2025
Medicaid Costs and Outcomes for Patients Treated in an Outpatient Telepsychiatry Clinic
Havlik J, Ghomi R, An N, Budhiraja P, Arzubi E. Medicaid Costs and Outcomes for Patients Treated in an Outpatient Telepsychiatry Clinic. JAMA Network Open 2025, 8: e258558. PMID: 40323598, PMCID: PMC12053525, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.8558.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTelepsychiatry clinicRate of admissionCross-sectional studyMedicaid costsEmergency departmentClinical servicesMedicaid patientsHospitalization ratesTelepsychiatry patientsEvidence of cost savingsReduce hospital admissionsInpatient hospitalization ratesClinic patientsAnnual hospitalization rateOutcomes associated with useTelepsychiatry carePropensity-matched controlsTimely carePsychiatric careMain OutcomesCare costsPMPM costsHospital readmissionInpatient hospitalizationTelepsychiatryDecline in Community-Acquired Alveolar Pneumonia Positive for Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Hospitalized Children Following Implementation of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) in Israel
Dagan R, van der Beek B, Grupel T, Greenberg D, Keren-Naus A, Ben-Shimol S, Weinberger D. Decline in Community-Acquired Alveolar Pneumonia Positive for Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Hospitalized Children Following Implementation of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) in Israel. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2025, ciaf102. PMID: 40052957, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaf102.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPneumococcal conjugate vaccineImpact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccinesConjugate vaccineCommunity-acquired alveolar pneumoniaPneumococcal conjugate vaccine implementationImplementation of pneumococcal conjugate vaccinesRespiratory syncytial virusAnnual hospitalization rateCommunity-acquiredAlveolar pneumoniaSyncytial virusPCV13 implementationAnnual incidenceYoung childrenHospitalization ratesIncidenceRSVMonthsVaccineChildrenEpisodesRegression modelsSynergistic rolePCV13Binomial regression models
2021
National Trends and Disparities in Hospitalization for Acute Hypertension Among Medicare Beneficiaries (1999–2019)
Lu Y, Wang Y, Spatz ES, Onuma O, Nasir K, Rodriguez F, Watson KE, Krumholz HM. National Trends and Disparities in Hospitalization for Acute Hypertension Among Medicare Beneficiaries (1999–2019). Circulation 2021, 144: 1683-1693. PMID: 34743531, DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.121.057056.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHigher hospitalization ratesAcute hypertensionHospitalization ratesMedicare feeService beneficiariesBlack adultsSerial cross-sectional analysisCause readmission rateNational hospitalization ratesPrimary discharge diagnosisAnnual hospitalization rateCause mortality ratesPoisson link functionDual-eligible statusMedicare/MedicaidCross-sectional analysisHypertension controlReadmission ratesDischarge diagnosisDiseases codesMedicare denominatorInpatient filesHypertensionInternational ClassificationMedicare beneficiaries
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