investigators describe a novel program that funds ambulatory care improvements through a partnership between…
The impact of a patient's concordant and discordant chronic conditions on diabetes care quality measures
Dr. Elizabeth Magnan et al. sought to determine the impact of the number of concordant and discordant chronic conditions on…
Establishing chronic condition concordance and discordance with diabetes
This study by Dr. Elizabeth Magnan et al. aimed to determine which chronic conditions are concordant and discordant with diabetes…
Are waiting rooms passé: A pilot study of patient self-rooming
Timeliness of care after patients arrive at the primary care office has received little focus. In this article, the UW…
Approaches and challenges to optimising primary care teams' electronic health record usage
The UW PATH collaborative examined the approaches used and challenges perceived by analysts supporting the optimization of primary care teams'…
The effects of expanding public insurance to rural low-income childless adults
In this study, Marguerite Burns et al. used insurance claims and Medicaid enrollment files to measure the change in health care use…
The effect of Medicare Part D on the quality of pharmacotherapy for bipolar 1 disorder among dually enrolled beneficiaries
In this article, Dr. Marguerite Burns et al. sought to determine whether the shift in 2006 from Medicaid coverage for…
Effects of Medicare Part D on guideline-concordant pharmacotherapy for bipolar 1 disorder among dually enrolled beneficiaries
Marguerite Burns et al. examined the effect of an insurance coverage transition that occured in 2006, which shifted coverage from Medicaid…
Low-cost transitional care with nurse managers making mostly phone contact with patients cut rehospitalization at a VA hospital
The Coordinated-Transitional Care (C-TraC) Program was designed to improve care coordination and outcomes among patients with high-risk conditions discharged to…