Patient and Physician Behavior
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It’s Worth Challenging That Troubling Medical Bill, Study Finds
Most who sought billing help got some relief, but those who may struggle most are less likely to reach out.
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Schaeffer Institute Launches New Initiative to Improve Public Policy
Climate change, health and food insecurity will be major focuses of a new initiative aimed at creating policies and communication that better fit people’s needs.
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Fitting in? Physician Practice Style After Forced Relocation
Obstetric physician behavior change appears highly malleable and sensitive to the practice patterns of other physicians delivering newborns at the same hospital. Incentives and policies that encourage more appropriate clinical care norms hospital-wide could sharply improve physician treatment decisions, with benefits for maternal and infant outcomes.
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A New Healthcare Valuation Model That Puts Patients First: Generalized Risk Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE)
By recognizing that health is worth more to those who have less, GRACE provides a more equitable approach to value assessment and healthcare investments.
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Risk Preferences Over Health: Empirical Estimates and Implications for Medical Decision-Making
Individuals are risk-seeking at low levels of health and are most risk-averse at perfect health
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A Randomized Trial Looking at Planning Prompts to Reduce Opioid Prescribing
The study confirmed the benefit of planning prompts, and repeat letter exposure among clinicians with poor patient outcomes.
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Want Safer Prescribing? Provide Doctors with a Plan for Helping Patients in Pain
Letters notifying physicians of patient overdose deaths and providing a plan for the future is an effective intervention, according to new USC Schaeffer Center research
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Use by Opioid Prescribers: A Cross-Sectional StudyÂ
The research assessed PDMP use in Minnesota, which requires opioid prescribers to hold accounts and, in most cases, search the PDMP before prescribing, but where enforcement authority is limited
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Why Higher Copayments for Opioids Did Not Reduce Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Greater prescribing of opioids by physicians is widely understood to be the primary driver of the opioid epidemic. Ironically, the introduction of Medicare Part D contributed to the epidemic.
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Context Matters: Using an Evidence to Decision (EtD) Framework to Develop and Encourage Uptake of Opioid Deprescribing Guideline Recommendations at the Point-Of-Care
The context within which evidence-based recommendations are considered, as well the political and health-system environment, can contribute to the success of recommendation implementation.
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