The need to create more efficient and coordinated models of care has never been greater. Healthcare providers are already challenged with managing costs and utilization in the wake of declining ...

A central part of quality management involves tracking, identifying and managing changes that occur in a system or process; these are variations. When changes are planned and executed well, the ...

Children in communities with concentrated socioeconomic and structural disadvantage tend to have elevated rates of nonurgent visits to emergency departments (EDs). Using a spatial regression model of ...

Number of prescription medications and overall survival in veterans with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers ...

In recent years, GWAS have greatly extended our knowledge of genetic loci associated with human disease risk and other phenotypes. The output of these studies is a series of SNPs ("GWAS SNPs") ...

Analysis of spending differences among accountable care organizations (ACOs) may help identify cost savings opportunities. We examined the magnitude and sources of spending variation among ACOs over 4 ...