Journal of general internal medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Barriers of Acceptance to Hospice Care: a Randomized Vignette-Based Experiment.
The per diem financial structure of hospice care may lead agencies to consider patient-level factors when weighing admissions. ⋯ This study suggests that patients receiving expensive and/or complex treatments for palliation may have difficulty accessing hospice.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Perceived Access to Contraception via Telemedicine Among Young Adults: Inequities by Food and Housing Insecurity.
Telemedicine expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, including for contraceptive services. Data are needed to understand whether young people can access telemedicine for contraception, especially in underserved populations. ⋯ Underserved patients are those who could benefit most from the expansion of telemedicine services, yet our findings show that young people experiencing basic needs insecurity perceive the greatest difficulty accessing these services for essential reproductive care.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Development and Validation of the HL6: a Brief, Technology-Based Remote Measure of Health Literacy.
Most health literacy measures require in-person administration or rely upon self-report. ⋯ The HL6 demonstrates adequate reliability and validity in both English and Spanish. This performance-based assessment can be administered remotely using commonly available technologies with fewer logistical challenges than assessments requiring in-person administration.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effect of a Predictive Analytics-Targeted Program in Patients on Opioids: a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.
Risk of overdose, suicide, and other adverse outcomes are elevated among sub-populations prescribed opioid analgesics. To address this, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) developed the Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM)-a provider-facing dashboard that utilizes predictive analytics to stratify patients prescribed opioids based on risk for overdose/suicide. ⋯ Among VHA patients prescribed opioid analgesics, identifying high risk patients and mandating they receive an interdisciplinary case review was associated with a decrease in all-cause mortality. Results suggest that providers can leverage predictive analytic-targeted population health approaches and interdisciplinary collaboration to improve patient outcomes.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Medication Review and Enhanced Information Transfer at Discharge of Older Patients with Polypharmacy: a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Swiss Hospitals.
Medication safety in patients with polypharmacy at transitions of care is a focus of the current Third WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge. Medication review and communication between health care professionals are key targets to reduce medication-related harm. ⋯ ISRCTN18427377, https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN18427377.