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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.
METHODS:
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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Healthy Oklahoma 2020
A host of organizations in Oklahoma are concerned that the health status of Oklahomans ranks near the bottom of all states in the United States. In a significant effort to improve health status, the Oklahoma State Board of Health convened a broadly based group and charged it with developing a...
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How to Excel at Access — and Why It Matters
Health care spending in the United States totaled $3.3 trillion in 2016, more than double the amount spent in 2000. Twenty percent of the cost went toward physician services, with primary care accounting for approximately 7 percent.
These rising costs have real consequences for patients....
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Buprenorphine to Treat Opioid Use Disorder: A Practical Guide
Opioids were involved in 42,249 deaths in the United States in 2016, and opioid overdoses have quintupled since 1999.1 Among the causes behind these statistics is increased opiate prescribing by physicians—with primary care providers accounting for about one half of opiate prescriptions.2 As a...
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