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Extended-Release Formulation and Medication Adherence
Suboptimal adherence to chronic medications undermines treatment effectiveness and costs the U.S. as much as $289 billion annually. This is the first study to analyze the impact of extended-release formulations on long-term adherence.
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A Decade of Research with Impact
From redefining value in cancer treatments to predicting the impact of changes in demographics to enhancing Medicare, the Schaeffer Center does more than inform policy — it helps drive decisions to improve delivery of care, foster innovation and enhance healthcare markets.
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Informing Clinicians of a Patient’s Fatal Overdose Changes Their Prescribing Behavior
When a clinician is given information about a patient’s fatal overdose caused by prescription opioids, they decrease their opioid prescribing.
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Are High-Deductible Plans a Healthy Option for Patients?
High-deductible health plans may have unintended consequences for patients.
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Patients as well as providers must take responsibility in improving healthcare, but human fallibility can impede success. The Schaeffer Center fosters supportive and effective ways to improve the decision-making of all parties for healthier results.
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How to Encourage Vaccine Adoption
How can public health leaders address vaccine hesitancy? Join the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy and the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Policy Initiative for an expert discussion on vaccine adoption.
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Changes in Health Services Use Among Commercially Insured US Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The researchers examine changes in health care use during the first 2 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in March and April of 2020 relative to March and April of 2019 and 2018, and to examine whether changes in use differ by patient’s zip code–level race/ethnicity or income.
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BMJ: What Current and Missing Data Can Teach Us About Medication Errors
The cost of medication errors worldwide exceeds $42 billion, or approximately 5%–6% of all hospitalizations. There are a number of cost-effective strategies that could be deployed to reduce the quantity of adverse drug events.
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Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Response: Early Perceptions of COVID-19 and Self-Reported Social Distancing in the United States
we study individual’s perceptions on COVID-19 and social distancing during the week of March 10–16, 2020, a week when COVID-19 was officially declared to be a pandemic by WHO and when new infections in the US were more than doubling every three days.
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The Need To More Effectively Regulate END Markets: A Primary Public Health Lesson of the US Vaping Associated Lung Injury Outbreak
The designation of END products as “tobacco products” rather than “medical products” in August 2016 meant manufacturers did not have to meet pharmaceutical safety standards; instead, minimal product safety regulations were imposed.
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New Digital Health Project Will Include Traditionally Underrepresented Americans
Ritika Chaturvedi will lead the American Life in Real-time (ALiR) project, which will use digital technologies to create precision public health interventions that focus on reducing health disparities.