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TLDR: We find the average older adult in traditional Medicare spends 3 weeks per year getting health care, mostly (17 days) ambulatory care like office visits, tests, and treatments.
11% of these adults spent 50+ days per year (!).
acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…
We all know that fentanyl is making the overdose crisis much worse.
But did you know that it's also making buprenorphine — the most popular opioid addiction treatment — harder to use?
I dug into it for @tradeoffspod's first new episode of 2024.
tradeoffs.org/2024/01/25/fen…
Everyone knows NP and PA’s are playing a bigger role in the medical system. But until this study, I didn’t realize how large a fraction of care they provide!
Telemedicine was a crucial stop-gap during the pandemic, but are its best days behind us? Or is there more potential to tap?
Excited to share a new article w/ @Ateevm & @bbrownretail examining the tech, processes, and institutions that can unlock the next chapter of virtual care
Telemedicine was a crucial stop-gap during the pandemic, but are its best days behind us? Or is there more potential to tap?
Excited to share a new article w/ @Ateevm & @bbrownretail examining the tech, processes, and institutions that can unlock the next chapter of virtual care
New in @JAMANetworkOpen: In nat'l Medicare survey, many older adults were personally offered phone visits, or chose phone visits, even when phone & video visits were available.
🧵on results, implications for Medicare/other payers' reimbursement policies
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
Rates of antibiotics received during #COVID-19 outpatient visits (mostly amoxicillin & azithromycin) varied by age, site, and region in this cross-sectional study. @martjm@Ateevm @krayhsr ja.ma/3M1QRFT
Excited to share a new paper today with @McGarryBE and @ashdgandhi published today in @NEJM
TL;DR Nursing homes with higher use of COVID-19 tests for staff had 30% fewer resident cases and 26% fewer deaths than low testing facilities. That's a LOT.
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nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
My first Research Corner for @tradeoffspod discusses new work by @AJHolmgren and others in @jama.
They ask: what happens when a major U.S. health system starts billing patients for portal messages with their clinicians?
Learn more here: tradeoffs.org/2023/03/07/pat…
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