Several years ago, OKPRN clinicians identified two key principles and several techniques that make management of prescription refills much easier for practices.
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Unilateral Strength Training Leads to Muscle-Specific Sparing Effects During Opposite Homologous Limb Immobilization
Cross education (CE) occurs after unilateral training whereby performance of the untrained contralateral limb is enhanced. A few studies have shown that CE can preserve or “spare” strength and size of an opposite immobilized limb, but the specificity (i.e., trained homologous muscle and...
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Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with DASH
A condensed version of "Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure With DASH" this easy-to-read fact sheet includes an overview of DASH research findings and suggestions on how to start and stick with a eating plan.
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Management of Outpatient Test Results
From published literature, we identified four key steps in the management of test results:
1. Tracking all results to make sure they are received and reviewed by an appropriate person in the practice.
2. Notification of all patients of both normal and abnormal test results in a...
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Effect of Early Surgery vs Physical Therapy on Knee Function Among Patients With Nonobstructive Meniscal Tears The ESCAPE Randomized Clinical Trial
IMPORTANCE
Despite recent studies suggesting arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) is not more effective than physical therapy (PT), the procedure is still frequently performed in patients with meniscal tears.
OBJECTIVE
To assess whether PT is noninferior to APM for...
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Start-Up and Ongoing Practice Expenses of Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration Interventions in the Advancing Care Together (ACT) Program
PURPOSE:
Provide credible estimates of the start-up and ongoing effort and incremental practice expenses for the Advancing Care Together (ACT) behavioral health and primary care integration interventions.
METHODS:
Expenditure data were collected from 10 practice intervention...
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Clinician Staffing, Scheduling, and Engagement Strategies Among Primary Care Practices Delivering Integrated Care
PURPOSE:
To examine the interrelationship among behavioral health clinician (BHC) staffing, scheduling, and a primary care practice's approach to delivering integrated care.
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Observational cross-case comparative analysis of 17 primary care practices in the United...
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Approaches to Behavioral Health Integration at High Performing Primary Care Practices
INTRODUCTION:
Behavioral health (BH) integration has been proposed as an important strategy to help primary care practices meet the needs of their patient population, but there is little research on the ways in which practices are integrating BH services. This article describes the goals...
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From Our Practices to Yours: Key Messages for the Journey to Integrated Behavioral Health
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The historic, cultural separation of primary care and behavioral health has caused the spread of integrated care to lag behind other practice transformation efforts. The Advancing Care Together study was a 3-year evaluation of how practices implemented integrated care in their...
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