Chronic Disease
Our work in Chronic Disease
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Shame Won’t Solve America’s Obesity Crisis: How Congress Can Help
If saving lives is the objective, then logic, clinical evidence and compassion dictate that Medicare should pay for preventing and treating obesity, starting now.
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New Dialysis Studies Inform Delivery of Care, Ways to Improve Patient Outcomes
Researchers analyzed the effects of clinic ownership and dialysis timing on patient outcomes.
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Rates of Eye Care and Diabetic Eye Disease among Insured Patients with Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes
The majority of diabetic patients do not receive adequate eye care within the 5 years after initial diabetes diagnosis despite having insurance.
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Schaeffer Center Economic Modeling Contributes to National Academy Report on Diversity in Clinical Trials
Populations underrepresented in clinical trials face worse health outcomes that will cost the U.S. trillions of dollars over the next three decades.
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The Relationship Between Multimorbidity and Types of Chronic Diseases and Self-Rated Memory
This study explores the impact of multimorbidity and types of chronic diseases on self-rated memory in older adults in the United States.
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Value of Reducing Wait Times for Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Treatment: Evidence From Randomized Controlled Trial Data on Tisagenlecleucel for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
Researchers aimed to quantify the value of reducing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) treatment wait times on patients with refractory and relapsed aggressive blood cancer who can newly gain access to treatment or access treatment earlier in their disease course.
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The Price of Insulin, Explained
This animation explains research by Schaeffer Center experts that offers one of the most comprehensive looks at the insulin distribution chain and shows which players are profiting, and by how much, from selling insulin.
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Improving Care of People with Serious Medical Illness: An Economic Research Agenda for Palliative Care
In 2020, Schaeffer Center established an Advisory Panel on Palliative Care. In this post, the panel outlines next steps to increase the quality of care of frail people with multiple chronic conditions.
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Middlemen, Not Drug Companies, Are Pushing Up Insulin Prices, and Congress Doesn’t Have the Right Plan to Fight Back
Congress should take advantage of the current political climate and start reining in the intermediaries in the drug distribution system.
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Patient and Physician Perspectives On Engaging in Palliative and Healthcare Trials: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Researchers are encountering increasing challenges in recruiting participants for palliative and healthcare research. This paper aims to understand challenges to and methods for engaging physicians and seriously ill patients and their caregivers in research studies.
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