The Liu laboratory applies biostatistics to several areas of research, including: basic cancer research and clinical trials of cancer immunotherapy; infectious diseases; behavioral and educational intervention research; and research
on health care outcomes.
Not exact matches
Since value depends
on results, not inputs, value in
health care is measured by the
outcomes achieved, not the volume of services delivered, and shifting focus from volume to value is a central challenge.
Sara Fagen, DDC Advocacy, and CNBC's John Harwood discuss the potential
outcomes of the Senate's procedural vote
on health care.
In February, they hosted early - stage
health IT start - ups focused
on value - based
care and improving patient
health outcomes.
Value - based
care is an emerging payment model that focuses
on measuring a patient's
health outcome against the cost of delivering the
outcome.
Under his leadership, Humana has created an integrated
care delivery model centered
on improving
health outcomes, driving lower costs, enhancing quality, and providing a simple and personalized member experience.
Lastly, the rankings factored
health care costs based
on three data points: (1) the average
health insurance premium, sourced from KFF.org; (2) portion of
health costs covered by Medicare, sourced from CMS.gov; and (3) state rankings
on senior
health outcomes from AmericasHealthRankings.org.
This area covers the impact of policies affecting Canadians»
health and long - term
care choices and
outcomes, for example regarding access to and quality of
care, funding arrangements and incentives, pharmaceuticals policies, intergenerational equity considerations, and the impact of these choices
on the public purse.
Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other
health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the
outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects
on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report
on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports
on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available
on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as
on Express Scripts» most recent report
on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports
on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available
on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.
«Hard as it might be, reducing
health care's burden
on the economy while improving
outcomes for employees and their families would be worth the effort.»
Key themes are: a) The impact of maternal
health policy at a
health system and service delivery level, and
on health outcomes and users» experiences b) The social and organisational implications of the translation of innovative
health technologies into
health care.
The resulting 9 Common Ground Statements describe a maternity
care environment that respects a woman's autonomy, reduces
health disparities, supports cross-professional collaboration and communication, promotes physiologic birth, expands research that includes the woman in defining the elements of «safety», and accurately assesses the effects of birth place
on outcomes and experience.
Primary
care trusts will play a key role in commissioning services that contribute to improving public
health, encourage partnership working and user involvement, and emphasise normality.33 Further research is needed
on the factors that maximise normal births and healthy
outcomes for mothers and babies, in the short and longer term.
The United States spends close to twice, per capita, that any other industrialized country spends
on health care without better
outcomes.
Our work honors all the ways babies are fed and nourished by promoting safe, evidence - based practices, and strives to empower parents and parents - to - be with information
on how to safely feed their babies, identify feeding risk factors, work with
health care providers, recognize signs of feeding issues and related infant
health conditions, and avoid infant re-hospitalizations and negative
outcomes.
Moreover, robust evidence
on the cost effectiveness of birth in alternative settings is a priority, as was highlighted by the recent National Institute for
Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guidance
on intrapartum
care.11 The Birthplace in England research programme was designed to fill gaps in research evidence about the processes and
outcomes associated with different settings for birth in the NHS in England.
For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of
Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre
on choice and
outcome of maternity
care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of
care in a free standing midwifery unit with
care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth
care.
Investing in postpartum
care using a holistic framework would have significant positive impacts
on the
health and social
outcomes for new mums, babies, dads, families and communities.
Major upgrades
on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and improvements overall in regional medical
care have yet to translate into improved
health outcomes in Western New York, according to two major national reports released this week.
We already pay a higher percentage of our GDP
on health care (with weaker measurable
outcomes) than every other advanced economy.
The NHS is now back in balance and delivering improvements in
health outcomes, the lowest waits
on record, as well as providing a level of
care that ten years ago was only offered to those who could afford it,» she argued.
There is a large number of residents
on Medicaid with poorer - than - average
health outcomes who use the emergency room for primary
care at disproportionately high rates.
Access to medication and treatments Diabetes UK believes that people with diabetes should have equal access to the best diabetes
care and
health outcomes available
on the basis of clinical need and appropriateness, not
on their or the NHS's ability to pay.
Ensuring access to high quality
care for people with diabetes Diabetes UK and the Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) believe that all people with diabetes should have equal access to the best possible diabetes
care and
health outcomes provided
on the basis of clinical need..
Let me point to 10 things that I sketched out this morning: too much money spent
on administration and bureaucracy and not enough
on front - line patient
care; too little patient - centric information to inform decision making; too little innovation; too little clinical input into decision making; too much inertia and hostility to reform, as we have seen today; too much process - driven target culture distorting clinical decision making; falling productivity; poor
outcomes across a range of clinical indicators; too often, weak commissioning of servicing; and widening
health inequalities in the past 10 years, in addition to the scandals that occurred in Staffordshire and Kent.
However, increased social spending per dollar spent
on health care was associated with improved
health outcomes at the population level by province.
A new study entitled «Oral Nutrition Supplements» Impact
on Hospital
Outcomes in the Context of Affordable
Care Act and New Medicare Reimbursement Policies» and conducted by leading researchers at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, The Harris School at The University of Chicago and Precision
Health Economics, and supported by Abbott, found that the use of oral nutritional supplements decreased the probability of 30 - day hospital readmission, length of stay and costs among hospitalized Medicare patients aged 65 and over.
• When it comes to defining provider quality, most Americans tend to focus
on certain aspects of quality relating to doctor - patient interactions and doctors» personality traits, rather than the effectiveness of the
care provided or the patient's own
health outcomes.
Researchers suggest that reducing the frequency of AKI - D diagnoses would improve the
health outcomes of NRSOT patients and take less of a financial toll
on the
health care system.
Now a newly published study with a distinctive design, led by an MIT
health care scholar, shows that increased spending
on emergency
care does, in fact, produce better
outcomes for patients.
«
On a broader systems level, tracking
health care utilization and
health outcomes will help organizations monitor
health at the population level and provide hard data to policymakers seeking to implement other supportive remedies,» they note.
«Our goal here was to get a picture of what is happening when patients go to a SNF after hospital discharge, and we found that some of the assumptions about the impact of nursing home quality
on outcomes may have been overstated,» says the study's lead author, Mark Neuman, MD, MSc, an assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical
Care and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of
Health Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
DeCamp says previous studies have linked poor child and adult
health outcomes to poverty and ACEs — broadly defined as abuse, exposure to violence and family dysfunction — which can contribute to lifelong negative effects
on health and
health care disparities.
The
Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS)- Texas report is based on the HRMS, a national project that provides timely information on implementation issues under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and changes in health insurance coverage and related health out
Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS)- Texas report is based
on the HRMS, a national project that provides timely information
on implementation issues under the Affordable
Care Act (ACA) and changes in
health insurance coverage and related health out
health insurance coverage and related
health out
health outcomes.
Further research incorporating patient
outcomes and data from actual clinical interactions is warranted to clarify the effect of clinician implicit bias
on the provision of
health care and
outcomes,» the study concludes.
«While many employers are interested in making wellness efforts more social to increase engagement, based
on our findings there is a significant opportunity to go further and improve
outcomes by better designing these competitions,» said senior author David A. Asch, MD, MBA, a professor of Medicine and
Health Care Management and director of the Penn Center for
Health Care Innovation.
«But we are living in a time where we spend more money
on health care than other developed countries and our
outcomes are worse.
Further analysis was conducted
on two variants for effects
on additional
health -
care related
outcomes.
«By embedding mental
health screening in the emergency department, we are making it part of our
health care culture — reducing the stigma associated with mental
health problems and providing the opportunity for early identification and treatment for all children,» said Jeffrey I. Gold, PhD, director of the Children's
Outcomes, Research and Evaluation program at CHLA and an author
on the study.
These drug pricing discrepancies could become even more important depending
on the
outcome of the pending Supreme Court case King vs. Burwell, which challenges the legitimacy of federal
health -
care subsidies and could leave as many as 8 million Americans without subsidies and uninsured in 2016.
Caregivers» experienced better
health outcomes when they were older,
caring for a spouse, had higher income, better social support, sense of control, and caregiving had less of a negative impact
on their everyday lives.
«As the most prevalent chronic illness in children, asthma imposes a major financial burden
on many
health care systems,» said study leader Jeffrey H. Silber, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Center for
Outcomes Research at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
Brent James, vice president for medical research and executive director, Institute for
Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare, and known internationally for his innovative work on improving the quality and safety of health care delivery, comments: «Progress in CF - related care delivery provides a model for clinician - scientists» massive opportunity to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes in the future.&
Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare, and known internationally for his innovative work on improving the quality and safety of health care delivery, comments: «Progress in CF - related care delivery provides a model for clinician - scientists» massive opportunity to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes in the future.&ra
Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare, and known internationally for his innovative work
on improving the quality and safety of
health care delivery, comments: «Progress in CF - related care delivery provides a model for clinician - scientists» massive opportunity to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes in the future.&
health care delivery, comments: «Progress in CF - related care delivery provides a model for clinician - scientists» massive opportunity to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes in the future.&ra
care delivery, comments: «Progress in CF - related
care delivery provides a model for clinician - scientists» massive opportunity to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes in the future.&ra
care delivery provides a model for clinician - scientists» massive opportunity to improve
health care delivery and patient outcomes in the future.&
health care delivery and patient outcomes in the future.&ra
care delivery and patient
outcomes in the future.»
Depression, even when undiagnosed, can have many negative effects
on cardiovascular patients, including poor healthcare experiences, more use of healthcare resources and higher
health costs, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of
Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in quality of care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and policymak
Care and
Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in quality of care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and polic
Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in quality of
care and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and policymak
care and
outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and polic
outcomes research in cardiovascular disease and stroke for researchers, healthcare professionals and policymakers.
Share knowledge and drive the debate
on outcomes research,
health economics and organisation of cancer
care delivery
Drawing together all three pillars of the Summit (
Outcomes Research,
Health Economics of Cancer
Care, Organisation of Cancer
Care Delivery), this concluding session will reflect
on key survivor issues, including as well legal and regulatory matters, such as:
Several performance reporting systems now report publicly
on aspects of quality such as surgical
outcomes, 8 adherence to evidence - based quality measures, 9,10 and patients» assessments of
care, 11 but few public reports about the quality of
health care organizations have also assessed the equity of
care provided by those organizations.
Her basic science research included the scientific investigation of pancreatitis related respiratory failure and her
health services research focused
on the development of a national trauma registry for children and
outcome evaluation of children's trauma - related
care.
Her research interests are focused
on clinical
outcomes and
health care processes for patients with chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.
A combination of positive belief
on the part of your provider and nurturing
care that leaves your amygdala feeling calm and safe has been scientifically proven to improve
health outcomes.